Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2020

Telehealth was on the 2020 roadmap for Grand Lake Health Systems (GLHS) in St. Mary’s, Ohio. The health system had been planning to explore the clinical and financial aspects of telemedicine, then deploy the technology where it made sense. The COVID-19 pandemic sped up the health system’s time line exponentially. THE PROBLEM. As the pandemic was starting to affect the United States, Ohio worked to be proactive.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 7, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Julie Pursley Dooling, MSHI, RHIA, CHDA, FAHIMA, director of HIM practice excellence; AHIMA. Release of patient information during COVID-19 What insiders have long known has become clear during the COVID-19 pandemic: health data is […]. The article AHIMA Recommendations During COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 7, 2020

Vasileios Nittas from the University of Zurich explains the importance of technology in the middle of a pandemic, and the pros and cons of relying on these solutions.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 10, 2020

As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on society, it’s more important than ever that we find ways to lift up our spirits. A couple of weeks ago we published (technically the word is ‘dropped’) Volume 1 of the #COVIDMixTape To create that mixtape, I asked over a dozen friends to choose a song that […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

Dr. Jaan Sidorov, CEO of the Population Health Alliance in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a network of 152 independent community-based providers, says he and his colleagues are quickly learning how the COVID-19 crisis will change their practice patterns. Even though Sidorov is a longtime expert in pop health, he's already seeing up-close how the coronavirus pandemic is changing his own daily duties of care delivery.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 8, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jordan MacAvoy, vice president of marketing, Reciprocity Labs. There are several regulatory compliance requirements that healthcare organizations must follow. Even so, it’s the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that gets the most […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

The following is a guest article by Nancy Kadish, Vice President, Operations, Real World Data at Ciox. Patient registries are a powerful tool in population health. Experts consider disease registries one of the three pillars of IT infrastructure needed to improve population health (alongside electronic health records and patient portals). The National Institutes for Health […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 10, 2020

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has temporarily suspended several regulations to enable hospitals, clinics and other providers to boost their front-line medical staff during the coronavirus pandemic. The CMS changes reduce certification requirements for clinicians, with the aim of expanding workforce flexibilities and enabling practitioners to be hired quickly and "perform work to the fullest extent of their licenses.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 9, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Derek Jones, vice president of enterprise strategy, Deputy. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted one aspect of our healthcare system: the global healthcare industry was not prepared to face a crisis. The lack of […]. The article Healthcare Facility Manager’s Guide To Keep Things Run Smoothly In The Time of Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 9, 2020

The in-development system foregoes GPS tracking and other identifying data collection methods in its effort to automate labor-intensive COVID-19 contact tracing.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 9, 2020

We all know that telehealth has been growing thanks to COVID-19. Let’s be honest, a lot of healthcare doesn’t have any choice. They have to move towards telehealth or not see patients that need to be seen. We highlighted the telehealth growth in smaller medical practices. Now, let’s take a look at some health system […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has been pushing the limits of the healthcare systems in many European countries, among them, Spain, where COVID-19 is causing thousands of deaths and is requiring an unprecedented amount of medical resources. A group of CIOs from major hospitals in Spain took part in a HIMSS Europe webinar last week to share their views on how they are handling the crisis from the technological point of view.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 8, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David Gregg, M.D., chief medical officer, StayWell. Technology can be harmful to our health, especially our emotional health. Those are the latest findings from Cigna’s recent study highlighting the epidemic of social isolation. The […]. The article The Human Side of Digital Health appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 7, 2020

Spearheaded by the Information & eGovernment Authority (iGA), the new wristbands are part of the government’s effort in quickly tracing new cases of COVID-19, as well as keeping track of active cases.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic’s curve of infected Americans ratchets up in the U.S., people are seeking comfort from listening to Dolly Parton’s bedtime stories , crushing on Dr. Anthony Fauci’s science-wrapped-with-empathy , and streaming the Tiger King on Netflix. These and other self-care tactics are taking hold in the U.S. as most people are “social distancing” or sheltering in place, based on numbers from the early April 2020 Kaiser Family Foundation health trac

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 9, 2020

This past week, the Federal Communications Commission unveiled a new $200 million program to help fund telehealth programs for qualifying providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using funding from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, the plan aims to expand telehealth and remote monitoring nationwide as the U.S. combats the coronavirus public health crisis.

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 7, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Respons from Art Papier, MD, CEO, VisualDx As the public is ordered to stay home to flatten the curve, healthcare systems are tasked to ‘raise the line’ by increasing staffing, adding beds, and moving to […]. The article How Technology Can Help Provider Organizations Treating COVID-19 appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 7, 2020

The advantages to health and human service delivery in a bot workforce include speed, reliability, consistency and cost-effectiveness. Sound too far-fetched for your management team? We would disagree.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2020

Little did we know on March 10th when we filmed this great discussion about healthy data in healthcare hosted by Intersystems what we were in store for with COVID-19. Although, as COVID-19 has progressed we’ve learned even more how important healthy, quality, trusted data is to healthcare. Learn more about healthy data in the discussion […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

AIA Thailand, which is part of AIA, the largest public listed pan-Asian life insurance group, announced that it has launched a ‘Virtual COVID-19 Clinic’, in collaboration with True Digital Group, a subsidiary of True Corporation, a leading communications conglomerate in Thailand and Samitivej, a private hospital brand in Thailand with a network of eight hospitals and owned by Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS).

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 6, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Josh Horwitz, COO, Enzoic. Healthcare employees are on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic, in many cases working extended hours under extremely taxing circumstances in an effort to treat the growing number of infected […]. The article Cybersecurity During A Pandemic — And How Healthcare Workers Can Protect Themselves appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 8, 2020

According to the new Rock Health funding report in Q1 digital health companies raised $3.1 billion in new investments. However, with the coronavirus hurting the economy, the rest of the year may not follow suit.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2020

Stanford University researchers are working with clinicians to see whether AI can help manage surges of COVID-19 patients, as well as identifying patients likely to need ICU care to keep them from deteriorating. According to STAT News, the team there has already picked an existing AI tool and is posed to decide how to integrate […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The American Medical Association has put together a new guide to help providers implement real-time virtual visits between clinicians and patients. WHY IT MATTERS. The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. Use of virtual care technologies had already doubled between 2016 to 2019 , and since the COVID-19 public health emergency, more and more overtaxed health systems have been a

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 7, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. A team of healthcare professionals and evidence-based medical experts at EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has launched a COVID-19 portal which aggregates real-time information updates from authoritative sources to provide information on all aspects of the […].

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 9, 2020

At a HIMSS Digital presentation, former ONC Chief Privacy Officer Joy Pritts and Connected Health Initiative Senior Counsel Brian Scarpelli discussed some common misconceptions about the law.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve been needing to write a post about the HIMSS 2020 Conference Cancellation for weeks since they announced that exhibitors would get no refunds from HIMSS (keep reading for the latest update). Between being overwhelmed with COVID-19 Health IT coverage and just the sick feeling I get thinking about HIMSS being cancelled, I’ve avoided writing […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 7, 2020

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. In a new survey conducted by Kareo, independent medical practices and billing companies shared the unprecedented challenges created for them and their patients by the coronavirus pandemic. More than 600 medical practices and 140 medical […]. The article Kareo Survey Reveals Coronavirus Pandemic Impact On Independent Medical Practices and Their Patients appeared first on electronichealthrepor

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 7, 2020

From 2000 to 2017, the number of registered clinical trials featuring CGMs, apps and other connected devices rose at a 34% CAGR, according to new data from Harvard researchers.

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