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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

When it comes to sharing data, patients are most comfortable doing it for reasons related to treatment (71%) as compared to payment (39%), operations (28%), or public health (23%). Sales National wound care center Healogics implemented Net Health’s Tissue Analytics solution.

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TriHealth switches to Zoom for pandemic, sees 3,650% increase in telehealth use

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Technology that is difficult to use can create a critical barrier to adoption and, in the case of remote care, simply would not work, the health system felt. "During the peak of the pandemic, primary care telehealth visits accounted for more than 50% of our volume." " Nick Kostoff, TriHealth. MARKETPLACE.

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Telehealth Startup OpenLoop Raises $15 Million to Streamline Virtual Care Delivery

Healthcare IT Today

A Surge in Virtual Health Overnight, the pandemic exposed shortcomings in the healthcare system, leading to widespread adoption of virtual care services by patients and clinicians. Their API-driven platform can be aligned to meet brand needs and securely houses patient PII with its built in HIPAA compliance software.

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The Ins and Outs of Healthcare Communication Platforms

Healthcare IT Today

As cases are automated on communication platforms, there is a growing need to interoperably share care plans for patients/persons beyond the case worker team and out within the community’s ecosystem of stakeholders. Once you understand this, you can focus on which regulations have to be considered, such as HIPAA and GDPR.

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MedPAC members weigh future of telehealth coverage

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a virtual public meeting this past Friday, members of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed how – and whether – to permanently expand telehealth in Medicare. Winter and Tabor also proposed that telehealth technology and services should be required to comply with HIPAA after the PHE.

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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The provider organization made the switch-over from in-person care to telemedicine at the onset of COVID nearly instantaneously, literally between a Friday and Monday in March 2020. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. Click here to read the special report. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.