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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Many healthcare systems around the world are overburdened. But what are they exactly and how could they contribute to a more efficient healthcare environment? How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Neil UW Medicine was one of the first healthcare systems on the front line of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. UW Medicine IT Services recommends healthcare organizations take the following actions now to prepare their IT services for COVID-19. Make patient screening tools accessible prior to presenting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Telehealth Workflow Workforce A balanced approach to deploying new IT that reduces the burden on employees and provides patients with enhanced services is key to stabilizing and advancing healthcare industry processes.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Patient Engagement Population Health Precision Medicine This is the second article in a series regarding process-based opportunities as the healthcare industry begins to emerge from the challenges of the pandemic. Widespread lack of access to broadband Internet necessary to facilitate telehealth. Implications for healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

While the entire healthcare industry is inching toward giving people more autonomy to manage their care, we can’t seem to hand over the keys just yet. The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 23, 2023

Phishing is one of the most common ways that malicious cyber actors target individuals to gain initial access to healthcare networks; however, contact may be made with healthcare employees over the Internet. Typosquatting may also be used to register domains similar to those used by healthcare organizations.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Demand for mental health services has shot through the roof as workers – especially healthcare workers – struggled with increased workloads and stress. Healthcare CIOs and CDOs have to now monitor the sector closely and constantly assess their risk exposures to startups and tech firms for signs of trouble.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

'Break the silos' has been a tag line in data management for a long time, and COVID-19 showed it needs to become reality. Interconnectivity and interoperability are becoming essential, if you want to access the data needed to speed up diagnoses and make real-time decisions. Therefore, you need a comprehensive plan.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 19, 2023

That goes for healthcare information, too. Most patients now have a smartphone and the internet right in their pocket or readily accessible at home, and patients expect, and deserve, to receive healthcare information that speaks their language, both literally and figuratively. According to the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

David Chou Since the arrival of the pandemic, healthcare organizations have faced a cultural shift. If we can seize this moment, we may be able to make this a uniquely transformative year for healthcare. Of course, in healthcare, some work – such as surgical procedures – must be conducted in a clinical setting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spread across the United States this spring, the demand for telehealth skyrocketed in turn – as did concerns about patient access to virtual care. "It hits harder those who are already struggling, who lack access to healthcare. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

From integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into healthcare and health data platforms to establishing robust data standards that reach beyond clinical settings to managing patient consent and increased patient access, it is fair to say that health data exchange and data management have many important intricacies worthy of careful attention.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment, or BEAD, Program means another mile of telehealth potential geographic market share. ACP gives qualifying homes up to $30/month – $75/month for Native American households – for Internet access plus a $100 subsidy for a computing device. billion has been awarded.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Feature More than ever before, healthcare organizations are working harder to prioritize the patient experience. News The future of healthcare: What 2022 could bring A look ahead at what the uptick in interest and usage of digital health will mean for the future of. Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Cam Roberson, VP at Beachhead Solutions Healthcare delivery organizations and those working with them that are still in business are either well aware of their duties under HIPAA, work with managed service providers that understand the law well, or…are lucky to have made it this far.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Of all industries, health care above all should provide accessible web sites to support people with disabilities or special needs. Furthermore, the field is getting more and more digital with wellness sites, telehealth, and fitness devices—so making them accessible is crucial to making health care accessible. are great advances.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Value-based care continues to take root in healthcare. This is why, as the new year approaches, Healthcare IT News has sat down with an expert in value-based care to get his views on what 2022 will hold for the payment system. The growing demands on clinical staff have led to staff burnout that threatens health access.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

Attention healthcare providers! Google Analytics & HIPAA Compliance The first step toward using Google Analytics while remaining HIPAA compliant is using Google Tag Manager (GTM). GTM allows you to manage tags or tracking codes from various sources across your website without having to code manually. If so, listen up.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Healthcare organizations face risk in not delivering exceptional consumer experiences. Michalene Elliott Kinsler Healthcare organizations face risk in not delivering exceptional consumer experiences. However, these relationships are increasingly tenuous.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. The year 2020 has been a year unlike any other year in our history.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Many of these treatments are drug-based gene therapies–- but they come with an extremely high price tag. These, of course, are dilemmas that healthcare policymakers have been struggling with for many years. The latest example–and most expensive medication to date– is bluebird bio’s recently-approved $2.8

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

David Chou Healthcare chief information officers had a lot to take in at HIMSS22 this past week. There were many new product and partnership announcements and insightful panels and discussions, but here are two critical takeaway themes from HIMSS22 relevant to healthcare decision-makers like you! Healthcare cloud is everywhere.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Handling patients’ protected health information is something healthcare providers do every day. These standards include mandating data protection in healthcare through physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect PHI. DLP Essential to Data Protection in Healthcare . What is HIPAA Data Loss Prevention?

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MRO Compliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Andrea Fox, senior editor of Healthcare IT News, a HIMSS TV publication, to discuss the future of balancing patient privacy and data sharing. However, the use of APIs in this process could present a potential privacy problem.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As the healthcare industry becomes more interconnected in response to a wide range of economic and societal factors, the landscape is changing for all parties involved, including payers, providers, and patients. In the traditional healthcare system, the price you pay for services depends on your insurance coverage ?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We can save so much money and time that's going into healthcare if we take full advantage of the telehealth and telemedicine tools. Real-time telehealth are activities happening “right here and now,” often involving medical or healthcare professionals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Telehealth Epilepsy Care Collaborative, or TECC, at Boston Medical Center was developed out of the charge led by the federal government’s Maternal and Child Health Bureau to improve access to high-quality care for children and youth with epilepsy, especially those facing health disparities or living in rural regions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 4, 2020

Telehealth In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story: The dramatic spikes in telehealth visits in March and April have dropped off, even as in-person visits have started climbing slowly. In recent conversations with healthcare executives across the country, I hear the same story.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

This transformation – which everyone had been predicting for years, but never really hit a tipping point until the pandemic – should be a boon for healthcare. Even a best-in-class, healthcare call center can typically only reach about 50% of a population list using the phone alone. . About Aaron Kaufman.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

healthcare system needs to aspire to and is working towards. Region Tag: Global Edition. Providing patient-centered, equitable and evidence-based health care is increasingly recognized as a goal the U.S. The CDSiC gives the field a unique opportunity to tackle the cross-cutting PC CDS technical challenges. [1]

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

PCN clinical directors are keen to sustain the new online ways of working by making virtual-consultation platforms interoperable with the rest of the system so that patient data can be easily accessed by different healthcare professionals and exchanged between different IT systems.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security. Achieve health equity. Address social determinants of health.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

JANUARY 12, 2024

Fire Administration found electrical malfunctions were the leading cause of uncontained fires in healthcare facilities between 2012 and 2014, accounting for 22% of all uncontained fires. Take time now to ensure you’re in compliance with the following rules: Practice must have immediate and on-site access to a breaker box to shut down power.

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Compliancy Group

JULY 18, 2022

Demonstrating their continued focus on right of access violations, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced 11 settlements and one HIPAA fine for medical practices across a wide variety of specialties. Employee misunderstanding of HIPAA right of access. Become compliant today! Learn More! ×

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 23, 2023

Virtual Private Network (VPN) Solutions provides electronic medical record management services to healthcare providers and Associates in Dermatology used its TouchChart software to host patient data. Since a threat actor would have access to students’ unique OSIS numbers, case numbers, and therapy histories, the requests would be convincing.

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