Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

I’ve been impressed with everything that the various organizations within HHS have done to try and help healthcare organizations deal with the pandemic. OCR has done a lot around HIPAA including the enforcement discretion around HIPAA penalties associated with telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 23, 2024

So what are these key skills and qualifications and how have they evolved with advancements in healthcare technology ? We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community for their thoughts and the following is what they had to say. HIPAA), and healthcare data and interoperability standards (Ex.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2023

"We are returning towards pre-COVID-19 financials, and the organizations struggling before the pandemic are in the same predicament now," Chou wrote for Healthcare IT News in February. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

“I have been using athenaTelehealth exclusively in my family medicine practice for several weeks now,” said Dr. The company says athenaTelehealth "leverages existing patient communication channels, including email and text message based on patient preferences, and delivers telehealth instructions and a seamless patient experience."

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 31, 2023

Funding to Accelerate Reach of Solutions, Already on Pace to Impact One Million Patient Lives in 2023 Vital , a leading artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital health company improving the patient experience, today announced that it has raised $24.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies. From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“This acceleration also was made available by the opportunities to be reimbursed for telemedicine-related services and relaxed CMS guidelines that waived penalties for HIPAA violations against healthcare providers that serve patients in good faith through everyday communications technologies.” MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2022

Capital raise comes amid rapidly growing demand for the company’s HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions. Paubox , a leading provider of HIPAA compliant email and marketing solutions for healthcare organizations, today announced it has raised $10 million in funding from Arthur Ventures.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2023

Coming together under the Verisma brand, the combined company provides faster turnaround times through automation, expanded services to manage compliance requirements, and advanced tools to improve patient experience. ScanSTAT is a proud partner to some of the industry’s best electronic health record (EHR) systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Healthcare IT News spoke with Ford to discuss what it is about cancer care that lends itself well to telemedicine, how integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record helps the whole virtual oncology effort, and much more. Communication between patient and clinician is critical during this journey.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There are also situations where unqualified bilingual staff, who lack specialized training in medical interpretation, are called upon, jeopardizing patient health and removing providers from their current duties. This flexibility can greatly enhance the patient experience and ensure effective communication throughout their treatment process.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

Syllable’s Patient Assistant Syllable improves patient experience while reducing staff burden with AI. Syllable’s Patient Assistant offers a multilingual, 24/7 ‘front door’ to care while simultaneously reducing staff workload.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 19, 2023

Although widely used in many other industries, its adoption is just beginning to take off in healthcare. In fact, as healthcare leaders increasingly prioritize patient access , chat’s success in other businesses has spurred the rapid onboarding of chat solutions to help address healthcare-specific engagement and accessibility challenges.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2024

He has more than 30 years of experience in healthcare IT. This avoids the laborious process and delays associated with calling, faxing, and contacting providers and family members. He currently serves on the California Health and Human Services Data Exchange Framework Stakeholder Advisory Group. Care Health Plan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2020

"All of this must also be connected to the existing healthcare infrastructure including security and communications standards such as HIPAA and HL7," Rock explained. "If we can do all of that, and I believe it's possible in 2020, we will change healthcare – and change lives."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. “This feature really mimics the patient experience of being in the office.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 5, 2023

Language access plans (LAP) provide organizations with a roadmap to ensure access and connection that alleviate these disparities and improve patient experience. Healthcare organizations can improve efficiencies and optimize the patient experience by incorporating the latest tools and technologies into their LAPs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 26, 2022

Healthie enables healthcare providers and startups to build the virtual services consumers demand–providing the feature sets to build back-office operations and deliver a modern patient experience. About Healthie.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 30, 2024

The American Medical Association found that in 2022, over 75% of patients expressed concern about protecting the privacy of personal health data. Ensure that all touch points comply with HIPAA, especially for those using biometric sensors. So, it’s essential providers have a secure system to manage it.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"Quickly, Yosi Health engineers were able to leverage our existing EHR integration into a new integration with a HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform," he continued. "If the pandemic has taught us anything, it's that we, as healthcare providers, need to up our games in terms of the patient experience," Merok advised.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

To help shed a light on these topics, we reached out to our brilliant Healthcare IT Today Community to see what health IT trends they believe deserve more attention. Privacy features for HIPAA compliance would mean means and features that allow organizations to exclude PHI from data collection or redact the PHI to make it anonymized.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 6, 2022

"Once the visit was ready to take place, patients would be taken to a two-way video screen where they could talk with a provider through a secure, HIPAA-compliant connection," she continued. Healthcare IT News published a special report highlighting many of these vendors with detailed descriptions of their products.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Dan Kompare, Vice President of Information Systems at Harmony Healthcare IT. With 15+ years of experience in information technology, I’ve observed our collective security first mentality increasing focus on vendor management and long term system compliance and sustainability. The continuous addition of new rich data sources [e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

"Early intervention by RNs on staff have resulted in avoiding readmissions through timely medication adjustments, identifying a pacemaker's dead battery, discovering a patient's need to be on hypertension medication, and more." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Healthcare IT News interviewed Laura Mrazik, manager of telehealth at MaineGeneral Health, to discuss best uses and best practices with Zoom so others can learn from MaineGeneral's lessons. In early 2021, Zoom had done a great job highlighting the security measures they had taken to ensure HIPAA compliance for health system clients.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 19, 2024

They can also improve patient experiences and contribute to better patient outcomes. It’s no wonder 94% of healthcare companies say they’re investing in AI, and budget allocations are expected to grow from 5.7% They also must comply with IT department guidelines – and HIPAA regulations – for data privacy and security.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The majority of virtual care services at NCHS have been delivered through its proprietary, encrypted HIPAA-compliant telehealth app – which came in handy when COVID-19 began slamming the United States. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2022

In addition, TECH LOCK brings strength across several areas of compliance that complement Clearwater’s deep HIPAA expertise. Clearwater is the leading provider of cybersecurity, risk management, and HIPAA compliance software , consulting, and managed services for the healthcare industry. About Clearwater.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Infrastructure Engineer position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Today, we’re featuring the Sr. Docker, Kubernetes) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Amazon EKS) Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2023

Usability can be tracked over time to see how often patients log in relative to the number of appointments they have, which device they use, the number of interactions with features, and how long they spend in the portal. Now, there is a trend toward an expectation that patients are able to either download or share their data on demand.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 12, 2023

“We believe our vision at Dock Health aligns with the missions of the MM Catalyst Fund and DaVita in supporting better outcomes, reduced costs, and better provider and patient experiences,” said Dr. Michael Docktor, Co-Founder and CEO at Dock Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Confidentiality Is A Cornerstone of the Healthcare Industry. Inspired by ethical tradition, HIPAA guidelines mandate that patient information be stored and communicated securely. The following is a guest blog post by The Fax Guys. That critical requirement has far-reaching technology implications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" "Coupled with seamless EHR integration and clarity on reimbursement methodology, our new telemedicine infrastructure will push Sun River to thoughtfully consider patient experience in the development of a resilient yet flexible model of care." As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

advocated for two particular policy changes to be made permanent: the originating site rule, allowing physicians to be reimbursed for telehealth appointments wherever a patient is located, including a patient's home, and the expansion of Medicare- and Medicaid-reimbursable telehealth services. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 14, 2022

Acquisition pivots prescription management to patients, reduces administrative burden and offers connectivity at the point of prescribing. Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) today announced the acquisition of ScalaMed, a HIPAA-compliant, smart platform that transfers prescriptions directly to patients via a secure mobile app.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 11, 2022

When you simplify your staff’s experience, you simultaneously optimize your patients’ experience. For example, take patient engagement. Provider requirements: locations, visit rules, procedures, patient preferences. HIPAA regulations. Clinical safety: screening & escalations.

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