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How to switch from phone to video telehealth on a limited budget

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Most payers reimburse significantly less for a phone visit than a video visit." " Elizabeth Lever, Institute for Family Health. “Our goal was to enable patients to access many of our primary care, mental health and social support services by video or phone while remaining safely at home,” she said.

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QHINs, Health Data Exchange, FHIR, AI and More with CommonWell Health Alliance

Healthcare IT Today

This included an update on CommonWell’s new technical service provider, ELLKAY and their recent designation by the federal government as a Qualified Health Information Network (QHIN). Their membership and clientele have expanded in variety as well as numbers.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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The Pandemic Accelerated Consumers’ Digital Health Tech Ownership As Big Tech Morphs To Big Health

Health Populi

One-fourth of people used video and conference call platforms in the pandemic for the first time, and one-quarter intends to continue using Zoom et. 20% of people used online health services, and 20% intent to keep using them. in the next 12 months. Smartwatches also have the 8th highest purchase intent among U.S.

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3 Ways to Achieve HIPAA-Compliant Communication for Behavioral Health

Healthcare IT Today

Technology plays a crucial role in HIPAA-compliant communication for behavioral health. Embracing Secure EHR Software and Patient Portal Effective EHR software helps ensure HIPAA-compliant interactions. First, email addresses are often mistyped, which can result in dangerous disclosures of protected health information (PHI).

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AWS and 3M Join Forces to Automate Clinical Note Creation

Healthcare IT Today

To learn more about this announcement we sat down with two leaders at 3M and AWS to talk about the collaboration that led to AWS HealthScribe: Detlef Koll, vice president of global research and development for 3M Health Information Systems , and Tehsin Syed, general manager of Health AI at Amazon Web Services.

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CyncHealth Optimizes Health Data Sharing to Enhance the Patient Experience

Healthcare IT Today

Scott Alderman, Vice President of Operations at CyncHealth , wants to provide one-stop access to the longitudinal patient record, while reducing the clicks needed to navigate the electronic health record (EHR). One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging.