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How EHR vendors are arming providers to handle COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As healthcare organizations ramp up efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, their health IT vendors are looking to provide them with tools to manage cases, analyze data and assess patients remotely. The nation’s largest vendors of electronic health records systems have augmented their existing systems over the last three months to give users of its systems more tools to cope with the crisis.

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HIPAA Penalties Suspended for Telehealth During Covid-19 National Emergency

Healthcare IT Today

Today, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued the news that enforcement of HIPAA penalties around telehealth, patient communication, and remote communication technologies will be suspended during the Covid-19 National Emergency and will go into effect immediately. Here’s the official wording from the announcement: OCR will […].

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Singapore government launches new app for contact tracing to combat spread of COVID-19

Mobi Health News

TraceTogether works by exchanging short-distance Bluetooth signals between phones to detect other participating TraceTogether users in close proximity.

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Lockdown Economics for U.S. Health Consumers

Health Populi

The hashtag #StayHome was ushered onto Twitter by 15 U.S. national healthcare leaders in a USA Today editorial yesterday. The op-ed co-authors included Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Leana Wen, Dr. Zeke Emanuel, Dr. Jordan Shlain, Dr. Vivek Murthy, Andy Slavitt, and other key healthcare opinion leaders. Some states and regions have already mandated that people stay home; at midnight last night, counties in the Bay Area in California instituted this , and there are tightening rules in my area of greater Phi

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Optimizing Medical Waste Management: A Guide to Best Practices

Feeling overwhelmed by medical waste regulations? This comprehensive guide unravels the complexities of medical waste disposal, ensuring you stay compliant and prioritize safety. Inside you'll find: Clear categorization: Learn to precisely classify medical waste for proper handling and disposal. Labeling & Storage: Discover best practices for clear labeling and secure storage of medical waste.

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OCR will ease restrictions on telehealth tech during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced on Tuesday that during the coronavirus pandemic it will use discretion when enforcing HIPAA-compliance for telehealth communications tools. WHY IT MATTERS. Even though some of those technologies may not fully comply with HIPAA requirements, OCR says it "will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA Rules against covered health care providers in connection with the good faith provision of telehealth duri

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3 Steps Any Healthcare Organization Can Take To Improve Enterprise Analytics

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Kristin Weir, vice president of product, MedeAnalytics. When it comes down to the most basic purpose of why organizations use analytics, it’s simple: they want to uncover insights that help them take the next […]. The article 3 Steps Any Healthcare Organization Can Take To Improve Enterprise Analytics appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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The Benefits and Challenges of a Remote Workforce in Times of Crisis

HealthStream

Americans are applying “social distancing” in an effort to stop the spread of Covid-19. Organizations are jumping in to help by closing offices and asking employees to work from home. This article discusses some benefits and challenges of remote work and how to make the most of this difficult situation.

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MIT’s Safe Paths Aims to Inform Individuals About COVID-19 Where They Live

Healthcare IT Today

Although the COVID-19 pandemic is by definition a worldwide crisis, it is still distributed in a very skewed manner–and it would help us to know better where it is. A team run out of MIT is working on this at a very detailed, grass roots level though an interesting system called Safe Paths. Although public […].

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Use of Telemedicine To Surge In U.S. As Regulations Change In Response To Coronavirus

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Use of telemedicine in the U.S. has been low to date. However, asexpected, it is expected that demand for these services will increase dramatically over the next few months because of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis, […]. The article Use of Telemedicine To Surge In U.S.

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What investors are saying about startups in the age of coronavirus

Mobi Health News

Digital health investors discuss the opportunity, responsibility and liability of investing in health tech during market volatility and a possible recession.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Meeting HIPAA Requirements When Working Remotely

Total HIPAA

More and More Employees Are Working Remotely. In the last 10 years, the number of people telecommuting in the U.S. has increased by a staggering 115 percent. 1 Ever-evolving technology is making it easier for employees interested in working remotely. This can save a company as much as $11,000 annually per telecommuting worker. While there are several advantages of working remotely, there’s a monstrous risk for those that are obligated to comply with HIPAA : keeping clients’ protected health info

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In Clever Move, Orbita Releases Free COVID-19 Chatbot

Healthcare IT Today

As the public becomes steadily more anxious about COVID-19, healthcare providers are getting swamped with questions about the virus. They’re also struggling to screen both at-risk and symptomatic patients, a necessary step in triaging them and directing them to the appropriate level of care. In response to this concern, healthcare voice assistant vendor Orbita has […].

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Healthcare Lacks A Proper Data-Driven Customer And Employee Experience Strategy

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. HIMSS and Forrester today announced the results from a study that investigates adoption of consumer and employee experience capabilities within healthcare. Respondents were asked about their current strategies for improving both patient and provider experiences, […].

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Scanwell Health, myLAB Box unveil more at-home COVID-19 testing services

Mobi Health News

The companies are pairing their testing kits with telehealth consultations, and anticipate that their offerings will be available in the U.S. within the coming weeks.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Six Reasons to Prioritize Employee Recognition Over Rewards in Healthcare

HealthStream

Effective recognition occurs when an employee receives authentic feedback from a peer, manager and/or leader as to how his/her actions impacted team objectives or the organization’s purpose. Here are six reasons to prioritize employee recognition over rewards in healthcare.

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COVID-19 (Coronavirus) and the 21st Century Cures Act with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS

Healthcare IT Today

One of the interviews I was most looking forward to at the now cancelled HIMSS 2020 annual conference was with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS. I’ve found that the government relations people at organizations like HIMSS are some of the most well informed people and are fonts of knowledge on what we […].

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The Future of Cybersecurity In Healthcare

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Adrian Johansen, freelance writer; @AdrianJohanse18. Anyone who watches the news should be aware of the constant threat of identity theft. Every day, hackers create new scams and tactics to steal private information that they can sell […]. The article The Future of Cybersecurity In Healthcare appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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EverlyWell, Nurx to release at-home COVID-19 test kits within a week

Mobi Health News

This news comes amid the shortage of testing kits in the U.S.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About FACIS, but Didn’t Know to Ask

Speaker: Amy Anderson

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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Seven Big Problems Nurse Managers Face with Traditional Scheduling Efforts

HealthStream

When a nurse scheduling solution fails to work smoothly, it isn’t just the frontline nurses who are affected. As the staff members responsible for creating and maintaining the master nursing schedule, nurse managers have some specific pain points that occur frequently.

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Medicare and Medicaid Allows Doctors to Practice Across State Lines

Healthcare IT Today

One of the biggest health IT related news items to come out was the announcement by Vice President Mike Pence that HHS was issuing a regulation to permit doctors to practice across state lines. State Medical Licensure is something that has baffled many of us that have worked in healthcare. I’m sure there’s some historical […].

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Carrot Health COVID-19 Risk Index Predicts Populations Most Susceptible to Coronavirus Outbreaks

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Carrot Health has developed the COVID-19 Risk Index, which predicts those populations and communities that are most susceptible to the negative impacts from a coronavirus outbreak. The risk index does not predict where and when […]. The article Carrot Health COVID-19 Risk Index Predicts Populations Most Susceptible to Coronavirus Outbreaks appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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HIMSSCast: Governments, health systems' evolving response to COVID-19

Mobi Health News

The HIMSS Media editors discuss government and healthcare-organization response to the coronavirus, including chatbot services, drive-through testing sites and social-media monitoring.

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Ensure Continuous Patient Care: How to Avoid Disruptions Due to Ransomware

The industry has seen an increasing pace of ransomware, zero-day, and remote-code execution attacks. Learn how to defend against these against these attacks in this eBook.

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OCR Provides Guidance on Telehealth During the COVID-19 Emergency

Colington Consulting HIPAA Blog

Yesterday, the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR), announced it will exercise its enforcement discretion and will not impose penalties for noncompliance with the regulatory requirements under the HIPAA Rules against cover.

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Coronavirus Shines Spotlight On Telehealth Delivery Problems

Healthcare IT Today

As the coronavirus threat has continued to grow, providers are making good use of their investments in telehealth. There have always been benefits to meet patients’ health needs with virtual visit tools, which keep care accessible while freeing up face-to-face resources for those that truly need them, but they’re especially important as infection rates rise. […].

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Finalized Interoperability Rules Hold Health IT Developers Accountable, Sparking Demand for Innovative EHR Browser Extensions

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Phil Giarth, director of product, DataLink. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently finalized a new rule to support seamless and secure access, exchange and use of electronic health information (EHI). […]. The article Finalized Interoperability Rules Hold Health IT Developers Accountable, Sparking Demand for Innovative EHR Browser Extensions appeared first on elect

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White House, big tech, research orgs are calling on AI researchers for coronavirus insights

Mobi Health News

The recently announced COVID-19 Open Research Dataset consists of more than 29,000 machine-readable coronavirus articles ripe for analysis.

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Generative AI for Contracts Is Here: New Tools to Accelerate Drafting and Editing

The emergence of generative AI is reshaping the landscape of contract management, enabling businesses to generate and negotiate legal agreements with greater ease and speed. In this on-demand webinar, Hal Marcus, VP of Product Marketing at Evisort discusses how Evisort's generative AI transforms contract creation and negotiation, empowering legal teams to streamline processes while reducing risk.

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Home Health Care vs. Hospital Care

HealthStream

The move toward value-based care may have us seeing home health care as a treatment option with even more benefits for patients and outcomes. Cost, clinical results and patient comfort may support providing higher levels of care at home.

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Expansion of Medicare Coverage and Payment for Telehealth Visits During COVID-19

Healthcare IT Today

CMS has announced the expansion of Medicare coverage and payment for telehealth and telemedicine visits. This coverage and payments were granted under the President’s emergency declaration and this expanded benefit is on a temporary and emergency basis under the 1135 waiver authority and the Coronavirus Preparedness and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act starting March 6, 2020. […].

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Working In The Healthcare Field During A Pandemic

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By David MacQueen, Episode Alert We have all heard of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) which is believed to have originated in the Wuhan province of China. Which it then started spreading across the globe from major […]. The article Working In The Healthcare Field During A Pandemic appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Oura announces $28M in Series B funding, 150,000-plus lifetime smart ring sales

Mobi Health News

New hires, branding efforts and academic research partnerships are all on the table for the smart ring maker's future.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.