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Cornell Scott-Hill makes big strides with specialist telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Taking stock of the sudden evolution of telemedicine

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For healthcare providers, telehealth presents an opportunity to address patient care needs, improve the customer experience and reduce costs. Since then, CMS has now expanded coverage for telehealth and telemedicine. How can healthcare provider organizations tackle privacy issues related to HIPPA when it comes to telemedicine?

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Transforming Disaster Recovery with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

Recently GlobalMed’s Chief Clinical Officer Gigi Sorenson and Chief Medical Information Officer Dr. Dean Smith presented talks about disaster recovery and telemedicine at the International Conference on Disaster Medicine and Hurricane Resiliency. Now emergency response leaders are turning to telemedicine for help.

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The prominent issues telehealth must tackle when the pandemic passes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare IT News interviewed Mulcare to dig into the reversion to pre-pandemic regulations, the ethics of telemedicine across state lines, what telehealth technologies can do to increase access, and more. How will physicians and patients approach telemedicine care across state lines ethically?

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New HIE hook-up, telemedicine transform care at LA clinic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“The HIE technology was both HIPAA- and ePHI privacy-compliant. A patient’s health information is presented to users as data types categorized in an organized fashion.” CSC’s four community clinics swiftly prioritized telemedicine training and changed practice workflows to incorporate the LANES platform.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

Deloitte presented this graphic for an integrated data and analytics platform supporting remote patient monitoring data feeds in a June 2020 report noting that remote patient monitoring could trigger a multi-channel data tsunami.

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What sort of staying power does telehealth really have?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Alleva, who focuses on the federal regulation of healthcare providers, payer enrollment and HIPAA compliance, told Healthcare IT News that it's still too soon to tell how patients will react to loosening coronavirus restrictions. " Before COVID-19, telemedicine was "underutilized," she said.