Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Pasadena, California-based Heritage Clinic, a division of the Center for Aging Resources, provides mental health services in Los Angeles County to older adults experiencing substantive and persistent mental health concerns. Many have multiple medical issues further complicating their lives. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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AIHC

APRIL 25, 2022

Written by: Joanne Byron , BS, LPN, CCA, CHA, CHCO, CHBS, CHCM, CIFHA, CMDP, COCAS, CORCM, OHCC, ICDCT-CM/PCS This article addresses how to track telehealth policies while addressing HIPAA compliance and mobile device management as the United States enters into a post-pandemic era. So, how do policies apply?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 19, 2023

There are also situations where unqualified bilingual staff, who lack specialized training in medical interpretation, are called upon, jeopardizing patient health and removing providers from their current duties. This flexibility can greatly enhance the patient experience and ensure effective communication throughout their treatment process.

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MRO Compliance

JANUARY 17, 2022

Healthcare data has become a growing target of cyber-attacks via areas such as digital health records, data sharing and medical devices that communicate with hospital systems that do not have the appropriate level of safeguards in place. Cybersecurity is an ongoing process that requires suitable resources to decrease vulnerabilities.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 14, 2021

“The explosion of telehealth will certainly be a hot topic at HLTH. Providers need more supportive resources to be successful in more meaningful and broadly distributed risk models. Virtual and hybrid care, policy changes, and wearable devices are some of the larger topics we will see because of the pandemic.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 25, 2023

The HIPAA Privacy Rule The HIPAA Privacy Rule defines standards that protect individuals’ medical records and identifiable health information, known collectively as PHI. The Privacy Rule also provides individuals with certain rights regarding their medical records. At a minimum, this requires taking the following steps.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 23, 2022

Any medical data stored in the cloud is accessible from multiple locations. But while this threat appears in the cloud, a greater one lies in human error and negligence – where a lost device or stolen password can lead to a breach just as easily as a phishing attempt. In the U.S., Improve patient care through the cloud.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Let’s discuss the topic in detail. It grants individuals certain entitlements related to their medical data, including the ability to view their records and manage who can access their information. To implement AWS security best practices , you must understand how the platform allows for enhanced security. What is HIPAA?

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American Medical Compliance

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In this blog post, explore how American Medical Compliance offers the HIPAA compliance services every healthcare organization needs in 2024. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) has been a cornerstone in safeguarding patient information for nearly three decades.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 2, 2022

" As is the case in other states across the country, behavioral health resources are extremely lacking in Colorado, she added. " Telehealth was the solution to many of these emerging issues and the health system was fortunate to have the infrastructure and trained resources in place to meet the needs. MARKETPLACE.

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The Digital Health Corner

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They included C-suite buy-in at the corporate level of the potential customer, commitment of resources, interdisciplinary team participation, and partnerships between private and public sectors. Burnout is of a sufficient magnitude that physicians are unionizing and many medical students plan on having jobs not involving seeing patients.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 5, 2023

We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on Internet of Things security – an important topic as medical devices grow in importance and abundance. Protecting Your Patients and Your Organization From IoT Security Risks. Read more… CIO Podcast : Data Privacy.

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AIHC

JUNE 14, 2023

The FTC’s action should help protect healthcare organizations by limiting deceptive or exaggerated promises of what a medical device or AI software can actually do. This action plan describes a multi-pronged approach to advance the Agency’s oversight of AI/ML-based medical software.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This article provides a very basic overview of a complex topic. Additional resources are listed at the end of this article. Case #1 : A 56-year-old man being treated for hypertension and diabetes requested a copy of his medical records before moving to a different state. Read the article in full. Read more about this case.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

If your practice is currently using a telebehavioral health approach for patient treatment, or if you organization is considering implementing this approach, we hope this article will give some food-for-thought on the topic. Under the compact, state medical boards would maintain licensure and disciplinary authority of providers.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

JULY 31, 2020

How Emergency Use Authorization of Medical Products Helps Provide Relief During a COVID-19 Major Crisis. In a major crisis like this, it is good to know that the FDA has a special authority to quickly allow marketing of medical products that can help diagnose, mitigate or treat this highly infectious disease.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 11, 2023

Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic (“FD&C”) Act – If an app includes a software function that meets the definition of a medical device under section 201(h) of the FD&C Act, the app may be subject to regulatory oversight by the FDA. Other Resources.

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SQA

JUNE 10, 2021

Brazilian Regulators Update Economic Monitoring Requirements for Some Medical Devices, 26 March 2021. ANVISA has issued new regulations regarding economic monitoring of certain device types in order to boost transparency and establish reference pricing for these products. Unique Device Identification (UDI) for medical devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

While this has created an opportunity for health systems to digitally transform their care delivery model, not all health systems have the right resources and the organizational support to drive this change. Choose the right device to get reliable patient data and reimbursement. Map physician workflows and win their confidence.

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The Digital Health Corner

APRIL 28, 2017

It is interesting to note that a 2012 report by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on this topic concluded that hospital consolidation increases healthcare costs and that physician-hospital consolidation has neither improved quality of care or reduced costs. Consolidation includes both human and material resource consolidation.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. He wears many devices at once, putting the techs to his tests, and figuring out just what works well, and for whom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

Dr. Roxana Lupu, chief medical information officer at Sanford Health, based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. ( @SanfordHealth ). Expanding the number of patients that can be monitored away from the hospital or clinic for medical conditions in order to enhance patient care and reduce readmissions. " Dr. Roxana Lupu, Sanford Health.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 1, 2019

As part of eMedicare, CMS created the “What’s covered” app, which lets people with Original Medicare, caregivers, and others quickly see on a mobile device whether Medicare covers a specific medical item or service. If they prefer to leaf through a book, the Medicare & You handbook continues to be a great resource. Seema Verma.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As usual, sites that are already flush with cash and well-endowed with resources can find more cost savings. ” How does all this relate to revenue, the topic of this article? What I found is that televisits don’t seem to make a big difference, either positive or negative, on the money clinicians are making.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we kick off a new year, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look back at some of the top resources, articles, videos, and podcasts we shared in 2022. Most Visited Healthcare IT Resource Pages. These resources are a lot of work to create and update, but we know that you all love them since you visit them a lot.

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SQA

DECEMBER 16, 2022

ANVISA’s Questions & Answers (Q&A) on Medical Cannabis for Clinical Investigations, 14 September 2022. Brazil’s ANVISA Announces Major Medical Device Registration Updates, 16 September 2022. China: National Medical Products Administration (NMPA). 07 Medical Diagnostic and Monitoring Equipment.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 15, 2022

Now, clinicians can seamlessly access patient electronic health records (EHRs), information and telehealth consultations in brilliant high definition via a secure wireless connection between the Samsung Smart Healthcare TV and a mobile device using ShareSafe’s content casting technology.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

Normative devices that allow the clearer regulation of the site’s own methodologies, developed by the Type III service (clinical laboratory). In August 2022, ANVISA published Resolution RDC 741/2022 , which sets the framework to consider other medical device market regulators’ authorizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

Realtime location systems (RTLS) have long been known to help hospitals with medical device management, but there is a new use-case that is growing in popularity and importance: addressing staff safety and duress. It’s not a topic we’ve spoken a lot about. Kapil, welcome to the program. [00:00:37]

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Remote patient monitoring, technological advances that impact the balance of where and how care happens, and temporary reimbursement enacted by government and payers for the sake of the pandemic are three hot topics in telemedicine today. There is a lot to be gained by the opportunity to pool care resources together virtually.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 16, 2023

Incorporating digital health early: I believe that incorporating digital health tools earlier in the prescription process and combining digital with traditional medication therapy will increase in 2023. Dr. Adrienne Boissy Chief Medical Officer at Qualtrics and Staff Neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies (DMEPOS) improper payments decreased an estimated $1.14 For one of the use cases under this project – called “Coverage Requirements and Documentation Rules Discovery” – the Da Vinci project proposes to develop a Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

They include: Jason Cherry, director of information systems technology services at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, South Carolina. ( @LexMedCtr ). For Cherry of Lexington Medical Center, the lessons he and his team learned when rapidly prototyping their telehealth solution were very important. Christopher J.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This helps nurses quickly respond to patient flow, staffing, and other capacity management issues on the fly without having to stop and dig for detailed information — because best of all, this type of solution is designed to run completely in the background of nurses’ tech devices.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2024

With legislation currently being drafted for nurses to receive the same reimbursement doctors and physicians do, this will likely become a top-of-mind topic in 2024. The recent Humana/Cigna news will be the first of many health plan mergers in 2024 as payers seek to align strategies and optimize resources.

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SQA

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Brazil’s New UDI Requirements for Medical Devices: Compliance Implications for Manufacturers, 02 August 2021. ANVISA has rolled out its proposed framework for Unique Device Identification (UDI) requirements. Three years for Class III (high risk) devices. Four years for Class II (moderate risk) devices.

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