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HIPAA Enforcement Discretion Offered by OCR for Online or Web-Based Scheduling Apps Used for COVID-19 Vaccination Appointments

Healthcare IT Today

OCR has done a lot around HIPAA including the enforcement discretion around HIPAA penalties associated with telehealth. Of course, Mitch Parker pointed out what the enforcement discretion really means and that the […].

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Vital’s Scientific Publication on Sepsis Paves Way for Predictive Analytics Tools

Digital Health Global

The paper focuses on sepsis prediction, marking a crucial step in Vital’s ongoing commitment to delivering solutions that drive better patient outcomes while providing a positive patient experience. This opens new avenues for using unstructured data to drive better patient outcomes. And we’re improving outcomes as well.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience.

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How to Improve Patient Satisfaction in Virtual Care

Mend

We define patient satisfaction as the measure of how well a patient perceives the level of care they receive from you. There is a debate about the connection between the patient experience and health outcomes. When patients visit you in your in-person office, it’s a private, intimate meeting. Schedule a Demo.

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The Digital Consumer, Increasingly Connected to Health Devices; Parks Associates Kicking Off #CES2021

Health Populi

Privacy literacy, understanding HIPAA and the importance of personal health data security and control; and, of course, Foundational literacy – the reading, writing, and arithmetic basics that form traditional definitions of “literacy.”

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The Importance of Patient Portal Usability

Healthcare IT Today

Usability can be tracked over time to see how often patients log in relative to the number of appointments they have, which device they use, the number of interactions with features, and how long they spend in the portal. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.