Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

"The savings that result from telemedicine versus an office visit for the long-term care supports and services provider that operates IDD residences is significant." “Station MD, our telehealth vendor, was providing similar telemedicine triage service to nursing homes on Staten Island that housed medically frail residents.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

Acute care telemedicine technology and services vendor SOC Telemed and clinical practice management company SCP Health have announced a partnership to deliver scalable, flexible emergency and hospital medicine services via telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS. SCP Health operates in 33 states and more than 400 facilities. ON THE RECORD.

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Medisys Compliance

MARCH 6, 2023

Starting to provide telemedicine services in your orthopedic facility can be a great way to expand your reach and provide convenient care to your patients. Starting telemedicine orthopedic services has lot of benefits like improved access to care, increased patient satisfaction, cost savings and better practice management.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

State-specific governing bodies, such as the Bureau of Facility Standards , provide oversight with certain standards, adding a layer of complexity to successfully managing healthcare compliance in Idaho. Continue reading this overview for key aspects of healthcare compliance specific to the state of Idaho.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 30, 2022

But with new COVID variants continuing to emerge, not to mention the convenience virtual care offers, it’s becoming increasingly clear telemedicine wasn’t a “temporary fix” — it’s here to stay. The question becomes, how do we evolve and improve telemedicine so that it’s an even more viable option permanently?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. The nursing industry is being torn apart by the convergence of several major currents: 1. million to 1.35 million to 1.35

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2019

However, the health system's Winchester Medical Center hospital president Skip Phillips had previous experience with tele-ICU, specifically, telemedicine technology and services vendor Advanced ICU Care. Valley Health could have tried to keep riding out the intensivist shortage by hiring locums, which is very expensive.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

To ensure organizations meet these standards, federal healthcare compliance requirements have been put in place. Let’s look at some of the key federal healthcare compliance requirements, state-specific variations, and accreditation standards healthcare organizations must adhere to. What Are Federal Healthcare Compliance Requirements?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 31, 2020

in March, telemedicine quickly became the go-to-approach for most medical visits as it offered a solution that allowed effective care without risk to patients or providers. The following is a guest article by Dr. Waseem Ghannam, co-founder of TeleHealth Solution. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in the U.S.

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Provider Trust

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Hosted by Co-Founder of ProviderTrust Michael Rosen and Chief Compliance Officer Donna Thiel, our webinar outlined various factors affecting the healthcare space in the new year, from staffing strikes to increased scrutiny around private equity investment firms. What does this mean for compliance and oversight or management of these risks?

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

It ultimately impacts safety, compliance and, by association, the quality of patient care. Thankfully, compliance teams play a key role in building a culture of safety to retain healthcare employees and, most importantly, keep patients safe. Watch this webinar to see how MedTrainer lessens the pain of staffing shortages.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As nursing homes look for funds to allow them to improve care and train nursing home staff, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) released QSO-23-23-NH (“CMS Memo”), which reopens and recasts the Civil Money Penalty Reinvestment Program (“CMPRP”).

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 20, 2023

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On April 6, 2022, Florida's Governor signed into law legislation to remove the state's prior restrictions on telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances. The new law in Florida allows healthcare providers to prescribe many controlled substances via telemedicine. Indest III, J.D.,

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The Health Law Firm Blog

APRIL 24, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On April 6, 2022, Florida's Governor signed into law legislation to remove the state's prior restrictions on telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances. The new law in Florida allows healthcare providers to prescribe many controlled substances via telemedicine. Indest III, J.D.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

Hopdoc, a telemedicine technology and services startup backed by software developer DevDigital, is giving away a telemedicine platform to doctors for free to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopdoc’s secure telemedicine system is accessible on any device with a browser: phone, tablet or computer. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2020

Children’s Hospital Colorado in Aurora developed an active and growing telemedicine program over the past eight years. Before COVID-19, almost all specialties were using telemedicine in some aspect of their practice. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Christina Olson, Children’s Hospital Colorado.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, very few clinical areas at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, had established telemedicine programs, and there was little synergy among them and the organization’s Epic enterprise EHR. There also was much uncertainty around reimbursement and regulations regarding telemedicine.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2023

"This was generally used for retired clinical nurses or others who had the time and desire to sit next to a patient," he continued. When that happened, we would generally have to re-assign an even more critical individual, such as a nurse or a patient care technician, to help protect that patient. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2023

According to the latest State of Telemedicine Report from Doximity, 83% of physicians said telemedicine improves continuity of care for patients with chronic conditions , and a similar percentage of patients said they plan to maintain or increase their use of telemedicine in the future.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Deliver dosing compliance verification to caregivers and providers. The company also says physical and mental health routines and video telemedicine capabilities are in development and the technology will evolve to offer third-party service integrations for needs like grocery delivery, ride share and connected home solutions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 30, 2020

For years, staff at the Petersen HIV clinic in Tucson, Arizona, had been working on implementing a telemedicine protocol for their patients in the region. York, the pharmacist, goes over the list of medications, renews antiretroviral therapies and determines compliance with them.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 8, 2021

"Through the use of ObservSmart, we have been able to improve patient safety, increase quality of care and ensure improved compliance," said Zachary Hughes, vice president of innovation and technology at Aspire Health Partners. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2020

As healthcare professionals look to telehealth solutions to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Braidio announced the release of the telemedicine platform MyHealth Concierge, which runs over the network and cloud infrastructure of AT&T. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com. Twitter: @dropdeaded209.

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 2, 2022

For the reasons discussed below, DTC telehealth platforms should re-visit their compliance plans and be prepared for increased state and federal regulatory scrutiny. Does the state prohibit licensees, including physicians, nurse practitioners, or pharmacies, from sharing their professional fees with third parties?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

It is affiliated with the Yale School of Medicine and its clinical faculty practice, Yale Medicine, which provides a depth and breadth of clinical expertise to support much of the health system's telemedicine programs and provides existing infrastructure that supports joint development of telehealth programs.

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Verisys

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Each month we will give a roundup of recent healthcare fraudsters and compliance busters. Healthcare Fraud Crackdown!

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Telemedicine is considered to be under the umbrella of telehealth and refers specifically to clinical services.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 17, 2022

First, nursing homes and assisted living facilities are seeing large numbers of suits , particularly for failures in infection control. Litigation against cohorts such as employers, health care providers, and nursing homes is already difficult, but COVID-19 lawsuits have proven even more difficult to win. Shield Propagation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 11, 2020

" Nurses can complete patient intake through the EHR and then initiate a so-called virtual handoff to practitioners. It is unclear whether patients without access to broadband , smartphones or other webcams can also seek care through athenaTelehealth. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 7, 2024

of adults age 65 and older indicated using telemedicine in the prior 12 months compared to just 29% among patients ages 18-29. Virtual care nurses can answer medical questions and provide expert guidance in real-time. In a 2021 study, 43.3%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 26, 2021

"In our acute facilities and EDs, we also partnered with our technology provider Teladoc to provide telemedicine carts that could support EDs with virtual triage, minimizing the strain on our PPE supplies as well as unnecessary exposure," she continued. " Andrea Fleming, Providence St. Joseph Health Consortium. MARKETPLACE.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff. Background.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2022

As healthcare teams grapple with the ongoing staffing crisis, Inpatient Virtual Engagement is designed to help reduce staff burnout by facilitating virtual specialty coverage, tele-rounding, tele-nursing and tele-observation to enrich patient care and clinical collaboration, the company added.

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YouCompli

JULY 12, 2022

Allegedly, the medical practice instructed providers to begin seeing patients by telemedicine twice a month and to subsequently bill for evaluation and management (E/M) services. The increased number of E/M telemedicine visits was designed to make up for lost revenue from the cancellation of elective interventional pain procedures.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 16, 2022

A recent study published in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found that telehealth can be safe and effective when it comes to managing high-risk pregnancies. "Our results are important in that they indicate that modern technology can be used in the management of high-risk pregnancies." THE LARGER TREND.

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YouCompli

JUNE 1, 2022

The United States has a nursing shortage. Before the COVID pandemic, many openings were due to retiring nurses coming to the end of a long career. Now, many more nurses are leaving the profession due to burnout. Positions for traveling nurses are on the rise to fill gaps throughout the country.

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