Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my upcoming book on Healthcare Digital Transformation, co-authored with Ed Marx, former CIO of Cleveland Clinic, we discuss how the dramatic growth in telehealth could accelerate digital transformation in healthcare. He suggests that some patients would still want to come into a clinic for their healthcare needs.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Digital Health Remote care 147

Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

I recently wrote about financial toxicity discussing a study from IQVIA Institute on the 2017 prices for oncology drugs, with all new treatments exceeding $100,000 price tags in 2017 and a median price of about $150,000 for a year’s therapy. It’s not enough to open up doctors notes to patients. Thanks to the U.S.

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Medical Billing Primary Care Pharmaceuticals 217

Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

V", because the content should be seen only when reader is individually authorized -- psychology-notes, usually also used on all VIP patients (Not a best practice, but reality). "M", It might be determined by workflow, psychology notes clearly are coming from a psychology workflow. for "_confidentiality". but it is untested grounds.

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FHIR HIE Health Information Health Data 65

Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 18, 2022

Many think this is an easy problem to solve, just slap a security tag on the data, but it is a much bigger systems-engineering problem. The clinical expectation is that the primary care physician can break the news more carefully or provide a more complete explanation. For example, a lab result that clearly indicates cancer.

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FHIR Primary Care 52

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. Note that 3 in 4 Washingtonians supported the law when polled in March 2023, with only 17% of people opposing it. Nor are base platforms for accessing care, services and information distributed to or accessible by all U.S.

HIPAA 156

HIPAA Health Data Health Information Digital Health 156

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 24, 2020

Note United Healthcae’s reimbursement of E-Visits and Virtual Check-ins (including Medicaid patients until June 18). category tags: Telehealth-mHealth-Voice Health. Consider the HIMSS rebranding of one company, Wellsky, formerly Mediware,rebranded as Wellsky, but also renamed home, companion, private duty care as ‘personal care.’

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Remote care mHealth Telehealth Medicare 71

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

Connecting with the patient, obtaining their vitals, noting exceptions and issues, and providing feedback and guidance to them is key to helping patients manage their post discharge recovery, their chronic conditions, or note the early signs of health problems that could be mitigated before becoming a crisis. How effective is RPM?

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Nursing Telehealth 125

BHM Healthcare Solutions

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The Peer-to-Peer Review (P2P) process is used to explain or clarify something the clinical record cannot convey clearly. The concerns about reimbursements and the tedious phone tag process make these conversations uncomfortable and time-consuming, contributing to their negative reputation. Who Initiates a Peer-to-Peer Review?

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Primary Care 52

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

“Many patients and clinicians were forgiving of the initial bumps with such a fast transition to virtual care, but became less understanding as time went on,” Crotty noted. “This needed to be coordinated with our entire clinic, with six subspecialty providers, in a way for everything to flow. That sense of team.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Mental health Primary Care 167

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 11, 2020

CEO (and American Well founder) Dr. Roy Schoenberg noted that the pioneering telehealth company, founded in 2006, rebranded itself on March 9 as Amwell. As he noted, despite the initiatives to automate health record data exchanges across platforms, fax still dominates – and needs to access and deliver information securely.

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Telehealth mHealth EHR Nursing 146

Aging in Place Technology Watch

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Now health organizations and providers are moving forward with voice-enabled interfaces to everything from hospital rooms, appointment scheduling, doctors note-taking, prescription requests, and even discharge instructions. This material is drawn from the 2020 Market Overview of Technology for Older Adults, to be published in March].

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 17, 2019

List of ‘hand-picked’ diabetes websites noted in Diabetes Gourmet Magazine, and information sites from Johns Hopkins ( Guide to Diabetes ) and the American Diabetes Association website. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health.

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mHealth Digital Health Telehealth 96

33 Charts - Digital Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

At home I keep Epic open and try to enter my phone notes as soon as I complete the call (Epic actually has a great iPhone app). Another case is the critical MRI at the end of the day when I’m playing phone tag with a family. Like Dr. Sevilla, most of us on call are primed to answer, admit, refer and advise. It’s ‘our weekend.’

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TheraNest

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Bavonese notes that “In the past year Google has also added a number of features to this free service, such as the ability to post links to your website; get messages and answer questions.” . Optimize your meta tags. A good portion of SEO strategy is on the backend of things and meta tags are an important piece. No worries.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

To help meet this goal, the ambulatory surgery center contracted with health IT vendor Force Therapeutics, which offers a digital care management platform that leverages clinical data and custom protocols to educate patients and monitor their progress throughout an episode of care. " Then there are lower readmission and infection rates.

Nursing 125

Nursing Patient Experience Pain management Remote care 125

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JULY 15, 2015

V", because the content should be seen only when reader is individually authorized -- psychology-notes, usually also used on all VIP patients (Not a best practice, but reality). "M", It might be determined by workflow, psychology notes clearly are coming from a psychology workflow. for "_confidentiality". but it is untested grounds.

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FHIR HIE Health Information 40

BHM Healthcare Solutions

JULY 16, 2019

Editor’s Note: Payers stay informed with information security trends to protect their patients’ data. Click HERE to learn how BHM’s investments into cyber-security protect your data. Click HERE to learn how BHM’s investments into cyber-security protect your data.

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EHR Health Information Interoperability Medicare 40

Aging in Place Technology Watch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

But there were issues, disruptions and sizable opportunities worth noting in August, the biggest one was Best Buy's purchase of GreatCall, just six weeks after Amazon acquired PillPack , the latest big company acquisition -- part of a to-be-continued series important to families and providers of care to seniors. Read more here.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 10, 2017

Observation.read# patient="[link] Which is clinical-scope ::= ( fhir-resource | '*' ) '.' ( 'read' | 'write' | '*' ) '#' ( query | '*') I a proposing this without working out all the issues. So, rather than relying on the SMART launch context to hold the patient identifier. I think this more powerful.

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FHIR 40

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Note that hearing loss has been linked to dementia and to social isolation – and that in turn has been connected to poorer health outcomes. More significant in 2011, Best Buy became a founding consortium member in a ‘living lab’ Charter House in Rochester, Minnesota (along with Mayo Clinic). "We

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 16, 2018

More significant in 2011, Best Buy became a founding consortium member in a ‘living lab’ Charter House in Rochester, Minnesota (along with Mayo Clinic). "We category tags: Mobile PERS , cell phones, smartphones , IoT and home monitoring. But Best Buy executives saw the opportunity and decided to learn more.

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Health Technology 59

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Who knows, since Pew appears to be largely done – after all, they note, 89% of Americans are online and they do not survey all questions each time. And that doesn’t count emergency advice from WebMD or Mayo Clinic. AARP published a survey last year that included responders in their 70s -- we stay tuned for the next update.

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Telehealth 98

Aging in Place Technology Watch

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Who knows, since Pew appears to be largely done – after all, they note, 89% of Americans are online and they do not survey all questions each time. And that doesn’t count emergency advice from WebMD or Mayo Clinic. AARP published a survey last year that included responders in their 70s -- we stay tuned for the next update.

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Telehealth 72

Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 27, 2015

The security system (authentication and access control) The clinical/healthcare repository Notify that Break-Glass 'could' be used. Note that this notification should not be used when there is data being withheld that is not accessible under Break-Glass. This solution does require well managed tags on all data.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Note we are not limiting ourselves to treatment Privacy Consent, just haven’t gotten that far yet). No clear solution, although I could follow up in a smaller audience with some potential solutions using tags, parameters, oauth scope, UMA, alternate transactions, redirection workflow, etc. link] (A work in progress, [link].

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 25, 2018

of doctors and nurses own a smartphone, and critically around 35% of them use web-based messaging apps to discuss patient care and send clinical information on a regular basis. Large numbers of staff are sending patient related clinical information using smartphone messaging modalities.

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Digital Health Nursing Primary Care HIPAA 91

TheraNest

MAY 20, 2019

Steer away from clinical jargon, especially around modalities – most people do not know what technical terms mean. End on a hopeful note that instills prospective clients with the confidence that you can help solve the specific challenge they’re facing. Ensure all information is up to date.

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Private practice Mental health 75

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 20, 2024

It’s nice to know that there is a “Patient Experience” Manager at an outpatient clinic, not so nice to encounter an increasingly present kiosk (versus a person) requiring multiple cards and inputs, before you can sit down and wait to see a practitioner. My Chart , myself. Restaurants (and their tech providers) love them.

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Patient Experience 69

TheraNest

MAY 15, 2019

Steer away from clinical jargon, especially around modalities – most people do not know what technical terms mean. End on a hopeful note that instills prospective clients with the confidence that you can help solve the specific challenge they’re facing. Ensure all information is up to date.

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Private practice Mental health 40

Lloyd Price

AUGUST 28, 2021

Examples of health projects being reassigned include consumer-facing products like sleep tracking tech with its Nest Hub smart home devices, Fitbit wearables, clinical initiatives like its Care Studio EHR search tool and health AI tools previously with Deepmind.

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EHR 90

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 21, 2020

Several companies noted were at CES or with announcements at or around that time offered up the possible – a dashboard or collected insights about the wellbeing of an older adult at home. Medical grade, Class II, FDA approved devices provide reliable, commonly used, clinically accurate data to share with healthcare providers.

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Health Data Digital Health Telehealth 164

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

One might note that individuals 55 and older account for more than half of healthcare spending , with costs rising with age. Clinicians get real-time clinical note drafts that help them save time on documentation. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Pharmaceuticals Health Analytics 69

Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 4, 2022

One might note that individuals 55 and older account for more than half of healthcare spending , with costs rising with age. Clinicians get real-time clinical note drafts that help them save time on documentation. category tags: Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health , AgeTech , healthcare , telehealth. Learn more.

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Telehealth Telemedicine Pharmaceuticals Health Analytics 62

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

She sat down for a conversation with Healthcare IT Today about the role technology can play in helping to retain physicians and reduce clinical cognitive load. Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. [Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ].

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient Experience Digital Health 90

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. Through the company’s app, physicians can automatically check in on patients in between face-to-face visits on a clinically relevant schedule that the physician’s practice controls, based on the patient’s conditions.

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Connected Health Telehealth Pharmaceuticals EHR 184

Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 8, 2022

CES 2022 – smaller in size, but big in tech futures. Many big companies decided at the last minute to stay home, eliminating, as one attendee noted, the lines at Starbucks. Reliefband Sport® is a clinically proven wearable includes a built-in rechargeable battery that, when fully charged, will last 30 hours on the medium intensity level.

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Digital Health Telehealth 75

Digital Health Global

MAY 3, 2023

Now, with the availability of GPT-3 through an API framework, a state-of-the-art conversational AI model is available to CharmHealth users to enhance global clinical efficiency. Enhancing efficiencies in the clinic’s workflow directly impacts the quality of patient care and provider job satisfaction. MedicalMine Inc.

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mHealth Healthcare Innovation Telehealth EHR 88