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. " Tracey Kopenhaver, RN, Geisinger.

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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. " Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners. ON THE RECORD.

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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. Visitors are not allowed in the hospital.).

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

eNOW offers virtual care in various scenarios, including direct-to-patient video consultations and medical station calls that allow real-time sharing of medical data, images, device reports, and live video from connected examination cameras.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 30, 2020

“In mid-March 2020, it became quite apparent that VIM was going to need to pause in-person visits to the Bend clinic,” said Jennifer Fuller, RN, clinic nurse manager at Volunteers in Medicine’s Clinic of the Cascades. With InfoStructure technology the nurses were able to use a mobile app called SNAPmobile.

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Digital Health Global

JUNE 27, 2023

Joint customers will now be able to leverage Corstrata’s team of certified Wound, Ostomy, Continence (WOC) nurses as well as Swift’s leading, AI-powered wound care platform, which offers superior wound imaging, documentation, collaboration, and decision support tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Just before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, CarDon & Associates, which operates 20 senior housing/skilled nursing communities in the Midwest, was exploring different ideas to give its staff time back, improve resident outcomes and reduce rehospitalizations. THE PROBLEM. " Brandy Armstrong, RN, CarDon & Associates. MARKETPLACE.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Telemedicine is best applied in low-acuity situations – cases where being on video or engaged in a live video chat or discussion is not inconvenient. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 2, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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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.” MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2024

Many large hospital systems have a team of in-house interpreters, but it can be challenging to manage those resources—hospitals often expend a lot of time and money as interpreters travel from one facility to another or make house calls with traveling nurses.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

You’ll see a lot of blue fill signifying peoples’ preference for using a phone for these various tasks — from checking social networks to reading the news and watching short videos. Many personal information flows don’t fall under the HIPAA umbrella if the company isn’t a business associate.

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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. These instances, to name just a couple, can cause delays.

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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. "It's kind of like an extra person in the house. It's kind of like company."

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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. “The athenaTelehealth solution met the challenge we were facing by allowing us to initiate video conference calls with our patients to continue treatment and care,” Miller stated.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 2, 2023

Home Care Magazine provided details about the just-announced Dementia Care policy changes, called the GUIDE Model , including care coordination services, support and payment to family caregivers to help keep care recipients out of nursing homes, and respite help. This is an 8-year program, and a part of the CMS Innovation initiatives.

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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. MCHS had the immediate ability to launch video visits across the organization with WebEx.

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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. Because of this, it hired a full-time employee to monitor the patient panel. " USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2020

Those that had experience saw massive increases in the number of video visits. Even so, "I don't feel like the traditional or video-conferencing stuff is enough." "Providers need to be educating the nurses and doctors that are doing the consultations on how to use these systems.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. While nothing can beat an in-person experience, physicians can check in on them digitally, through remote patient monitoring tools or video consults.

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Enzyme Health

JUNE 19, 2019

CMS is the federal agency that administers HIPAA standards and develops Medicaid and Medicare reimbursement policies for telemedicine. Collaborative agreement : A collaborative agreement is the relationship between a physician who serves in a supervisory role and a nurse practitioner who is delivering clinical services to a patient.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 10, 2019

HandsFree Health's WellBe, is a secure, HIPAA compliant in-home voice-activated device that speaks when spoken to. It applies AI algorithms to video received by cameras installed around the facility. We’ll call family and EMS at the first sign of possible trouble. Learn more at SeniorSense.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 22, 2019

The HIPAA-compliant communications equipment used for the service is designed to help expedite the evaluation of potential stroke patients by a neurologist. WHY IT MATTERS. As a stroke can occur at any time, day or night, a neurologist may not be at the hospital when a suspected stroke patient enters the emergency department (ED).

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 13, 2021

A long time ago, one writer published a charmingly-named CES overview of CES 2012 called CES in Pajamas – an entertaining read with links to 2012 videos just to see what flopped, what was canceled (remember Microsoft Kinect ?) CES 2021 – roll the press releases and turn on your computer. and what/who is still around. Aladin Smart La mp.

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Lloyd Price

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Pristine is a tech start-up at the forefront of developing Glass apps for surgeons, nurses and anesthesiologists for use before, during and after surgery. The Glass platform allows users to view and live stream video recordings in a way that has never been simpler. Emergency Situations This is an area with massive potential.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Over the years, while digital technology was quickly advancing, telehealth had a relatively low adoption rate due to poor reimbursement rates and regulatory challenges when it came to patient privacy and HIPAA compliance. This means patients can receive care wherever they are – at home, nursing home, assisted living, etc.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2021

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. They had developed business associate agreements (BAAs) for HIPAA compliance over four years ago, thousands of which had been in place across the U.S.

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Iris Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

So, this is totally private, and the conversation is HIPAA compliant.” Right now, there is an on-site team member with the patient – often either a nurse, case manager or therapist. The world is used to video conferences, and there is no question that I can see more people through video than I could see in person.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

"For patients with access to video technology, it was a smooth transition to virtual care, including video. "For patients who did not have access to, or who didn't have the technical savvy, to use video technology, we were and are able to conduct visits with them by phone," Tek continued.

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Digital Health Today

APRIL 19, 2021

Physicians, therapists, and nurse practitioners are accessing telemedicine from home and risks are higher than ever. Commercial teleconferencing platforms used for video appointments during the pandemic may be an organization’s weak spot. In the first half of 2020, the number of cybersecurity breaches in healthcare has doubled.

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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. A trained technician or nurse is also always present and can enter the Cube to help the patient, if requested to do so. ” (page 32 of the PDF).

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South Central Telehealth Resource Center

JANUARY 12, 2021

HIPAA compliant platform is now required. G2250: Remote assessment of recorded video and/or images submitted by an established patient (e.g., Reduction of the frequency limitation for subsequent nursing facility care services furnished via telehealth. Nursing facilities discharge day management (CPT codes 99315-99316).

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 18, 2022

To help develop a collaborative solution, Avel eCARE drew on its 28 years of experience supporting patients and clinicians with a team of medical experts through robust communication and video infrastructure. Basic capabilities include: Secure, mobile communications capabilities, including synchronous audio/video and asynchronous messaging.

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