Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

In this video, we learn about the company’s focus on health care during the past nine years from Dr. Angela A. Shippy, Amazon Web Services’ Clinical Innovation Lead for Healthcare and Senior Physician Executive at the AWS re:Invent conference. Tell us what you think. Contact us here or on Twitter at @hcitoday.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that during the coronavirus pandemic it will use discretion when enforcing HIPAA-compliance for telehealth communications tools. OCR does note, however, that healthcare providers should notify patients that such third-party apps may pose privacy risks. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Clinicians create a virtual mental health appointment using Zoom's secure, HIPAA-compliant video technology, share that link with the patient and launch the online meeting directly from the Osmind patient app. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health. "They have access to two-way, HIPAA-secure messaging to communicate with their healthcare provider. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The real-time digital assistant capabilities can be used in meetings, team chat, phone, email and its whiteboard tools, with more to come on the video conferencing vendor's road map. In the blog post response , Zoom addressed concerns about HIPAA-protected conversations on the platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Prior to the pandemic, Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, had been using Adobe Media Server integrated with its Epic electronic health record for telehealth video visits. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions. THE PROBLEM. ” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2020

The application gives clinicians multiple options to consult over a secure, HIPAA-compliant connection to patients or other clinicians. Clinicians can start video consults from their mobile devices and connect directly with patient bedside-camera systems while maintaining full far-end camera and audio control.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

One of the HIPAA-compliant solutions CyncHealth uses to exchange information is Direct Secure Messaging. Watch the video for stories about the benefits of CyncHealth and their work with SES to improve patient care. Ensuring the efficient flow of information is fundamental to advancing interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2023

For the 59th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we are joined by Rob McDonald, SVP of Strategy and Field CPO at Virtru and former CIO with Colin Hung replacing John Lynn on the episode. Where should healthcare organizations start and what are some cost-effective strategies that won’t break the bank to implement?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Many clients had never used technology before, and after becoming familiar with how to use video calling were able to connect with family and friends; find groups to participate in for social activities, exercise or hobbies; and learn about topics they found interesting." Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

To facilitate the patient sessions, the center set up a couple of rooms with televisions, computers, webcams and so forth to conduct HIPAA-compliant Zoom and Vee-See sessions with the newly contracted physicians. Patients would come into the office and go into the room, where the doctor was waiting via video. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

" By directly integrating video conferencing within the athenaOne EHR, the company says it hopes to streamline patient and provider experience. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

" An Amazon representative told Healthcare IT News that the company does not comment on rumor or speculation. Users can connect with a clinician via video calls or in-app text messaging. Employees must be enrolled in an Amazon-healthcare insurance to use the service, and those enrolled in Kaiser Permanente may not participate.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

“This entailed making a video visit solution available, creating workflows, and establishing billing and compliant documentation, as well as delivering all-encompassing education.” ” Most clinical locations were not equipped to conduct private, effective video visits. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

Although research supported the efficacy of video telepsychiatry, the National Institute of Mental Health-funded study notes, only 5% of psychiatrists in the Medicare program had ever provided a telemedicine visit. " This was particularly important, Uscher-Pines noted, as many HIPAA compliant software became overwhelmed with users.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The software also enables direct communication between clinicians and patients, covering a wide range of healthcare needs. All data is securely stored on a HIPAA-compliant cloud platform to ensure dependable, redundant system performance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

"The landscape of medicine was beginning to shift, and it was clear that patients didn't want to travel far or wait hours to see a doctor for problems that could be addressed through a video visit," Testa explained. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2024

New forms of social media, such as TikTok, have opened the floodgates to an entirely new manner of healthcare professional conduct online, with an attitude that is much more open to sharing with the masses. These online platforms can undoubtedly be catalysts for quality improvement in the healthcare field.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

Staff would have to juggle multiple windows between the EHR and the video call; it wasn't a smooth operation. Nor was it HIPAA-compliant, a major concern. "This integration meant that the telehealth would be just as HIPAA-compliant as the EHR," Shah explained. These apps got the job done, but they were disjointed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 1, 2020

Epic Systems has tapped San Francisco-based communications tech startup Twilio to provide the video-communication backend for Epic’s new telehealth platform. Twilio also noted that it supports HIPAA-eligible workflows on Twilio SMS, voice, SIP and video-communication channels. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Headquartered in Columbus, OH , Cloudbreak is a leading video-focused language interpretation service provider that helps patients with limited English proficiency communicate with caregivers in healthcare settings.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The health system needed a simple, easy and cost-effective way to implement video monitoring for those rooms. “The Caregility technology offered a HIPAA-compliant, two-way, audio/video solution,” said Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, eICU and cardiac ICU operations manager at Geisinger. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 3, 2023

" The company says the HIPAA-compliant system can help patients avoid the skyrocketing costs of assisted living and in-home care and help address caregiver shortages, and claims the virtual caregiver offers better oversight and care coordination. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. It's kind of like company."

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Telehealth has been an elegant solution to this and has allowed staff to hold family meetings where care providers can show their face via video and provide time to answer questions, she said. This also has been highly effective in coordinating multiple physicians caring for the same patient on one video call, she added. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Some are uncomfortable with the video medium; some are just not familiar with the technologies in use; some are not certain how to incorporate virtual care into the day-to-day operations of their practice. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. These instances, to name just a couple, can cause delays. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“ExtendedCare offered Grady a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based platform that allowed us to rapidly scale video visits at a pace we were comfortable with,” Hilburn explained. “Patient video visits have been adopted to provide both primary and specialty outpatient care,” he said. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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care innovations

JUNE 6, 2018

Discussing the accessibility (or lack thereof) patients have to their electronic medical records (EMR), the report also reveals some important underlying factors that have left many facilities unable to deal with both the transition to EMR and compliance with HIPAA. Improving Compliance with HIPAA: The Telehealth Option.

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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. But the tools have to be properly calibrated. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 2, 2020

" The senators also asked for a written plan regarding OCR's enforcement discretion of HIPAA compliance – and a security analysis of non-HIPAA-compliant tools that providers and patients relied on during the pandemic. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2021

Demirel: People use video-conferencing tools like Zoom or Teams for their virtual communication, but the medical environment is different. Healthcare IT News spoke to Engin Demirel, EMEA head of product management, marketing and sales operations at Olympus, as part of the 'Summer Conversations' series.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Athenahealth had created an integration between it and Apple’s Facetime, a video chat app for iOS devices many are familiar with, and this was a very timely solution to address the issues Riad’s practice was facing. For a comprehensive listing compiled by Healthcare IT News , click here. MARKETPLACE. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

"Only with the expansion of waivers by CMS did we expand to offering care via video and phone with a patient not in a clinical location. Since 2014, we have offered low-acuity episodic care via telehealth on both telephone and video for a specific set of conditions. " Chris Meyer, Marshfield Clinic Health System.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

Bridge evaluated a few HIPAA-compliant telehealth programs and Zoom’s was determined the best and most cost-effective for the agency’s purposes. Most of Bridge’s clients also are socioeconomically challenged and have little experience using computers and virtually none with any two-way video technology. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

"Our new platform had to be HIPAA secure in a technical sense, but we also had to think about the unique challenges of ensuring privacy on the patient's end when family members or other people could be nearby. When the patient joins the waiting room, you let them into the video visit and begin the consultation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

" In an effort to find a video technology that was easy to use for patients, MaineGeneral ended up with HIPAA-compliant Zoom as the video conferencing component for virtual care in outpatient settings. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. MARKETPLACE. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

“We had the idea of building a strong nurse triage work-from-home pool using the remote access to our EHR and considered the idea of video conferencing for our mental health appointments,” Fuller said. Healthcare IT News recently compiled a comprehensive list of these vendors with detailed descriptions.

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