Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

A bipartisan group of U.S. representatives has reintroduced a bill aimed at expanding access to telehealth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 legislation was introduced this past week by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., cosponsored by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt., Bill Johnson, R-Ohio, David Schweikert, R-Ariz., John Curtis, R-Utah; and Doris Matsui, D-Calif.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 28, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Jean-Pierre Stephan, managing director, Accenture Health. COVID-19 has disrupted industries, and nowhere is it more apparent than in healthcare. Given the urgency of addressing the pandemic – from ensuring new protocols are in place amidst […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2021

The startup's app prices care using cash rates, while letting its members choose their preferred care by comparing the costs of their local providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 26, 2021

The SolarWinds attack was not only an attack on the Software Supply Chain. It also had secondary consequences. To illustrate this, we will use the example of Microsoft Active Directory, the authentication technology utilized by most corporate networks, which was also affected by it. The goal of this example is to show how accommodating one […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2021

As the United States approaches its one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic beginning to disrupt normal healthcare operations, a question continues to endure: What's next for telehealth? The answer remains unclear on a federal level, with U.S. lawmakers recently reintroducing legislation that would take at least a few steps toward safeguarding virtual care.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 27, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Automation has become increasingly popular in business over the past few years. By automating business processes, you can reduce errors, save time, and save your business a lot of money. It can seem like a […]. The article How To Automate Your Medical Claims Audit Process appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to generates sales of its athenaClinicals product. In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Behavioral Health Services North in Plattsburgh, New York, did not frequently use telehealth because of regulatory constraints and what staff considered somewhat cumbersome practices. During the pandemic, New York State became very aggressive in offering modified telehealth regulations, thus allowing healthcare organizations such as BHSN to move to a virtual care environment for the health and safety of staff and the patients they serve.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 27, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Every business today knows the usefulness of having an active online presence to reach out to people. Marketing your practice or hospital means learning some complex terms and jargons in order to increase your search […]. The article 6 Benefits of Hiring An SEO Expert In Healthcare Marketing appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 29, 2021

Flare Capital's Alexandra Mullin and Ian Chiang outline COVID-19's impact on the worsening opioid crisis and how the digital opioid use disorder space is likely to develop over the coming years.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2021

I still think back to my early days here at Healthcare IT Today when Practice Fusion came on stage offering a free EHR. It was a pretty astounding thing since most EHR were charging hundreds of thousands or even billions of dollars for their EHR. The idea of a free EHR just blew people’s minds. […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2021

NantHealth, a provider/payer collaboration IT vendor, and Sesame, a direct-to-patient telemedicine company, are collaborating on a program designed to give providers tools to offer patients direct access to virtual care while, the companies say, increasing practice revenue by reducing administrative costs. With just under half of the adult U.S. population uninsured or underinsured, Sesame and NantHealth are working to educate providers on direct-to-patient and virtual care, with the aim of enabl

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 27, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. There are many things you must consider first. First and foremost, what is your major? Some people go with a Bachelor’s in healthcare, while others prefer to take classes towards a Master’s in healthcare. If […]. The article 5 Proven Tips For Choosing A Degree In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2021

The Samsung Health Monitor app will be updated to enable these features on the Galaxy Watch3 and Galaxy Watch Active2 beginning on February 4 for certain markets.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 27, 2021

A group of California hospitals has had such success with the initial run of its medical billing improvement process that it has expanded far more quickly than it had originally intended. The Member Payments program brings together members of the Dignity Health hospital system with Blue Shield of California and tech startup OODA Health to […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2021

Primary topic: Telehealth Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: House bill seeks to safeguard telehealth; DarioHealth buys Upright Technologies Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Piyush Jain, founder and CEO, Simpalm. Telehealth is the delivery of health education, health information services, and healthcare services using remote technologies like telecommunication and digital communication. It has long been around in the […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 26, 2021

Also: Healthify adds to its SDOH platform with Papa’s companionship services. Allscripts and U.S. Orthopedic Alliance team up to create an orthopedic services technology platform.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2021

We recently held CIO roundtables with a wide variety of organizations to discuss their experiences to quickly shift their organizations to remote workforces, hosted by Dell Technologies and VMware. Needless to say, everyone in the room had stories to tell as they all raced to facilitate remote workers in their organization. What we recognized in the […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that four people and one company have recently pleaded guilty in a telemedicine pharmacy healthcare-fraud conspiracy that allegedly lasted for years. The group was charged with a conspiracy to defraud pharmacy benefit managers out of $174,202,105 by submitting $931,356,936 for fraudulent prescriptions purchased from a telemarketing company.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. “We believe consumer health technologies — apps, wearables, self-diagnosis tools — have the potential to strengthen the patient-physician connection and improve health outcomes,” said Dr. Glen Stream, Chairman of Family Medicine […].

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company is currently piloting 11 women for their algorithm technology to predict embryo implantation probability.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2021

In 2020, investments in digital health reached $14.1 bn , much of which went into niche applications like lab testing, medication adherence, and on-demand triage for urgent care. These companies targeting primary care components represent the “unbundling of the family doctor,” as CB Insights recently coined the market trend. Fragmentation is a hallmark of the U.S. health care system, or more aptly “non-system” as my old friend J.D.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

Last year, Health Partners of Western Ohio had been tasked with providing school-based healthcare in 71 sites across the Toledo, Ohio, area. THE PROBLEM. Many of these locations would not have Health Partners' employees present to administer examinations, and some of the personnel on-site had minimal or no medical training. So telemedicine immediately came to mind.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 27, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. It’s no secret that healthcare businesses face some unique challenges, especially in this unstable economy. And with so many regulations and rules on the books, it can be challenging to make changes that result in […]. The article 5 Easy Methods To Grow Your Healthcare Business appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 29, 2021

The round was led by Todd Cozzens and had participation from existing investors Khosla Ventures, Founders Fund, Green Innovations, Vesalius Biocapital and Faber.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 27, 2021

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger. I cover this first wave of Biden health policy in my latest post for the Medecision Liberation blog titled, “ Top Priorities for President Biden: COVID-19, Then Everything Else.̶

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

Global technology service provider companies NTT and Cisco has partnered with Siriraj Hospital, Thailand’s biggest public hospital to use telemedicine to enable rapid treatment for stroke patients. Known as the Siriraj Mobile Stroke Unit, this special ambulance connects the first responders in the ambulance to the experts at the hospital. This allows doctors to provide immediate attention, medical treatment, and diagnosis to patients during their transfer to the hospital.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 25, 2021

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Many healthcare professionals are now providing telemedicine calls and video conferences as an option to their patients due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this is a wonderful tool for both patients and doctors, many people […]. The article 4 Reasons Why You Should Invest In Your Telemedicine Services appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 25, 2021

Nerivio is a wireless, noninvasive remote electrical-stimulation wearable that is worn on the upper arm at the onset of a migraine.

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