Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I've seen it said before that year-ahead predictions are like weather reports: Everyone reads them, but almost no one looks back later to see whether they were accurate. Still, since when has that stopped anyone from indulging in this pastime as the calendar turns from December to January? Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. healthcare system.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Waseem Ghannam, MD, MBA, MHSA, president, TeleHealth Solution Across the country, well over 100,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and these numbers continue to climb along with rising positivity rates. Similar to the […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This article was co-authored by Geri Lynn Baumblatt & Amy Bucher. A nurse practitioner (NP) was telling patient advocates how to help patients prepare better for appointments. She explained that many people with high blood pressure (BP) don’t track it before their appointment. So, she gives them a sheet and has them schedule another appointment […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Through all of this year’s tumultuous ups and downs, one trend that has remained unstoppable – and has even accelerated – is the healthcare sector’s adoption of technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

In the recent IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Health Industry 2021 Predictions report, experts at IDC Health Insights offer their thoughts about the issues healthcare and life science organizations will contend with over the next year and beyond. WHY IT MATTERS. Unsurprisingly, 2021 will largely be shaped by "the disruptive forces of COVID-19," according to IDC, which sees the pandemic as having changed "everything across all verticals now and into the future.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The internet, online websites, and mobile applications have simplified our lives. It is no longer an option but has become a basic necessity for leading a comfortable life. Therefore, as the world is advancing, more […]. The article How To Make A Medical App For A Healthcare Clinic appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

It's been quite a year for digital, from Akili's de novo clearance to the downfall of 'digital pill' maker Proteus. MobiHealthNews takes a look back at the highlights.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Sun River Health, based in Peekskill, New York, is a not-for-profit system of federally qualified health centers. It provides culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate primary, preventive, behavioral and oral healthcare, and a full range of enabling and support services. It serves predominately low-income and highly vulnerable patients living throughout a 16-county region of southeastern New York, encompassing the Hudson Valley, New York City and Long Island.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. The emergence of technology is rampant nowadays. From the convenience of the person using it allows reduction of legwork in a few touches of the smartphone. In order to run a business-like Gym Management Software, […]. The article Gym Management Software: The Revolution of Physical Science appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 28, 2020

During the decade or so in which I’ve been following data interoperability, the cleverest people in the healthcare and technology industries have come together to make disparate systems work together effectively. While there are still a number of technical issues to iron out, I’d go so far as to say that sustained data interoperability is […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 29, 2020

MobiHealthNews talks about the positive economic impact of wider consumer engagement in health tech with Ilya Kravtsov, CEO and co-founder of PouchPASS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Sponsor: US Cellular Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Patient Engagement Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Telehealth Strategies: Putting the Patient in the Center to Improve Outcomes Region Tag: Global Edition

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 31, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Rahul Varshneya, founder and president, Arkenea. Rural communities, often located amid isolated yet beautiful landscapes, are a defining feature of much of the United States of America. But those same landscapes can, at times, […]. The article How Telehealth Is Making Care More Accessible In Remote Regions of the US appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2020

For quite some time, critics have rightly complained about the difficulty providers have faced exchanging data stored in Epic EHRs. That’s been the case despite Epic offering a proprietary data-sharing tool named Care Everywhere which makes some degree of patient data sharing possible. The Epic tool hasn’t been giving providers access to entire medical records, […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 28, 2020

MobiHealthNews highlights providers' efforts to address treating, testing and mapping the coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Founded in Hong Kong in July 2020, Aurora Tele-Oncology Limited, an oncology-specific teleconsultation platform striving to improve cancer care, recently announced a strategic partnership with Hainan UMP Internet Hospital, a telemedicine center of UMP Healthcare Holdings Limited. Hainan UMP Internet Hospital was granted a practicing license by the Health Commission of Hainan Province in August 2020.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 27, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. When you have a close friend who is struggling with addiction, it can be painful and challenging to watch the destruction they experience. If you’re unsure of how to approach the situation and interact as […]. The article How To Deal With A Friend Going Through Addiction appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 1, 2021

As we head into 2021, all of us at Healthcare IT Today want to say Happy New Year! 2020 has been one for the record books and we are deeply grateful for all of you that supported the work we do here at Healthcare IT Today. We are sincere in our mission to improve healthcare […].

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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The newest deals bring the year's total to a record-setting 64 digital health acquisitions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 30, 2020

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Biological psychiatry is a type of psychiatric that analyzes mental disorders from chemical, neurological, and physical viewpoints and in which psychiatrists prescribe treatment protocols accordingly. The approach also is known as biopsychiatry. Biological psychiatry brings […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following is a guest article by GP Hyare, Managing Director at ReMedi Health Solutions One year ago, the average EHR go-live involved hundreds of support personnel flying to a hospital and working on-site for four to six weeks. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the inability for so many individuals to fly-in and stay in […].

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This December, we look back at a challenging year – and forward to what we hope is a better, stronger, more connected and resilient healthcare ecosystem.

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Health Law Gurus

DECEMBER 31, 2020

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (the “CMS”) relaxed some rules to expand access to telehealth, including through audio-only communication platforms. With the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the public health emergency is expected to be brought to an end. As such, the emergency measures temporarily put in place will expire, leaving many patients in rural areas and lower-income households without access to telehealth services.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Brooke LeVasseur, CEO, AristaMD. We have turned a page to the next chapter in healthcare for the US. At its core is a new delivery system in which we leverage all available tools to […]. The article How eConsults Fit Into The Future of Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We know that we usually do Fun Friday on Friday for obvious reasons, but since the new year starts on a Friday, we thought a few cartoons to lighten your day before heading into the New Years holiday and weekend would be appropriate. Obviously, most of these cartoons are looking back at the crazy year […].

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HealthStream

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Given the focus across healthcare and especially within long-term care for the COVID-19 pandemic, the QAPI guidelines and the need for organizations to comply with them may be delayed far longer, creating more confusion and anxiety among industry compliance and operation leaders.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 28, 2020

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 29, 2020

By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., LL.M., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Yale University agreed to pay $87,500 to resolve discrimination allegations with the US Department of Labor. The discrimination alleged that the Ivy League school paid four women cardiologists significantly less than their male colleagues from October 2016 to September 2017.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The term telehealth can be applied very broadly. Although many, including the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, define telehealth simply to encompass virtual visits, we now have a mandate to explore numerous uses for networking and remote monitoring that can improve health, creating what some observers have called a “hospital without walls” or “virtual […].

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