Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2020

The practice needed a reliable system that would enable seamless patient scheduling, HIPAA-compliant video conferencing and billing, Miller said. As an example, a Medicare Wellness nurse may be visiting with a patient and I am able to drop in for a few minutes, making it an all-encompassing visit in just one call.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

need a new-and-improved HIPAA or more over-arching new national privacy law like a USGDPR? Patients most-trust their clinicians, physicians and nurses, as safe places in which to have an honest SDoH discussion, compared with a health insurance representative. What options do people have to opt out of sharing their personal/social data?

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JANUARY 12, 2021

Cigna and Medicare have both rolled out significant permanent telehealth changes, with Cigna implementing a new Virtual Care Policy and Medicare implementing several additional permanent flexibilities. HIPAA compliant platform is now required. Medicare: No Changes.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Medicare Part B coverage for RPM services opens up avenues for healthcare professionals to harness physiological data, refine care plans, and minimize denied claims. Any patient covered by Medicare Part B is eligible to enroll in RPM, receiving 80% coverage for the program. Accessibility and Coverage: The good news?

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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. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine. In telemedicine, provider-patient communication must take place through HIPAA-compliant secure platforms.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Medicare restricts what telehealth services can be billed and limits telehealth access geographically. There are a couple of workarounds for this, one being the enhanced Nurses Licensing Compact that allows nurses in the 29 currently enrolled states to practice telehealth in another eNLC state without obtaining another state license.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2024

The US Senate heard the weak excuses of the United Healthcare CEO who admitted Change Healthcare had not secured its Citrix systems with multifactor authentication (MFA) even though they had a written policy to do so, and that they failed to notify data breach victims by the HIPAA and state data breach law deadlines.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

JANUARY 24, 2023

CCM services are provided by healthcare professionals, such as physicians, nurses, and social workers, who work with patients to develop and implement care plans that are tailored to their specific needs. Chronic care management is a type of virtual care service that focuses on the comprehensive management of patients with chronic conditions.

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The palliative care team, which may include doctors, nurses, and social workers, can also assist with practical issues, like managing finances. However, palliative care may be covered by Medicaid or private insurance plans, and hospice care is often covered by Medicare. What is Hospice Care?

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? The nurse compact, the oldest of all, is one where holding a license in one compact-approved state allows an approved clinician to work in another nurse compact state.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2022

With the national shortage of psychiatrists, additional psychiatric staff can include medical psychologists and nurse practitioners. In crowded EDS, mental health patients are routinely kept on gurneys in hallways and nurses’ stations while awaiting admission or discharge by a psychiatric professional. Read More.

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GlobalMed

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Senior leadership at a research think tank or a chain of skilled nursing facilities may not understand virtual care’s value. Medicare, Medicaid and commercial payers can pay the same service differently. Because of these hurdles, and the uncertainty around HIPAA compliance, some providers have decided to steer clear of telemedicine.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? The nurse compact, the oldest of all, is one where holding a license in one compact-approved state allows an approved clinician to work in another nurse compact state.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 29, 2023

If I practice telehealth across state lines, will my Medicare clients be required to travel to see me if I seek reimbursement for my services? The nurse compact, the oldest of all, is one where holding a license in one compact-approved state allows an approved clinician to work in another nurse compact state.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

HIPAA-Compliant: Any company—including telehealth companies—that handle protected health information (PHI) must ensure that all security measures are in place and followed according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). FSMB has and will continue to play a key role in regulating the telehealth industry.

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American Well

MARCH 17, 2016

HIPAA-Compliant: Any company—including telehealth companies—that handle protected health information (PHI) must ensure that all security measures are in place and followed according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). FSMB has and will continue to play a key role in regulating the telehealth industry.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Thus far, Remedy Partners has been involved in managing about half a million episodes of care, representing $12 Billion in medical spending, in 48 different DRG-based episodes – working with many hospitals, physician groups, skilled nursing facilities, home health agencies, all of which may bear risk in the program.

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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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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

Health organizations are also creating space for new roles, such as nurse practitioners, to help fill the gaps. Insurers, Medicare, Medicaid, and other payer organizations are also increasingly focused on promoting price transparency, as it can help to reduce healthcare costs and improve quality of care.

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HIStalk Weekender

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The impending arrival of Hurricane Florence in the Southeast motivates HIEs to connect their systems, hospitals to offer free virtual visits, and HHS to temporarily waive several HIPAA Privacy Rule requirements. Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not). Best Reader Comments.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The EHR Association called for greater flexibility in the data completeness threshold and additional criteria to enhance patient matching accuracy, while MGMA called for a positive update to the Medicare conversion factor amid high inflation. The HHS Office for Civil Rights released v3.4

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.

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HIStalk Weekender

JUNE 29, 2018

While I agree that HIPAA both by design and by misinterpretation can cause harm I don’t think more legislation is going to fix anything. A JAMA-published study finds that Medicare-insured seniors were in 2015 less likely to die in hospitals instead of their homes compared to 2000. Monday Morning Update 6/25/18. Get Involved.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 30, 2020

The Washington State nursing home deaths and the virus presence in multiple nursing homes have an immediate result. Nursing home visits are now restricted nationwide – and it appears, despite lack of clarity, that also means assisted living – the combination spanning 2.5 TElehealth, HIPAA compliance and innovation tracking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

" "We are extremely fortunate to have physicians and nurses who are very engaged and eager to interact with IT. "We are extremely fortunate to have physicians and nurses who are very engaged and eager to interact with IT," Cherry noted. I have found that nurses will not let bad IT get in the way of patient care.

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It’s important to remember that a telemedicine practice also has to comply with several regulatory barriers, such as those from regulatory bodies like the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS), etc. 2) HIPAA Privacy and Security.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Compliance and Privacy Regulations : The healthcare industry is subject to strict regulations such as HIPAA in the US, and GDPR in Europe. With the goal to have all Medicare payments processed through value-based care by 2030, the clock is ticking for providers to manage these data challenges head-on.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

" Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model. "We adopted full telemedicine services within three days of Medicare's billing approval," he said. " Nursing and ancillary staff. No one was going to invest in a technology that was not reimbursable.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Healthcare facilities will use AI from an administrative point of view because it’s very difficult to hire in healthcare – there’s a physician shortage, a nursing shortage, and a pharmacist shortage. The healthcare landscape will likely witness challenges and adjustments in Medicare Advantage programs.

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American Well

JULY 13, 2020

As the virus began to spread across the United States, Verizon expanded the LiveHealth Online benefit to its associate (union) employees and pre-Medicare retirees. During this time, the health system trained more than 1,200 providers, 900 nurses, and 260 clinical staff on virtual visits. Children’s Health in Dallas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 31, 2020

The new product is billed as EHR-agnostic, secure and HIPAA-compliant and can be set up by downloading an app. In an effort to fight the spread of the virus, the HHS Office for Civil Rights announced that during the coronavirus pandemic it would use discretion when enforcing HIPAA compliance for telehealth communications tools.

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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. Designed specifically for clinicians, the mobile version is available for both iOS and Android devices. And clinicians can invite guests such as family members into video calls directly. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

The HIPAA-compliant solution also enables access to online pharmacy, health records and insurance information, among other features. “Telemedicine enables remote physicians and registered nurses to facilitate non-emergency inquiries across states and even international borders,” said Rafael Solis, COO at Braidio.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

In an effort to fight the spread of the virus, the HHS Office for Civil Rights announced that during the coronavirus pandemic it would use discretion when enforcing HIPAA compliance for telehealth communications tools.

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