Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Care partners often take the reins of patient medical journeys, organizing medical appointments, refilling prescriptions and encouraging doctors' orders, but they don't always have their eyes on clinical notes. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Mobi Health News

JUNE 8, 2020

KTM is an insurance risk control company founded in May 2015 in Beijing, China and focuses on combining insurance expertise with information technology, big data and AI. The collaboration will see DocDoc offering its doctor discovery services to the policyholders of China’s top insurance companies on KTM’s platform.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 14, 2019

Having delivered more than 110,000 house calls since February 2015, Heal shared a voluntary survey with more than 6,000 patients who used Heal for the first time in 2018. Findings from the survey reveal substantial reduction in ER and urgent care overuse and pointed […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

The tiff in Texas echoes a similar showdown out of North Carolina in 2015. During the COVID-19 crisis, interstate licensing requirements were waived – making it easier for doctors in one region to provide telemedicine to a patient at their home in another state. THE LARGER TREND. In a 6-3 decision, the U.S.

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HealthIT Answers

MAY 12, 2024

That makes them eligible for a federal program that, since 2015, has rewarded doctors for doing more to manage their health outside office visits. The post Medicare’s Push To Improve Chronic Care Attracts Businesses, but Not Many Doctors appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 17, 2022

As a way to harness the motivation behind this self-guided research, digital health applications can be used to assist patients in improving their self-management and reducing their fear, empowering them and giving doctors a better-equipped ally in shared decision-making [6-8].

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Generating Reports : AI tools can take the results of advanced image analysis and create EHR (Electronic Health Record) notes, facilitate communications with referring doctors, and generate reports for patients. Previously, from 2009 until 2015, he was the Vice President, Emerging Technologies for Henry Schein, Inc.,

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Before what he referred to as the major ramp up in attacks against healthcare that began in 2015, there was "an appreciable minority of patients who were uncomfortable providing all their information to their doctors," he told attendees at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston earlier this month.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

According to court documents, the defendants set up a telemedicine scheme in which one company, HealthRight, solicited insurance coverage information and prescriptions from consumers across the country from 2015 through 2018.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

Here is ECRI’s list of patient safety concerns a decade ago in 2015. Nearly all patients have felt their symptoms had been ignored or dismissed by a doctor at some point, ECRI asserts. Compare these with the top 10 safety concerns for 2025. Many more of these have to do with “technology” and devices (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 22, 2022

Founded in 2015, the company has grown steadily and is now the country’s largest online network of doctors. Helping Patients Too Embarrassed to See Their Doctor. This was especially true for patients in rural areas where the doctor knows everyone in the community by first name.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

Everyone from the board and the C-suite to the health IT team to doctors and nurses are talking about how digital technologies can change the industry and bring about better care and better outcomes. By 2015, 45% of adults under 29 and 25% of all adults in a nationally representative sample did not have a PCP.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015. Note in the chart the emerging trend by 2015 of PCPs emailing with patients and offering after-hours appointments.

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The Health Law Firm

MARCH 26, 2014

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Effective January 2015, Massachusetts physicians who wish to renew their licenses must demonstrate that they utilize electronic health records (EHRs) that meet the requirements of the federal government's meaningful use program. Smith, R.R.T.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

These competitors include Doctor On Demand, MDLive and Teladoc," wrote Amwell this past month in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission as it prepares to go public. Amwell filed suit against Teladoc in 2015 , accusing the company of using an online platform that was too similar to its own. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

South Korea already has experienced that in-hospital infections are disastrous from MERS outbreak in 2015. The Rapid Response Team, comprised of intensive care specialists and nurses, can monitor COVID-19 patients and easily consult with other doctors in real time through the 55-inch touch screen monitor of the RRS named BESTBoard.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2022

Founded in 2015, Alto is a full-service pharmacy powered by a team of experts dedicated to making your doctor’s orders their own. Send in a prescription: Create an account to transfer your existing prescription or ask your doctor to send a new prescription to Alto. How Alto Works. We accept most major insurance plans.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In May of 2015, the NYPD informed Montefiore Medical Center that there was evidence that patient information had been stolen from the hospitals database – leading Montefiore to investigate and discover that the theft had taken place two years earlier. In 2020, CHC notified OCR of another breach.

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The Health Law Firm

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On November 5, 2021, the US Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeals of two doctors who were convicted of running a massive opioid "pill mill" operation at their Alabama clinic known as "Pain Specialists of Alabama." Indest III, J.D.,

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The Health Law Firm

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law A doctor practicing homeopathic medicine was accused of administering a lethal dose of an unapproved drug to a toddler in Arizona. She was required to appear before the Florida Board of Medicine last Friday, October 9, 2015. Indest III, J.D.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

doctors are using digital health tools in patient care, with quickening adoption of telehealth and remote monitoring technology, according to a study from the American Medical Association (AMA). This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2025

The loss/theft of healthcare records and electronic protected health information dominated the breach reports between 2009 and 2015. MN Business Associate 190,000,000 Hacking/IT Incident 2 2015 Anthem Inc. 2015 was particularly bad due to three massive data breaches at health plans: Anthem Inc, Premera Blue Cross, and Excellus.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When scheduling a doctor’s appointment, patients must consider a variety of personal barriers, such as: travel time, time off work, childcare, and more. Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, doctors were able to hold the necessary distance from potentially infectious patients while staying in touch digitally. Conclusion.

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2021

While Apple product purchases in 2015 were. Devoted Health was also early to offer rides/transportation with Alivi and Lyft to members heading to the gym, pharmacies or the doctor’s office. The older adult consumer segment for Apple Watch adoption has the greatest growth, increasing 15% in 2019. purchased by women.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 13, 2023

Meanwhile, 64% of adults would trust a diagnosis made by AI over a diagnosis by a doctor , according to a survey from Innerbody. Additionally, more than 70% of patients as well as healthcare workers view in-person care as more efficient and effective.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 11, 2023

2015 Health Plan 78,800,000 Hacking/IT Incident American Medical Collection Agency 2019 Business Associate 26,059,725 Hacking/IT Incident HCA Healthcare 2023 Healthcare Provider 11,000,000+ Hacking/IT Incident Premera Blue Cross 2015 Health Plan 11,000,000 Hacking/IT Incident Excellus Health Plan, Inc.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Roy and I discussed Philips’ journey to this moment, starting in 2015—that doubling-down to becoming a health-tech company, a vision of digital health on both the hospital/professional and consumer sides of the equation. equipment and hardware). At that point, the company left behind other businesses not core to health.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Founded in 2015 with a mission to restore human connection in healthcare, Summus Global built an innovative model for accessing high quality health expertise. The Summus platform has become the leading doctors’ choice for virtual specialty care to support scaling specialist expertise around the world. Supporting more than 1.6

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

consumers owning digital health tech compared with 33% in 2015, according to research discussed in Supporting Today’s Connected Consumer from Parks Associates. broadband households in 2020 from 17% in 2015. Smart appliances, increasing to at least one per broadband household from 33% of homes in 2015 to 42% in 2020.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

While these tools can do some of the heavy lifting, we’re far from it replacing doctors or humans entirely. While technologists can get medical chatbots halfway, a team of medical doctors should be consulted to best evaluate the generated answers on relevance, style, consistency, and appropriateness.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Pharmacists are often trusted by members of the public who may not have as much contact with GPs due to struggling to get appointments or not being close to a doctor’s office. Then in January, Lloyds pharmacy announced it was withdrawing from Sainsbury’s supermarkets – setting the bleak tone for the remainder of the year.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 24, 2023

For the first time since 2015, there was a year-over-year decline in the number of data breaches reported to the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR), albeit only by 1.13% with 707 data breaches of 500 or more records reported. There is also a risk of financial penalties from regulators.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 26, 2023

Meanwhile, the latest State of Locum Tenens Report from CHG Healthcare found an 88% increase since 2015 in the number of physicians taking on at least one short-term assignment each year. Partnerships Castle Connolly Top Doctors has integrated ZocDoc ‘s appointment booking features into select doctors’ profiles.

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Med-Net Compliance

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The employee had been seeing a doctor regularly and taking medication for her anxiety for years before she started working at the nursing home. She began employment with the facility in February 2015 and worked there until November 2015. The former employee suffered from anxiety throughout her adult life.

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American Medical Compliance

JANUARY 9, 2024

trillion in 2015. More than 3,900 cases of medical identity theft involving patients and providers were recorded in 2015, according to the most recent FTC data, with over 10,000 cases reported between 2013 and 2015. As a result of their large size, these healthcare systems are easy targets for fraud.

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a result, his license was revoked in 2015. This went on from 2015 to 2022, when he was caught for fraud. After the doctor was made aware of accounting discrepancies, the office closed in July 2023. Meagan Baker and Kayla Baker were found to have stolen at least $50,000 from the practice. How did they accomplish this?

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 28, 2015

Telemedicine continues to be a heated issue during the 2015 Legislative session. Many major health insurance carriers are backing telehealth, adding online doctor visits as a covered benefit.

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