Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

" Heritage Clinic uses the Doxy.me, Zoom and Microsoft Teams video conferencing systems to facilitate telehealth. "In the beginning of the pandemic, we also used FaceTime and Duo under the HIPAA waiver," East recalled. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. But the tools have to be properly calibrated. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Geisinger already was using a telehealth ICU system from vendor Caregility and in-room AV equipment in its ICUs. “The Caregility technology offered a HIPAA-compliant, two-way, audio/video solution,” said Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, eICU and cardiac ICU operations manager at Geisinger. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Telehealth has helped achieve that goal. “Telehealth provides a convenient and completely safe interaction for both the counselor and the client,” said Derrick Sledge, a licensed professional counselor at Christian Counseling Associates. The vendor also offers integrated telehealth within the system. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. Like telehealth, RPM can really improve care, gain efficiencies and trim costs. No, telehealth alone is not enough.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

THE PROBLEM Prior to 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, there were federal and state policies in place that discouraged FQHCs like Ryan Health from adopting telehealth services due to payment restrictions. Besides the telehealth platform, we lacked webcams and laptops for providers. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“In order to protect patients and staff from COVID-19 exposure, within a matter of days, Upstate created a telemedicine program for the entire institution, consisting of more than 200 sites,” said Mary Ann Gross, assistant director for healthcare information systems at Upstate Medical University. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

They'll leverage AI Companion to surface knowledge from meetings, chats, whiteboards, emails and Zoom documents – another new tool announced at this week's virtual conference – and, with users’ permission, from third-party applications, the company said. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

Before the pandemic struck earlier this year, Central Kansas Mental Health Center in Salina, Kansas, had a small telehealth setup that started out of necessity over a lack of doctors available in its rural area. Central Kansas Mental Health Center’s telehealth setup was all done in-house by its IT staff. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

Healthcare IT News sat down with Lisa Lindgren, vice president of clinical operations at Avel eCARE, to learn more about NETCNN and telemedicine in the age of COVID-19. In June 2020, Avel and ViTel Net, a telehealth technology company, were awarded funds as a team to compete in the NETCCN project, provided by the U.S. HIPAA Compliant.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. "Then we had to ensure the correct coding and documentation was satisfactory for insurance billing purposes." " They also had to ensure that all staff were aware of the types of telehealth visits that were beneficial to patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services indicated that it would waive penalties for good faith use of non-HIPAA compliant video conferencing software during the nationwide public health emergency." " This was particularly important, Uscher-Pines noted, as many HIPAA compliant software became overwhelmed with users.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The software also enables direct communication between clinicians and patients, covering a wide range of healthcare needs. Additionally, eNOW offers patient self-scheduling and document management, along with ePrescribe capabilities for efficient prescription management.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

"Telehealth technology opened the doors to new hope that we would survive, and that we would have the ability to serve our patients' needs in a safe and convenient way." With telehealth technology, they could be attended from the comfort of their own home and not risk getting exposed to illness in the lobby.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 30, 2020

COVID-19 forced the healthcare industry to change how healthcare is delivered, with telehealth taking a front row seat. Health information management has seen many new processes quickly evolve during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rules […].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Read more… Talking Trends on the Healthcare IT Today Podcast. Read more… Lessons From an International Telehealth Deployment.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

After identification and verification of eligibility, the healthcare provider places an order in the EHR with the patient's phone number, which automatically generates a text message to enroll the patient. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. versus 51.4%; p<0.001). ADVICE FOR OTHERS. Focus on Health Equity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

There are many vendors with electronic health records systems on the health IT market today, including Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, DrChrono, eClinicalWorks, Epic, Greenway Health, HCS, Meditech and NextGen Healthcare. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Eleanor conducts calls in both English and Spanish and provides care coordinators with a HIPAA-compliant transcript after each call. Patient answers provide care coordinators with information about their caseload and program-requirement needs for assessment, care plans and documentation. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

The practice was an early adopter of telehealth back in 2010, implementing it as a way to care for people unable to attend in-person sessions. Nor was it HIPAA-compliant, a major concern. "But security can't be an afterthought in healthcare, even with telehealth." THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2021

He believes this is just the beginning for telehealth and that this style of healthcare delivery will only accelerate in growth and evolve in the years ahead. Healthcare IT News sat down with Yoder to discuss these trends and expectations and get him to offer an in-depth look at the future of telemedicine. Please elaborate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In order to fulfill GHC’s mission of service to low-income individuals and families and continue to uphold values of being accessible, consistent and responsive to community needs, GHC’s senior management and board of directors made the decision to implement telehealth services. “No dual documentation was required.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. "We also created mobile bedside video carts that allowed physicians to speak to patients virtually from a safe distance and document their symptoms in Epic's MyChart." MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Like many physician groups before the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center only used telehealth in a limited way. As the pandemic hit, and the group's physicians needed to leverage existing telehealth tools, staff identified significant room for improvement. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

" Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model. " Integrating telehealth into the EHR. But physicians are required to use two separate systems: one to see and talk to patients, and one to log onto in order to document the visit. In May, it was 50-50.

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The Digital Health Corner

AUGUST 7, 2017

The FDA has previously released guidance documents on Mobile Medical Apps and General Principles of Software Validation. It will address lingering issues such as multifunctional software (technology which has software qualifying as a medical device combined with that which doesn’t).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

This is the ninth installment in Healthcare IT News ' Health IT Lessons Learned in the COVID-19 Era feature story series. Rapidly prototyping telehealth. For Cherry of Lexington Medical Center, the lessons he and his team learned when rapidly prototyping their telehealth solution were very important. Christopher J.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Guillaume de Zwirek, CEO of Well Health, told Healthcare IT News that he believes the best strategy is to "meet patients where they are." " "I don't think healthcare really understands what true patient engagement is," said de Zwirek, whose company offers patient communication tools. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

To help healthcare CIOs, CMOs and other leaders find connected health devices and RPM technologies, Healthcare IT News has compiled this comprehensive listing of vendors. Eko’s telehealth and remote patient monitoring platform powers virtual cardiac and pulmonary exams by facilitating stethoscope and ECG live streaming.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2024

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Both HIPAA and related state laws create strict guidelines and restrictions on collecting, using, and maintaining patient-protected health information.

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