Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

“The Caregility technology offered a HIPAA-compliant, two-way, audio/video solution,” said Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, eICU and cardiac ICU operations manager at Geisinger. In the case of the step-down units, Geisinger wanted to be able to connect that staff to its eICU nurses and physicians for added support. MARKETPLACE.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

All data is securely stored on a HIPAA-compliant cloud platform to ensure dependable, redundant system performance. Our goal is to eliminate the disparity of care through intelligent SaaS and enterprise systems meeting both our commercial and government clients. Barthelemy, the Founder and CEO.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2023

New HIPAA Security Rule – and Enforcement – Is Coming in 2024. Mike Semel said updates to the HIPAA Security Rule should be in place by the end of next year , as ONC plans to release a draft rule in the spring. Read more… QHIN Commentary at the ONC Annual Meeting.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “We also purchased TVs for our large meeting rooms to facilitate doing group sessions.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There has been a growing need for on-demand services and increased outsourcing to meet them, with many organizations turning to external vendors to fill these gaps. Compliance: Are service delivery systems and interpreters HIPAA compliant? Reporting: Can you access and monitor usage of your language services?

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2024

This benefits patient care and meets ACO REACH reporting requirements. Dr. Rishi Sarna at Backline and Jackie Rice at Frederick Health outlined the benefits of HIPAA-compliant communication for transmitting large amounts of data or reaching multiple providers. Family nurse practitioner Alexandra V.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2022

"Without the utilization of telehealth, patients arriving at an emergency department often have long wait times before meeting with an available physician, creating a strain on social workers and other members of the behavioral healthcare teams inside hospitals," said Dr. Eric C. FCC funds for telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” The only HIPAA-compliant vendor Upstate had immediate access to and currently was using was WebEx. “We proposed multiple options, from sending meeting links to making open meeting rooms available for patients for check-in and checkout. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 4, 2023

According to 2022 NSI National Health Care Retention & RN Staffing Report , the average hospital can save $262,300 per year for each percentage point it reduces nurse turnover, with operating room nurses being the most difficult to recruit. Instead, many teams rely on emails, text messages, and phones calls about each surgery.

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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 News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

What elements of cancer care can physicians and nurses tend to with telemedicine along the cancer care journey? So, suppose your nurse or physician is with another patient. How can integrating electronic-reported outcomes with the electronic health record help the whole cancer care virtual care effort?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It often is challenging to organize a meeting date and time with family members and a care team. 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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

ixlayer makes sure home tests meet the same CLIA standards as lab tests. Also, ixlayer utilizes only FDA-approved sample collection devices following best practice standards, everything in HIPAA compliant environment. A number of tests, including the PCR test for COVID-19, require nurses or other trained staff.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

While there were certainly many clinicians performing telemedicine before COVID-19 struck in early 2020, the pandemic foisted telehealth on countless numbers of additional physicians and nurses, forcing them to get up to speed and feel comfortable with the technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

" MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " The patient is trained on use of the blood pressure device by a nurse before discharge from the hospital. The nurse records blood pressure on both the home monitoring device and the hospital device to confirm accuracy. versus 51.4%; p<0.001). ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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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. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. The pandemic presented a variety of problems when it came to continuing patient care during quarantine. To read this special report, click here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 14, 2019

Medicine Delivery – medication will be delivered to patients with absolute data security as Samitivej adheres to the data protection standards mandated by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Samitivej Virtual Hospital will be available from April 1, 2019, with services on offer 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon. But will HIPAA protect American patients in this world of AI, Big Data velocity and volume, and persistent social check-ins? Deven and Vince will teach me more on this evolving challenge that touches all of us.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

This is designed to take out friction of having to download an app, allowing the patient to simply open up an email or text that contains a Zoom meeting link from the provider. In preparing for our virtual meeting, I found that Ron had been trained as a nurse, and was a young pioneer working with the Maine telemedicine network 25 years ago.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 4, 2022

The projects also allowed the hospital to use its staffing resources in new ways to meet the health and wellness needs of the community. It purchased devices and platforms for telehealth visits, ensuring HIPAA compliance and improving the providers' abilities to communicate via telemedicine. Benefits all around.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Mateusz Krempa, COO at Piwik Pro Broader reflection and discussion on HIPAA-compliant technologies would help the industry see beyond popular solutions and identify tools that balance successful data processing with regulatory requirements. The following is what they had to share with us. advertising platforms).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 29, 2022

Kerry Barker, RN, manager, Epic services, at consulting firm CereCore, and a former ICU nurse and nursing instructor at Brigham Young University, left the bedside for the IT side. We set up virtual meetings where we could chat on progress and deal with any issues that occurred. Most staff supporting this effort were virtual.

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Health System CIO

MAY 14, 2020

I’m always having meetings with my teams. We meet with site directors and our business relationship managers for each one of those facilities and other key business units of the organization to try to understand what their needs are and how we can meet them. It was never, ‘We can’t do that.’ How can we find a solution?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many countries require web sites to meet accessibility guidelines; in the United States, both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and HIPAA include such requirements. The Cube was designed specifically to meet ADA Standards for Accessible Design and international equivalents. are great advances.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2023

MEETING THE CHALLENGE Trayt’s platform met the technology challenges TCMHCC faced to build a statewide behavioral health program, Williams said. "We knew an off-the-shelf solution would not meet the challenges we faced in implementing these connections and workflows across the state."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Over the course of a weekend, staff created a workflow through HIPAA-compliant Zoom so that providers could carry out appointments via videoconferencing. “Using Zoom, we were able to conduct HIPAA-compliant telehealth appointments during the first months of the pandemic,” said Ann Tucker, CEO of Portland Community Health Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

The organization also uses a custom-developed, HIPAA-compliant photo-sharing platform. ” Phase One was mobilization, ramping up telehealth services quickly to meet patient and family needs. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2022

Remote patient monitoring allows patients to monitor their blood pressure, weight, oxygen saturation, symptoms and medication adherence in real time at home with a dedicated registered nurse who actively outreaches to patients as needed. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 3, 2019

Staff sought an alternative to meet patients' medical needs and concluded that telemedicine was the solution. Clinic physicians use virtual care to meet with their patients about common but non-life-threatening conditions such as cough, sore throat or pink eye that do not warrant a physical exam to diagnose. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2019

Specifically, MediSprout's V2MD, a HIPAA-compliant video conferencing technology for telemedicine visits. The technology provides teleconferencing via the V2MD app accessed from a smartphone or computer, allowing patients to meet with center doctors and healthcare providers from the convenience of their home or office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2022

"Up to the start of COVID-19, almost all telehealth services were offered in facilities; the place of service was a clinic, hospital and skilled nursing facility," said Chris Meyer, director of telehealth at Marshfield Clinic Health System. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. Click here to read the special report.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

could see a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2033 and will need to hire at least 200,000 nurses per year to meet increased demand and to replace retiring nurses. It’s estimated that the U.S. She has led startup, turnaround and high growth initiatives for industry-leading healthcare delivery teams.

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Lloyd Price

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Hospital systems across the country are in the initial stages of rolling out voice-activated digital assistants like Alexa to boost patient engagement and simplify the work of doctors and nurses. Another Alexa project coming from Northwell will allow doctors and nurses to ask Alexa for details on a patient’s electronic health record.

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BHM Healthcare Solutions

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

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. Privacy and security. Providers must also abide by any other state privacy laws.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

JUNE 9, 2021

I saw firsthand how effectively his hospital collaborated with VNA Care for follow up in home nursing and PT. Since Sam encouraged me as the caregiver to join him, I attended this 90-minute session and Q&A with about a dozen others (Note: Not sure why the other patient’s names were displayed in the Zoom meeting given HIPAA).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"We are literally able to meet patients where they are, which was essential during COVID, and has continued to be valuable in both medical and behavioral healthcare since in-person care resumed." MEETING THE CHALLENGE. " Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center uses a combination of Doximity, Doxy.me

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Challenges to a 2024 reboot: Regulatory hurdles: Medical devices need to meet strict safety and privacy regulations, which could delay the approval and adoption of Glass in healthcare settings. Doctors and nurses are often tired and overworked, which is why disruptive technology to instill safeguards could save lives.

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