Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. “Using Zoom, we were able to conduct HIPAA-compliant telehealth appointments during the first months of the pandemic,” said Ann Tucker, CEO of Portland Community Health Center.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The following is a guest article by Mitchell Perry, VP Compliance & Security at Access In the ever-evolving landscape of healthcare IT in US healthcare frameworks, integrating electronic health records (EHRs) has become a cornerstone for providers. About Mitchell D. Perry Mitchell D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Thanks to insurance companies’ and the governor’s direction, telehealth visits were allowed, which prompted Riad to explore options using the athenaOne Mobile EHR app. For a comprehensive listing compiled by Healthcare IT News , click here. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 3, 2023

The following is a guest article by Terry Ray, SVP, Data Security GTM, and Field CTO at Imperva Despite satisfying regulatory requirements, 93% of healthcare organizations have experienced a data breach within the past three years and 57% have been breached more than five times over that span. Why is Healthcare so Vulnerable?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

"It's no secret the pandemic created new challenges for the healthcare industry, and our providers altered their day-to-day routines to fit COVID-19 requirements," said Jennifer Gruger, telehealth project manager at Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2023

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. New HIPAA Security Rule – and Enforcement – Is Coming in 2024. Read more… QHIN Commentary at the ONC Annual Meeting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The clinic was notified about a year and a half ago that its current EHR vendor was no longer going to support the application, and that its current hardware components were expiring. Charles Health System, the Bend clinic installed an Epic EHR. Through a partnership with local St. It went live on Epic on January 23, 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. ” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

TriHealth providers preferred EHR integration, as it alleviates the operational burden for front office staff and healthcare providers conducting telehealth services. The final component – and the one most important to TriHealth – was that the platform had to be easy to use for both healthcare providers and patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

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… Making Healthcare App Development and FHIR Data Access Easy. Read more… Protecting Your Organization From a Hidden HIPAA Threat.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Verisma HITRUST® certified technology integrates with existing EHRs and portals for advanced automation and transparency uniquely designed for release of information (ROI), self-serve request tracking, and audits. Our highly trained health information management experts help you increase efficiency and remain compliant with HIPAA regulations.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

that are in the process of adopting or have implemented electronic health record (EHR) systems. Paper documents continue to be part of the healthcare document workflow, and oftentimes, it’s tricky integrating paper and digital content while streamlining daily operations and securing sensitive patient data to meet HIPAA compliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“We quickly realized we needed to adopt an enterprise-class, scalable, secure solution that would meet the care delivery needs of our patients and providers while continuing to provide the quality of care we were accustomed to,” said W. Tight Epic EHR integration imperative. Glenn Hilburn, RN, Grady Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Based on Twilio’s Programmable Video API, the service will give healthcare professionals the ability to launch video visits with patients and to update clinical documentation and review patient histories within Epic EHR workflows. Kaiser Permanente already uses the company to optimize patient communications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

Azalea Health is a health IT vendor that offers an EHR and telehealth tech, and is offering clients free telehealth services for one year to fight the pandemic. "Another draw toward this telehealth solution was its HIPAA compliance," she added. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“The Caregility technology offered a HIPAA-compliant, two-way, audio/video solution,” said Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, eICU and cardiac ICU operations manager at Geisinger. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies. 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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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 2, 2023

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. At HLTH, members of the Healthcare IT Today community told us about the problems the industry isn’t paying enough attention to.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

We primarily use a HIPAA-compliant Zoom system along with our Epic EHR to conduct our telehealth operations,” she said. The institute already had an existing HIPAA-compliant Zoom account and it already was on the Epic EHR. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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). Unlike EMRs, requests for access to EHR records can be made by other medical centers. To seamlessly obtain information from various systems, healthcare data exchange standards are essential.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"But it also adds a higher level of intensity to meeting patients' needs in a more immediate way and with the best solutions available." The platform and the training staff provided gave the hospital the agility to rapidly meet patients' changing needs. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

"Our program uses a comprehensive and coordinated approach of clinical operations, EHR integration, mobile technology, best-practices algorithms and population health monitoring to address this key contributor to maternal morbidity and mortality." " MEETING THE CHALLENGE. versus 51.4%; p<0.001). ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2020

" He said those devices must also have intelligence built into them to help filter all this incoming data and guide providers or care coordinators to activities or events that requires their attention – otherwise, the data becomes noise to providers and it gets ignored, similar to alert fatigue with EHRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say. HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “There was only one practical option: Rapid implementation of HIPAA-compliant telemedicine workflows,” Truesdell said. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“This acceleration also was made available by the opportunities to be reimbursed for telemedicine-related services and relaxed CMS guidelines that waived penalties for HIPAA violations against healthcare providers that serve patients in good faith through everyday communications technologies.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. Privacy features for HIPAA compliance would mean means and features that allow organizations to exclude PHI from data collection or redact the PHI to make it anonymized.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 3, 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. The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time. the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO 27001/27002, SOC2, etc.)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

In your hands-on experience working with healthcare provider organizations and IT, what changes have you observed in patient portals and telehealth visits since COVID-19 broke? We set up virtual meetings where we could chat on progress and deal with any issues that occurred. Most staff supporting this effort were virtual.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

We are taking lessons learned and building them into our new Amwell platform with full integration with our Cerner EHR in 2022." For that reason, MCHS launched with a HIPAA/HITECH-compliant platform it already had in place, WebEx. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

"Our first choice was to have a secure integrated solution with our EHR," Ajmal said. "Ryan Health uses eClinicalWorks as our EHR. The Doximity platform met the organization's requirements, was available at no cost and was HIPAA-compliant. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. The telehealth technology Happy Kids uses is HIPAA-compliant Zoom and is bundled with its Equality Health services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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