TheraNest

MARCH 18, 2020

If your client’s private health information is compromised due to using a non-HIPAA compliant telehealth platform, the consequences for your client are still the same even if you do not get fined. Private health information that is compromised may result in economic harm, embarrassment, or discrimination for the client.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information. She shares several popular and impactful use cases, including how they’re looking at provider and payer collaboration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In the latest Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed for the first time a set of CPT codes for remote therapeutic monitoring. These codes, according to the proposal, are intended to be used to understand the effectiveness of and the patient's response to a prescribed therapy.

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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. Amwell’s Online Care Group (OCG) is an online medical practice that connects providers with patients through live video visits.

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Digital Health Global

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The on-demand virtual services are accessible through the One Medical app (at no additional cost), featuring 24/7/365 on-demand video chats, secure provider messaging, “Treat Me Now” assessments for common health concerns, easy vaccine and medical record access, prescription renewals, and proactive reminders for follow-up care and referral needs.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

Technical literacy, such as knowing how to use devices and interact with electronic health record (EHR) portals and video interfaces. These three components are known as digital health readiness – and when it comes to underserved patients, much of their readiness is limited by social determinants of health.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

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. It’s not just web analytics and ads that are an issue but even things like maps and videos hosted on a website.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

The Alliance for Integrated Care of New York (AICNY) oversees the healthcare needs of roughly 6,200 dually eligible Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Many AICNY beneficiaries reside in group homes and use Federally Qualified Community Health Centers. THE PROBLEM.

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InTouch Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Remote patient monitoring (RPM), or monitoring the health of a patient from a remote location, is changing the way providers think about healthcare. Using a range of wearable devices and live video and audio, providers can use this technology to ensure their patients are adhering to prescribed treatment methods and recovering as planned.

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In Hand Health

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

trillion selfies, posted about 6,000 tweets every second, and watched almost five billion YouTube videos. Across the medical landscape, technology like video chat and real-time virtual visits are taking hold at a furious pace. Just last year, we took 1.5 Instead of asking “What’s next?” PT clinics should be asking “What now?”.

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

For Medicare, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded access to telehealth beyond designated rural areas, loosened HIPAA requirements around telehealth platforms, and instituted parity in reimbursement with in-person visits. At least 22 states have explicitly implemented telehealth parity for Medicaid.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is Brooklyn's tertiary care hub serving diverse communities with large Medicaid, Medicare and uninsured populations. It was an early adopter of electronic health records and sponsored one of New York State's first health information exchanges. THE PROBLEM.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The clinical interfaces provide data exchange before, during, and after visits, such as sharing a patient’s health history. Appointment Scheduling: In addition to on-demand video visits, patients and physicians can schedule video appointments with one another. Click here for an in-depth showing of AW9 features.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

The clinical interfaces provide data exchange before, during, and after visits, such as sharing a patient’s health history. Appointment Scheduling: In addition to on-demand video visits, patients and physicians can schedule video appointments with one another. Click here for an in-depth showing of AW9 features.

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care innovations

AUGUST 24, 2018

For many people, health is a private matter, and they don't necessarily want to use one of their shared household devices (like a computer) to interact with health information, report vital signs, or have a video-based visit with their nurse or doctor. Inspiring Confidence & Strengthening the Nurse/Patient Bond.

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CMS.gov

JULY 18, 2018

CMS Doubling Down on Health IT; Patients. Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. See our new video for a simple explanation of MyHealthEData. program—a universal digital format for personal health information—and our overhaul of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs to focus on interoperability.

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iSALUS Healthcare

JULY 23, 2018

Not only this, but they are able to review their personal health information, test/lab results, and schedule appointments all in one place, whenever it is most convenient. This patient engagement tool allows patients to meet with their provider via live-video communication.

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GlobalMed

JULY 8, 2019

Virtual care can appeal to behavioral health patients who fear the perceived stigma of visiting a psychiatric facility. Every state Medicaid program provides reimbursement for some form of live video in Medicaid fee-for-service; some also reimburse for store-and-forward telemedicine and/or remote patient monitoring (RPM.)

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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. Logging in: Using patient portals to access health information.

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eVisit

JANUARY 17, 2019

What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new! I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world.

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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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care innovations

JANUARY 2, 2019

2018 began with a bang, as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officially “unbundled” CPT code 99091 to give eligible practitioners the ability to receive separate reimbursement for certain remote care services. January: Unbundled CMS Code Increases Remote Care Reimbursement.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit. Similarly, lead levels in children are tied to both race and income.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

According to Deloitte’s 2018 Survey of US Physicians , only 23% of patients have had video visits and just 14% of physicians have video visit capability. While video visits are only one aspect of telemedicine, these numbers make it clear that the technology still has not reached the point of mass adoption and use.

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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. The telemedicine of today and tomorrow is evolving to deliver advanced care options far beyond a video consultation. The deadline is June 15, 2020.

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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 News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

The system also enables care providers to securely exchange photos, videos and file attachments on their smartphones. TigerTouch is a mobile-centric healthcare-communications platform that enables doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to communicate securely with patients via video, voice or text with a single, enterprise-grade app.

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Health Populi

MAY 7, 2024

Thus, the survey looked across 26 factors of worry well beyond cost — including social determinants and drivers of health like obesity, alcohol use, poverty, and social isolation, along with health system factors such as unequal access to health care, inaccurate or misleading health information, and ageism and age discrimination.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

At Boston-based Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), half of telehealth consultations were done by video at the height of the pandemic, with approximately 4,200 patient virtual visits each weekday. Reduced healthcare costs. For example, the U.S. In the U.S.,

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