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How one physician practice was transformed by EHR-embedded telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. But then his EHR vendor, athenahealth, recently launched athenaTelehealth. The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine.

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Temple uses $1M of FCC telehealth funding for virtual care platform, tablets and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than 85% of the patients served by Temple are covered by government programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Patients dually eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid make up roughly half of the Medicare inpatient base. More than 40% of total inpatient cases include a behavioral health diagnosis.

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Featured Health IT Job: Lead Data Architect – Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

We combine a Medicare ACO, virtual and in-home doctors’ office, and a digital health platform to equip our network of physicians with everything they need to be successful in caring for their patients and staying ahead in a rapidly changing healthcare system.

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Health Is Social – The Social Determinants of Health at HIMSS19

Health Populi

That magic wand would wish for clinicians to ask patients and caregivers about their lives, divining SDoH challenges to include in the full profile of the person in her/his EHR. need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? What does “de-identification” mean in this scenario?

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

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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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

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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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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