South Central Telehealth Resource Center

AUGUST 8, 2018

New legislation at state and federal levels is making it possible for telehealth services to be reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance carriers. Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2020

Payors, both commercial and public sector (Medicare, Medicaid), have relaxed rules and regulations for telehealth across platforms (from purpose-built telemedicine programs to HIPAA-relaxed approvals for using FaceTime, Zoom, and other commercial channels), and have various plans to pay for virtual care visits between clinicians and patients.

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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. Acute care, sub-acute care, urgent care or ambulatory care.

Mental health 170

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DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

APRIL 2, 2023

To be eligible for CCM services, patients must be enrolled in Medicare Part B. The care team responsible for chronic disease care includes a primary care physician, a specialist, and other care providers. Here are some examples: A.

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Medicare Mental health EHR Primary Care 40

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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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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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. As a standalone, HIPAA-compliant telemedicine platform, Doxy.me " MARKETPLACE. After it was vetted, Sun River quickly rolled out 245 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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Telehealth EHR Medicare Telemedicine 112

South Central Telehealth Resource Center

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

New legislation at state and federal levels is making it possible for telehealth services to be reimbursed by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance carriers. Successful telehealth programs use adequate bandwidth, HIPAA-compliant software, appropriate hardware and delivery methods that meet patient needs.

Telehealth 57

Telehealth Medicare Telemedicine Primary Care 57

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

MARCH 30, 2023

One of the ways healthcare organizations are working to improve health equality is by increasing access to primary care in underserved communities, and investing in social determinants of health such as housing and nutrition.

Patient Experience 40

Patient Experience Digital Health Primary Care Health Policy 40

Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness. By adding health functionality to the new Echo that sports a camera, Amazon can hope to get coverage from carriers to help manage home care.

Life Science 60

Life Science Primary Care Interoperability EHR 60

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

Their API-driven platform can be aligned to meet brand needs and securely houses patient PII with its built in HIPAA compliance software. The new service offering allows OpenLoop clients to grow their patient pool by offering access to more affordable specialty and primary care options.

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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 Interoperability HIPAA Nursing 128

Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The updated ACO Reach payment model from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) sets forth a value-based model of capitated payments to physicians who meet quality and spending targets – combined with a plan to deal with health equity. As health consumers, U.S.

Health Technology 156

Health Technology Mental health Digital Health Primary Care 156

Henry Kotula

JANUARY 2, 2019

It is considered the nation’s largest federally recognized provider of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Diabetes Prevention Program, having received more than $125 million in venture funding since it was founded in 2011. .

Digital Health 32

Digital Health Mobile Health Telemedicine Primary Care 32

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

Nursing 101

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Mend

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Today, the majority of primary care physicians fret that telemedicine is way too time-consuming and complicated for them to execute in their already busy practices. 2) HIPAA Privacy and Security. Implementing telemedicine in your primary care practice is really more about the effort you put in than the time or money you invest.

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Telemedicine Primary Care HIPAA Telehealth 52

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 13, 2020

” However, leveraging technology and providing telemedicine can allow residents to receive the care they need while also reducing the risk of contracting COVID-19, he added. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services earlier this year temporarily lifted restrictions on the technology that could be used during the pandemic.

Telehealth 185

Telehealth EHR Telemedicine Pharmaceuticals 185

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 Indiana University Health. Children’s Health in Dallas.

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Telehealth Leadership Primary Care Psychiatry 118

Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, more hospitals were piloting and planning to move inpatient acute care to certain patients’ home when that made clinical and economic sense. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

Digital Health 182

Digital Health Public Health Life Science Patient Experience 182

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.

EHR 113

EHR Medicare Health IT Healthcare Innovation 113

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 22, 2020

So a patient will have to travel to a primary care or clinic setting and the on-site providers will set up a telemedicine cart within their room. " Staff had to figure out, fast, how to integrate this new model of care in a HIPAA-compliant model. No one was going to invest in a technology that was not reimbursable.

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EHR Telehealth Telemedicine Nursing 115

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.

EHR 60

EHR Medicare Health IT Healthcare Innovation 60

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.

EHR 60

EHR Medicare Health IT Healthcare Innovation 60

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

When Dr. Mehta adopted telemedicine for his practice six years ago, it represented a small percentage of his primary care business. Ashok Mehta, Hopdoc cofounder and owner of SimplyCare family practice in Mount Juliet, Tennessee. Now he conducts hundreds of virtual visits a month.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Primary Care HIPAA 162

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. Paula Span for The New York Times. Feigned confusion is another.

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HIPAA Medicare Primary Care EHR 60

Mend

JANUARY 11, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services expanded Medicare coverage for telehealth visits. Recently, the Trump Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services announced unprecedented steps to expand Americans’ access to telehealth services during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Telehealth 52

Telehealth Medicare HIPAA Public Health 52

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.

Primary Care 41

Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience HIPAA 41

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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