Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

"Some 70% to 80% of these DHA residents are established patients at Denver Health. "The majority of these patients are racial/ethnic minority populations (72%), dually eligible for Medicare/Medicaid, with multi-morbidity and high healthcare needs, and lower health and digital literacy," she added.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

In the context of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), both covered entities and business associates play crucial roles in protecting the privacy and security of Protected Health Information (PHI). Covered entities must be prepared to respond quickly and efficiently in a breach Staff Training.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JUNE 3, 2023

In the context of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), both covered entities and business associates play crucial roles in protecting the privacy and security of Protected Health Information (PHI). Covered entities must be prepared to respond quickly and efficiently in a breach Staff Training.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 5, 2019

In January, 2019, the coordinating body for Health IT (ONC) released interoperability advice, connecting people to their care , that requires representing the relationship between a patient and another person (provider, caregiver, or family member). Medicare Advantage changes may revive tech-enabled home care services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

How to manage the new 'data tsunami' As providers rushed to roll out new telehealth services in response to the pandemic, many weren't – and many still aren't – prepared to manage the upsurge of new data, and new data types, streaming into their electronic health records. How to train employees for the new normal.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Many hospitals, health systems, and health plans still don’t have employees trained and don’t have the proper policies, procedures, and tech tools in place to be compliant, even with the two years of runway that was provided by legislators. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

This article also serves as a case study for PART-I of our article series, which identifies and explains the leading federal and state laws requiring healthcare language services for practitioners who serve Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries or those who work in federally funded settings.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

How do Amazon and One Medical protect private health information? The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) governs what One Medical, Amazon, and others can do with Protected Health Information and this includes information like medication history, medical conditions, and treatment information.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to its CPT codes to incentivize more providers and clinics to deploy remote patient monitoring (RPM). For an RPM program, this refers to billing clients for remotely monitoring their health while providing healthcare. Check with your payers.

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Continue Education Journal

JUNE 12, 2019

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which will help ensure providers have the ability to set patients up with proper at-home treatment and monitoring systems. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Like many patients in her situation, she is covered by Medicaid and Medicare. Amy receives care at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), built to provide whole person care for patients like herself. Train staff to help patients use EHR portals and telemedicine devices. Related Topics.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Prolog from Dr. Sands: I trained in clinical informatics because of my belief that we needed to better empower healthcare professionals with information technology so they could take better care of patients, and spent many years creating and implementing these tools. Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Thirty-six percent cited lack of reimbursement, 23 percent lacked funding for equipment, and 21 percent lacked training for providing telehealth. Payment parity —where telehealth is reimbursed at the same level as an in-person visit— is a crucial issue that must be addressed and instituted beyond the current public health emergency.

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Insulin Nation

AUGUST 20, 2015

The report announced goals of establishing a unique device identification system, incorporating collection and analysis of electronic health information, and developing national and international device registries for selected medical devices.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The initial $30 billion was allocated based on the providers’ 2019 Medicare fee for services payments. The next $20 billion will also reach providers who receive only a small amount of Medicare revenue, e.g., children’s hospitals. Distribution will begin next week based on operating expenses. Care for Uninsured.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The initial $30 billion was allocated based on the providers’ 2019 Medicare fee for services payments. The next $20 billion will also reach providers who receive only a small amount of Medicare revenue, e.g., children’s hospitals. Distribution will begin next week based on operating expenses. Care for Uninsured.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

The specialty care programs are delivered remotely by Biofourmis’ trained health navigators, who are frontline care coordinators, as well as a multidisciplinary team of licensed clinicians, including physicians, nurses and advanced practice providers.

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Clear Arch Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Over recent years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have created and amended codes allowing for remote patient monitoring (RPM) reimbursement. The CPT codes apply to both standard Medicare Part B and Medicare Advantage programs. What is their training policy for your staff? . Am J Prev Med.

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GlobalMed

JULY 15, 2019

Patients suffer longer and pay more when doctors miss key medical information and provide an incorrect diagnosis. Given that some new Medicare rules for reimbursement mandate a visit minimum of 20 minutes, it’s clear that telemedicine can help many patients enjoy increased attention. Beyond 11 Seconds.

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Mend

JANUARY 31, 2024

Welcome to the inaugural post of our six-part blog series, unraveling the intricacies of becoming a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC). In this series, we will navigate through the essential requirements outlined by the Protecting Access to Medicare Act (PAMA) to shed light on the path toward achieving CCBHC certification.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 2017, the health system – which has 100 continuing care locations, including home care, hospice, PACE programs and senior living facilities – was in a bind, facing double-digit hospital readmissions of 16% across its high-risk Medicare population. THE PROBLEM. Trinity needed to reduce readmissions to single digits.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

IllumiCare showed that its Smart Ribbon platform helped collect data on care gaps at the point of care, leading to a 25% increase in recapture rate for one health plan. Overall, 31% of users achieved a Medicare Advantage Star rating of 4 or more. Wellstar Health System expanded its use of Moth+Flame VR training technology.

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GlobalMed

MAY 12, 2020

Many restrictions have been lifted and providers can now offer telehealth services to Medicare patients and be paid equitably for a virtual visit just like a face-to-face visit. Its slow adoption rates have more to do with limiting regulations, especially around reimbursement , than with a desire to advance healthcare delivery options.

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LinkousThink

APRIL 19, 2010

Assurance of quality The doomsday scenario is that a physician from out of state that is not adequately trained or is not in good standing would provide inadequate care for a patient. The only substantive differences are in the number of years required for postgraduate training (1 or 2 years and generally 3 years for graduates of non-U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2019

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Politics underpin what’s happening in health plans in the public sector, and I spoke a bit about Medicare and Medicaid. There’s surely lots of data to mine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Telehealth technology, such as virtual nurse assistants and chatbots, facilitate self-service pre-screenings, automate health-information sharing, and assist with diagnostics, freeing up provider time to focus on more patients. Reduced healthcare costs. In the U.S.,

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