Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News ' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." ( Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.).

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 20, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Furthering your education as a nurse can benefit you and your career in many ways. It can expand your skills, the quality of care that you administer, and your earning potential. Unfortunately, many nurses lead […]. The article The Pros and Cons of Online Learning For Nurses appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. The public health crisis accelerated “what’s next” for health care delivery, detailed in A New Era of Virtual Health, a report published by TripleTree.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 21, 2021

Genomics is one of the most exciting parts of healthcare. It’s also one of the most complex and challenging topics out there. As genomic sequencing prices have dropped and genomic research has accelerated, I know of no area of healthcare that’s more exciting than genomics. While genomics has shown so much progress and promise, I’ll […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2021

Preferred Behavioral Health Group, based in Lakewood, New Jersey, is a multi-site outpatient behavioral health organization providing adult mental health services, youth and family services, and substance use services. Its mission is to deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families through a trauma-informed care philosophy and approach.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 20, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. We’ve already seen the way brain injuries are diagnosed and treated improve significantly over the years. But what’s next on the horizon when it comes to brain injury technology? A brain injury can cause someone’s […]. The article Emerging Technologies In The World of Brain Injury appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Health Populi

APRIL 19, 2021

As the COVID-19 expanded peoples’ consciousness about infectious disease and opportunities to keep a tricky virus at bay, consumers grew new muscles about public and individual wellness…now, “more invested in achieving it,” according to In Health We Trust , a survey report from Healthline Media. To gauge Americans changing perspectives on personal health, HealthLine conducted surveys among 1,533 U.S. consumers age 18 and over in February 2020 (just about the time the coro

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2021

It's been more than a year since the World Health Organization officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. According to a McKinsey report, an estimated 25% of outpatient services could move to telemedicine, which is among the necessary changes that could mean preparation and prevention for future health epidemics and pandemics, said Dr.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 22, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Josh Horwitz, COO, Enzoic. With vaccinations underway, it’s becoming possible to envision the light at the end of the pandemic tunnel; however, the post-COVID world will have some notable differences. One such example is […]. The article The Latest Threat To Healthcare Data: COVID-19 Apps appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2021

Many of the health IT innovations today are happening on the back of health data. I don’t think anyone would disagree that future health IT innovations are going to rely on high quality data. However, what happens when there are reasons you can’t or don’t want to share that data? What happens when multiple organizations […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 22, 2021

AliveCor asserts that Apple knowingly copied its patented technology in an effort to squash it as a market competitor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2021

Even as telehealth has made many aspects of care more seamless, a few elements have routinely emerged as points of difficulty. Among them is the waiting room. A new survey from LifeLink Systems out this week found that the vast majority of patients said they'd prefer a virtual waiting room that allowed them to complete paperwork on their phones before they got to a doctors' office.

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HealthStream

APRIL 22, 2021

Employees deserve recognition for the incredible lengths to which they are going during the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of adaptability, flexibility, and providing successful patient care in an unprecedented time. Use it to support employee engagement.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2021

The following is a guest article by Stephanie Jamison, Director of Regulatory Affairs at Greenway Health, a leading health information technology services provider. Temporary relaxation of certain telehealth regulations put in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) was a necessary step to enabling care continuation between providers and their patients during shelter-in-place orders. […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 22, 2021

The contactless monitor gives parents insights about a baby's breathing patterns and sleep.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2021

The National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved, a nonprofit organization geared toward advancing health equity and economic viability, recently launched a new platform aimed at building actionable insights from social determinants of health data. The Data Fusion Center uses de-identified data, along with publicly available information, to allow greater understanding of the ways different SDOH intersect.

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HealthStream

APRIL 20, 2021

Once NQF decided to focus its attention on the opioid crisis, its leadership began many months of work. They tapped outside experts for data and strategy ideas and began to look at how healthcare providers and entities could tackle the complex issues of opioid addiction and substance abuse disorder (SUD).

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2021

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/23 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Joy Rios (@askjoyrios) and Shereese Maynard (@ShereeseMayMba) from @HITLikeAGirlPod on the topic “The Value of Connection: Reconnecting in the ‘New Normal’ ” NOTE: Joy and Shereese are about […].

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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

APRIL 20, 2021

The program focuses on the cardiology space and helps to send rhythm data back to the provider.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 19, 2021

UnitedHealth subsidiary Optum has launched a new virtual care product. OptumHealth's CEO says the software, Optum Virtual Care, is now live in all 50 states. According to a transcript of an April 15 earnings call , executives from both UnitedHealth and Optum said the software aims to integrate physical care, telehealth, home care and behavioral care.

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HealthStream

APRIL 19, 2021

Seven fundamental pillars of opioid stewardship are the foundation for the NQF opioid stewardship courseware available through HealthStream. This active learning, scenario-based curriculum takes the learner on a healthcare organization's journey to improved opioid stewardship.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 20, 2021

As I visited the various “suites” (that’s what CHIME called their virtual booths) at the CHIME Spring Forum, I saw a lot of great health IT companies. Since I live, eat, breathe, and sleep health IT, there weren’t a lot of surprises, but it’s always great to see old friends. However, when I came across […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 20, 2021

The Dialer is HIPAA-compliant and doesn’t require any additional setup on the patient side.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2021

On Wednesday, ChristianaCare and Highmark Health announced a new collaboration they say will boost patient outcomes and healthcare affordability by removing excess costs from care delivery. WHY IT MATTERS. The goal of the joint venture company is to match the two organizations' respective expertise to develop a "new model of value-based care that is continuous and data- and technology-led," according to ChristianaCare and Highmark Health.

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The HIPAA Blog

APRIL 23, 2021

Chapter 4: Nancy and Ted and the Nature of Legislation. If you’ve paid much attention to Congress in recent years, you’ll have gotten the impression that they don’t tend to get a lot of legislative action done, and whenever they do, it’s a whole bunch of related – and often entirely unrelated – stuff jammed into one big piece of legislation.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 22, 2021

When we went on a cruise four years ago, one of the items we distinctly remember was that there were two things in every port. They were advertisements to buy discounted jewelry at select stores, and a Señor Frog’s. Señor Frog’s is a Hard Rock Café for grownups. For those of you who were not […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 21, 2021

The company was founded in 2016 by Dr. Nadine Hachach-Haram to enable surgeon collaboration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2021

Enterprise Taxonomy: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed:

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Health Law Attorney

APRIL 22, 2021

President Biden recently signed the Act to Prevent Across-the-Board Direct Spending Cuts, and for Other Purposes (the “ Act ”) (available here ) into law. The Act extends the temporary suspension of certain mandatory Medicare FFS claim payment reductions until December 31, 2021. By way of background, the Budget Control Act of 2011 required mandatory across-the-board reductions to be made in federal spending, otherwise referred to as “sequestration.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2021

A panel of healthcare CIOs at the CHIME Spring Forum confirmed what startups have known for a long time – the odds are stacked against them. The panel confirmed that health systems prefer to work with incumbents on new solutions rather than adopt ones from startups. However, startups with strong clinical champions, seamless integration with […].

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