Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data. One area of particular interest is telehealth use.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. On this note, Karsten Russell-Wood, portfolio leader for post-acute and home at Philips, shares his viewpoints with Healthcare IT News on the biggest priorities to ensure telehealth is sustained long term.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 7, 2020

“In mid- March, the institute began transitioning our services to telehealth whenever possible, in an effort to abide by Governor Cuomo’s stay-at-home order and keep our staff and patients safe, although these services are limited by our current equipment and software capabilities.” services, using free, individual accounts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

“This solution was a good start and allowed for our doctors to deliver the beginnings of telehealth at Maple Knoll. As time progressed, our doctors from UC Health also began using a third solution, Doximity, to deliver virtual visits.” “The third solution in the works is the telehealth solution itself,” he said.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. Clinical sites that had long ignored the appeals of telehealth advocates suddenly adopted virtual visits. Improved workflows.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. This is because health data continues to move away from the barriers of manual approach and towards online platforms. Jamie Blackport, Head of Privacy Hub by Datavant at Datavant.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Telehealth and RPM. Health Equity and SDoH. Healthcare AI. Business of Healthcare and Value Based Care. Healthcare Workforce.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. All of this year’s 2023 health IT predictions: Healthcare Security and Risk. Telehealth and RPM. Health Equity and SDoH. David Navarro, Senior Director of Data Science at Harmony Healthcare IT. Elizabeth A.

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E-CareManagement

OCTOBER 19, 2020

While there have been many events on interoperability and data sharing, what’s unique here is our focus on the BUSINESS rationale for health data sharing. • Hoarding data is not only bad for business but can be catastrophic in a crisis. This shift creates a business imperative to share information, not to hoard it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2021

In many areas of health IT, experimentation is good and may ultimately be to the benefit of users. On the other hand, when it comes to telehealth security, it’s looking more and more as though establishing routine practices and following security best practices is a good idea.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2018

The ONC study revealed that while a growing group of patients access their electronic health records, 1 in 4 patients did not do so due to privacy and security concerns. Baking in privacy by design must be the go-to strategy for health IT developers to bolster patient trust in their electronic health records.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

A new report from Stanford Medicine suggests that after years of holding it at arms’ length, physicians are becoming more comfortable with the use of patient-generated health data.

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FierceHealthIT

MAY 2, 2018

Google and Fitbit are launching a new partnership to feed wearable data into EHRs; telehealth companies including American Well announced several new acquisitions; the VA-Cerner deal is being held up by a mysterious physician who has the ear of President Trump; plus more news of note from the health IT industry.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Philips surveyed health care professionals and consumers living in 15 countries, from North America to Asia, and found that these health systems share one over-arching objective: to provide quality care with improved experiences for both patients and healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Research from athenahealth about telehealth usage throughout the pandemic found that nearly 1 in 4 patients (24%) used telehealth specifically to avoid an in-person visit. In addition, nearly 1 in 3 patients used telehealth to manage a chronic condition, with 23% scheduling appointments and another 9% opting for ad hoc check-ins.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Last month, a document synthesized a vision for transforming health and care in a digital single market , adopted by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC). Over one-half of EU health citizens are concerned about the risks of health data privacy breaches and cybersecurity. One of many questions for U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT Project Management. They also touch on the role of AI and telehealth in the organization. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024. Read more… Health Data Sharing Impacts How Clinicians Care for Patients.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2020

Six in ten people are open to health and wellness services via virtual channels, over half like the idea of remote monitoring linking with at-home devices, and 1 in 2 people would be open to routine appointments through telehealth. In the case of the Rule, the data will be provided to us via our smartphones.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

APIs can enable “Data liberación,” a concept proposed by Todd Park when he worked in the Obama administration. Without securing patients’ personal health data leveraging APIs, those intimate details are highly hackable explained in All That we Let In , a report from Knight Ink and Appr0ov.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 13, 2023

This time, the FTC has issued a proposed order demanding BetterHelp stop sharing consumers’ health data. million to settle charges that it shared sensitive health data, including data on consumers’ mental health challenges, with third parties including Facebook and Snapchat.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The release of final rules from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT regarding the 21st Century Cures Act have shined a renewed spotlight on patients' ability to take control of their own health data. "I think we all realize that telehealth absolutely took off in the COVID-19 pandemic," said Bates.

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Lloyd Price

MAY 19, 2024

Data security: Sensitive health data needs robust security measures. HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. Data security and privacy: As rPPG collects personal health data, robust security measures are crucial to ensure user privacy.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Data Policy in the Context of Telehealth Policy The ATA has been publishing policy statements on complex technical topics since they launched a good 30 years ago. In 2022, it became clear that technical developments were having a large impact on social issues and would inevitably come to affect telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It shall identify and classify the data collected and develop customised risk management strategies for each type of health data. "For example, [medical devices for remote care] connected to a network are at higher risk of data leakage compared to medical devices that are not connected to a network.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Senators Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin, and Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, introduced the Health Data Use and Privacy Commission Act this week, aimed at starting the process of modernizing health data use and privacy policies. The federal government has taken steps to align privacy policies with the boom in health technologies.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

JUNE 30, 2015

If you read our blog post 5 Top Telemeds Trend of 2015 , you know that telehealth is slowly revolutionizing the healthcare world for the better. From remote patient monitoring to distance education, telehealth practices and services are benefiting not only healthcare providers and organization but also patients. Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 24, 2023

has admitted that it inappropriately shared private health data on 3.1 million of its users, a problem that arose from its use of pixel-based tracking technologies which gather and share data on people who visit the site. Online mental provider Cerebral, Inc. The FTC’s proposed order would impose a $7.8

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2018

Those consumers who have adopted some form of digital health tool, whether wearable tech, telehealth visit, or mobile app, seem satisfied with their experiences, which is another key aspect of the so-called “digital transition.” It’s good news and bad news that physicians are so highly trusted as health data shepherds.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2021

During his confirmation hearings in February, Becerra signaled his support for telemedicine and other digital health tools. "If we don't learn from COVID how telehealth can help save lives, then we're in trouble," he said. Enhance HHS authority to determine appropriate telehealth services and providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

Read more… Understanding MEDITECH’s Culture and Approach to Health IT. Read more… Giving Patients Control of Reproductive Health Data. Read more… Building a Roadmap for Telehealth’s Long Haul. Read more… Helping Rural Health Close the Cybersecurity Gap.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

Telehealthcare isn’t going anywhere While some often bill telehealth as a lesser version of in-person care, it’s a versatile solution that can help reduce healthcare inequality, increase accessibility, and engage a new demographic with practitioners. This addresses practical constraints and champions a more accessible healthcare experience.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Rock Health’s research has tracked peoples’ use of telemedicine, wearable technology, digital health tracking, and online health information since 2015, and the results this round show relative flattening of adoption across these various tools. What do health trackers track, then? Samsung down 4 points.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Improve health care for all New Yorkers, 2.

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Redox

JULY 31, 2023

Get the details Health plan costs expected to increase by 7% PwC researchers predict 2024 health plan costs will climb higher than in the previous two years. Read more Information blockers face stiff penalties Certified health IT developers, HIEs, and HINs are subject to violation penalties starting on September 1, 2023.

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Lloyd Price

APRIL 13, 2024

Our lineup includes a deep dive into Europe’s current regulatory landscape, including the AI Act, the European Health Data Space and the European Recovery and Resilience Fund. We’ll also help you make sense of all today’s trends in health technology—from machine learning to digital maturity and telehealth.

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