Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

HIPAA, everyone’s favorite scapegoat for all (OK, most) of the ills of the modern healthcare-industrial complex, is perpetually called out as being in dire need of a rewrite. The HIPAA RFI came next. A digression: As the health wonks and policy nerds reading this are already aware, HIPAA is a horse of a different color.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

Verisma and ScanSTAT merge With automation, patient experience tools and expanded compliance management services, the combined Verisma aims to deliver a simplified, customizable release of information platform for healthcare. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience. Advanced device integration will allow data flow between the providers' EHR and patients' personal devices. From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In Europe, this is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), in America, it’s HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act). In contrast, Electronic Medical Records capture information about specific visits to a doctor or medical facility, circulating within one institution.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. The fact is that HIPAA may not cover all of these data flows.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Yes, wearable devices used in healthcare can involve telehealth if protected health information (PHI) is transmitted from the device to the clinician or, for example, to a clinician’s electronic health record (EHR). To properly transmit images with PHI would be to use a HIPAA-compliant texting service or EHR.

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Health Populi

MARCH 4, 2018

Jefferson Health System would fall into Tier 1 in Kaufman Hall’s segmentation because they’ve prioritized meeting consumer expectations of top strategic importance. I featured Neil’s and the @DICEGRP team’s work in my paper written for Progress Health Cloud, Putting the Health of Consumers in Their Hands. .

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 12, 2023

At the same time, healthcare systems must meet the rising demand from patients for a personalized, tech-enabled care experience. From telemedicine and AI-enabled devices to integrations with EHRs, data is at the center of it all and needs to be accessible from an uptime, resiliency, and privacy perspective.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 2024

For example, HHS is proposing to update the HIPAA Security Rule in 2024 to strengthen requirements for HIPAA regulated entities to safeguard electronic health information from cybersecurity threats. The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Further, state-by-state laws requiring in-person meetings between psychiatric nurse practitioners and psychiatrist collaborators should be reexamined as these can safely take place over video conferences. Healthcare IT systems, especially EHRs, played a key role in supporting documentation with the use of macros, smart phrases, and templates.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 10, 2024

The system is customizable to meet the unique needs of individual patients and healthcare organizations. How DrKumo RPM works DrKumo RPM works by leveraging connected devices, such as wearable sensors and mobile applications, to continuously monitor patient health data.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

“This is about improving patient engagement, which should lead to better health outcomes and lower costs,” Ananatraman said. Another Alexa project coming from Northwell will allow doctors and nurses to ask Alexa for details on a patient’s electronic health record. The current pilot is expected to end in April or May.

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Advanced Medical Reviews

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Electronic health record (EHR) management, while almost universally adopted in the last decade due to regulatory and consumer demands, is a top concern for healthcare CIOs. Apple is expected to offer a competitive solution for optimizing EHR interoperability that maintains the security of protected health information (PHI).

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 25, 2024

Ethical Considerations and Patient Privacy Ensuring data confidentiality and consent Maintaining patient privacy and obtaining informed consent are essential ethical considerations in the implementation of DrKumo’s system, ensuring that patient data is protected and used responsibly.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The app shows heart rate, calories burned, cholesterol and other important vital information, as well as results of lab tests, diagnoses and medical examinations. American Well is integrated with Apple Health to allow telehealth physicians to immediately access and track a patient’s health information with just one click.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

The goal was – and still is – preventing costly duplicate healthcare expenses and taking better, more informed care of patients. “The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

As part of the NETCCN project, Avel eCARE worked collaboratively to develop a cloud-based, low-resource, standalone health information management system to create and coordinate flexible and extendable "virtual critical care wards." How did the vendors and NETCCN meet the challenge of COVID-19 and other critical care needs?

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GlobalMed

APRIL 7, 2020

If you have a current urgent need in a specific clinical area, such as evaluating patients for COVID-19 , you can quickly stand up a program to meet that need. We want EHR interoperability. Can telemedicine integrate with my EHR? Your solution should be HIPAA compliant and ideally hosted in a HITRUST-certified environment.

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care innovations

JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. EHR is a synonym for EMR.).

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This data segmentation hampers the holistic understanding of patient health and impedes timely and coordinated care delivery. The siloed nature of such data repositories can be attributed to various factors, including using different EHR systems, varying data capture standards, and a historical lack of emphasis on system interoperability.

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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." By contrast, there are HIPAA-compliant ways to use texting to convey information to patients. "If there is an opportunity to eliminate friction, take it," he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

Traditionally, we think about interoperability as HIEs (health information exchanges), but in 2024 I expect to see new models emerge. I see interoperability as an enabler to accelerate digital health at a lower cost, reducing the friction between being budget-conscious and adopting innovations. And, we don’t want them to.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. The main reason: 60% say navigation services employer’s existing carriers don’t meet employer needs.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 19, 2023

For example, when patient data is exposed, criminals could gain access to personal information such as Social Security numbers or financial details, leading to identity theft or fraud. Additionally, if protected health information (PHI) is compromised, it could lead to a breach of privacy for those affected by the attack.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

New York City's NYU Langone Health had been investing in telemedicine for several years before the COVID-19 pandemic and had always been keenly aware of the important role technology would play in the future of healthcare. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

Microsoft took a step to address health data interoperability with Azure API for FHIR in 2019. The company's next evolution of that journey is Azure Health Data Services.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, in the March 15 Spokesman-Review of four deaths confirmed by the Department of Veterans Affairs investigation into its recent purchase and continued request for funding the $10B Oracle Cerner EHR system installed in Skoane in 2020. Cerebral was investigated by the Office for Civil Rights for alleged HIPAA violations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

They improve their health in real time with an easy-to-use smartphone application, and catch risk in time. Employers and payers may offer telehealth options that allow the team member to meet with their doctor via video. iRhythm Technologies. Another product is called the eCareCompanion patient application.

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Lloyd Price

AUGUST 6, 2018

Blockchain's interoperability could underpin data exchange, serving as an alternative to today's health information exchanges (HIEs); essentially, it would act as a mesh network for transmitting secure, near real-time patient data for healthcare providers, pharmacies, insurance payers and clinical researchers, according to IDC.

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