Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Purchasing devices and platforms due to pricing was a concern, and HIPAA-compliant platforms and cybersecurity [were concerns] for PHI/patient safety." Staff members were unsure if Medicare and Medicaid would honor the prospective payment-system rate. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. To read this special report, click here.

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Mend

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expanded Medicare coverage for telehealth visits. IHS service units and their clinicians who are using the system will obtain verbal consent from patients who meet with their provider via a telehealth appointment.

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Provider access to affordable broadband and delivery methods, such as smart phones, tablets and iPads, are driving telehealth to become a delivery platform that can meet consumer needs. Reaches into the community and meets specific needs. Developing programs that meet specific needs will help ensure successful outcomes.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Hearing about these pain points from stakeholders is why I’d “repackage HIPAA” if I were a regulator for a day. In that manner, businesses that remained “outside of the purview of HIPAA” would be impacted. I hear patients discouraged and disgusted when they can’t get access to their own data even in 2023!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

" A change in New York State and Medicare reimbursement along with receipt of the $753,367 FCC grant infused working capital on top of Sun River Health's investment in telemedicine. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me " MARKETPLACE. "Doxy.me

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 15, 2023

Ryan Health is a federally qualified health center based in Manhattan that has been providing comprehensive and affordable primary and specialty care to New York’s diverse and underserved communities since 1967. As an FQHC, 75% of patients are enrolled in Medicaid or Medicare; another 7% are uninsured.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ellen DaSilva, Co-Founder and CEO at Summer Health 1) The portability of data to deeply understand patients has been severely restricted (mostly by HIPAA but I won’t go on the record against it), so there’s a lot of information we’ll never be able to meld. payers, health systems, etc.).

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Henry Kotula

JUNE 14, 2020

Of those using telehealth, the majority (68 percent) used it to provide mental health services; fewer used it for primary care (30 percent) or management of chronic conditions (21 percent), suggesting that most CHCs with telehealth capabilities prior to COVID-19 were not using it for the most frequent types of services provided at CHCs.

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Chilmark Research

JULY 31, 2015

“Confusion about HIPAA privacy and security is one thing. HIPAA is often cited as a reason for not sharing patient data in contexts where HIPAA does not apply. Working Under a Clinic-Level Quality Incentive: Primary Care Clinicians’ Perceptions. Death By Meeting. Paula Span for The New York Times.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

To meet this surge in demand, Cleveland Clinic leveraged both its providers who were already active on the platform, and also trained more than 350 primary care providers — many of whom were temporarily redeployed due to the virus — on telehealth. ?During Nemours Children’s Health System. Children’s Health in Dallas.

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Henry Kotula

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Timoni, JD, an attorney and partner at the law firm Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, in Westfield, New Jersey, who represents healthcare providers in areas of reimbursement and managed care contracting. The Trump Administration supports increased use of Medicare Advantage and expanding consumer choices.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

The Health Resources and Service Administration and the Bureau of Labor are working on memorandums to address this issue and to ensure that health experts are available to meet the demands of patients. Another critical aspect is providing culturally competent care that considers the unique needs and challenges faced by different populations.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

More families face difficulty paying all of their, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrote in their December 2022 look into Making Ends Meet in 2022. In healthcare, patients and health consumers are looking for more convenient, accessible, less-costly health care services in light of their growing health economic awareness.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

But for those of us working with and innovating solutions for health and health care, #CES2021 was baked with health goodness , in and beyond “digital health” categories. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred notes that the DocGraph dataset of Medicare physician relationships with patients is the largest graph dataset — i.e. a dataset organized with nodes and edges — using real-name data out there, and is one of the few “people” graphs that are open. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred notes that the DocGraph dataset of Medicare physician relationships with patients is the largest graph dataset — i.e. a dataset organized with nodes and edges — using real-name data out there, and is one of the few “people” graphs that are open. You should follow me on Twitter: @healthblawg.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred notes that the DocGraph dataset of Medicare physician relationships with patients is the largest graph dataset — i.e. a dataset organized with nodes and edges — using real-name data out there, and is one of the few “people” graphs that are open.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 25, 2018

This list, and other names we’ll see creating on-ramps to primary care and self-care to the consumer, will expand in 2019. As consumers take on more self-care through apps, remote monitoring at home, and using social networks for health, people are also becoming more aware of these interactions creating data points.

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