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Remote therapeutic monitoring is reimbursable – here's what you need to know

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With the new CPT codes, providers can get reimbursed for: Educating patients on how to use a remote care-management platform. Monitoring a platform's alerts and patients' use of remote education. Providers now can get reimbursed for educating patients on how to use remote care management platforms.

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Telehealth boosts continuity of care, patient-provider relationships at Ellis Medicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. “As the level of comfort and popularity grew among patients and providers, we expanded services to include pre-op appointments, sick and same-day appointments, annual wellness visits and new patients who needed to establish care.”

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Digital care platform helps doc trim costs, increase patients and boost revenue

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Siddiqi's goal was to effectively move more elements of in-person care into the home, including virtual check-ins, education and physical therapy. With effective digital and remote care via remote therapeutic monitoring, he has been able to solve more substantial problems.

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Telehealth, linked with Allscripts EHR and app, helps keep docs in business

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"During these visits, we pulled the Allscripts ProMobile application to see the records of those patients and document a quick assessment and plan," Raman explained. Telehealth, the patient portal and mobile check-in allowed them flexibility in caring for their patients. " MARKETPLACE. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Telehealth, linked to an EHR, drastically reduces no-show rate at Garfield Health Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

GHC decided to use the OTTO Health telehealth platform, which would seamlessly integrate into the organization’s NextGen electronic health record system and enable GHC to quickly and efficiently launch telehealth services, said Lionel Yu, chief operating officer at Garfield Health Center. MARKETPLACE.

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Home-Based Care Provides Powerful Example for Harnessing Technology Across the Care Continuum

Healthcare IT Today

Virtual care nurses can answer medical questions and provide expert guidance in real-time. Those interactions can not only save time, resources, and expenses, but they are also documented in the patient’s medical record so they’re available to the patient’s full care team.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). ONC has approved six standards as part of its annual annual Standards Version Advancement Process.

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