Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 22, 2020

"COVID has taught us a lot, particularly around bandwidth and supply chain," said Gordon Krass, CEO of inventory-management-system vendor IntelliGuard. "If you can tag a nail clipper with RFID technology," as many big-box stores do, "you can do it for medication," he said. Manage supply chains effectively.

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SQA

JULY 19, 2023

It has been such an amazing experience getting exposure to all our client’s challenges and successes. This is the basis for all his goals , from the maximum payload the rocket should be able to carry to how quickly you should be able to 3D – print an engine component out of Inconel. In short, they are bought into the mission.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

Are you using Google Analytics on your website? The US Health and Human Services has issued updated guidance on online tracking, and it’s bad news for those of us in the medical field. There are work arounds you can use to ensure your use of Google Analytics complies with HIPAA. If so, listen up.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. What happens to us as children then sets the personal stage for us as adults. Follow the conference on Twitter using the hashtag #PrevCon2021 and the organizational tag @SafeKids]. Yes: everyone is awesome.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

By all accounts, the last two years have accelerated consumer adoption of digital tools for managing nearly every aspect of our lives. Odds are good you used a digital payment method, alongside the 93% of consumers who say they’ve used tools like Venmo and Zelle over the last year. Aaron Kaufman, EVP at Carenet Health.

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MedTrainer

AUGUST 19, 2022

Women’s Health Connecticut has been with MedTrainer since 2018 and currently has 1,712 employees using MedTrainer to be more efficient and augment time for patient care. When Rivera became Director, the first item at the top of her to-do list was evaluating compliance at all 40 practices. Others were using their biohazard company.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. Please include any relevant links and let us know if news is under embargo.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

By all indications, the digital transformation of healthcare is fully underway and it's time to party like it's 1999. What the explosion in VC funding data doesn't tell us, however, is how all these heavily-funded startups are doing in the market. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

"It helps to strengthen the patient/physician relationship, as all content and care protocols are prescribed and shaped by the patient's physicians. Today, 22 of 27 of the center's surgeons are on the platform, including all sports medicine, spine and total joint surgeons.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early forays into the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) tagging in the healthcare industry were plagued with issues. “The two biggest misconceptions I’ve heard when it comes to using embedded RFID technology in healthcare is that it’s too slow and too expensive,” said Isabell.

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Medisys Compliance

AUGUST 23, 2022

Physicians and Healthcare Providers across the US are always in need of excellent attention to their revenue cycle management, which cannot be disregarded in any situation. The new standards and coding revisions, however, may have a detrimental effect on the reimbursement on the claims submitted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

The adoption of digital tools was seen across all sectors; it has been particularly accelerated in primary care. The next step of embedding this large-scale change may be less ‘sexy’ than the rapid, agile innovation that brought us here.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Bringing greater transparency to how PC CDS is developed from clinical guidelines can only increase PC CDS adoption and use. Including patient input in all phases of PC CDS development. Region Tag: Global Edition. Providing patient-centered, equitable and evidence-based health care is increasingly recognized as a goal the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In addition to providing doctors with relief from unnecessary administrative burden, patients are looking to DPC for higher quality healthcare with a transparent price tag. DPC is medicine how it used to be, just doctor and patient. The broken system is accelerating the growth of DPC, which saw membership across the U.S.

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. In Europe, where health citizens are covered by the GDPR for privacy across all sorts of data, people have rights and responsibilities covering all data for health purposes and beyond. and much of the world. In the U.S.,

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SQA

MARCH 7, 2023

By the way… this isn’t a retirement note at all. Thank you for all your support over the years, it has been a pleasure being your leader for 27 years. I would also like to thank our clients who have truly partnered with us to act as a unified team, accomplishing goals that would have otherwise been out of reach.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached. I fully expect and embrace that CMS and other payers will soon hold us accountable for improving clinical outcomes for minority populations, and we are ready for that.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m happy to write this as I’m being thoroughly entertained by all the athletes competing for the Gold from countries around the world. As a side note, I loved watching all the countries represented where we have an Associate and/or client presence. Wins & Challenges. Summer Greetings! Record Number of Audits Scheduled.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. Welcome back to my ABCovid-19 Journal, which I created/curated in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. M is for mask.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 25, 2022

The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the resolution of eleven investigations in its Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Right of Access Initiative, bringing the total number of these enforcement actions to thirty-eight since the initiative began.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

We’re relying on technology to help us learn about what best works for consumer experience. Deborah spends one-third of her time in China, these days, and gave us the benefit of her learnings from Asia and retail innovation. The elephant in the room all day, I felt and said, was privacy — or lack thereof.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. This was all very new to patients, who already had the stress of the pandemic as a constant in their lives, she added. "We rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks."

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

And even in our most cynical moments, we can all hearken back to our grandmothers’ kitchen table wisdom for dealing with skin issues, the flu, and broken hearts. Doing so would cause us to pay a lot more for it than we do today.”. Globally, health care trust hit 67, and in the US, 61. Combe Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Joyoti Goswami COVID-19 has spurred telehealth and remote patient monitoring adoption across the United States, with 36 percent of the US consumers now using telehealth to replace healthcare visits. To ensure these providers make the best use of the available resources while planning for the long term, CIOs must consider the following.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 19, 2021

"As I conceptualized my launch of the Indiana Hernia Center in the face of all the developing barriers to private practice entry, it was clear that we would need a disruptive Uber-like model to deliver low-overheard, efficient, quality care that would revive the doctor-patient relationship and generate a web presence second to none.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2022

When Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that ‘all men are created equal,’ he captured the essential concept of equality on which the US Constitution is based. Some of us will live long lives in relatively good health, while others will succumb to the disease. Take breast cancer as an example.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

My work with healthcare enterprises suggests that 80-90% of all outpatient visits could become "virtualized" in some way. Digital front door apps are all the rage. The pandemic has made us all afraid to touch any surface exposed to the public. If anything, the actual shift in spend could be much higher.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

They’re going to join us today to talk about some of the current regulatory and legal environment for telemedicine and, in particular, online subscription services and some of the OIG, DOJ, and FTC investigations and review that have begun to commence. We had all these rule waivers across the board. Nate Lacktman. Nate Lacktman.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

So how do we use technology to bridge the gap? If all I did was take the existing system and built a parallel system that was virtual, does that really solve anything? " And then, between all that, you've got a whole bunch of communication and logistics to need to figure out which provider you should actually see.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

You all have seen the many published articles and studies detailing the effect of the pandemic leading to significantly increased anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. I believe we all need frequency of treatment to effectively rewire our brains into something different and better. We all need someone to care for us.

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SQA

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We make sure they get exactly where they are trying to go , following their preferred route, in style and comfort. “Against All Odds” Another trait I admire about Rocket Lab is that they punch above their weight class. Geographic factors aside, SQA shares some of this “against all odds” philosophy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Before Pennsylvania announced a statewide shelter-at-home policy, Geisinger acted to move all nonclinical staff to a predominantly remote workforce. This work has enabled us to support both clinicians directly for in-patient care and nonclinical employees as they transitioned to working from home. The silver lining.

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Many of us have experienced a prior authorization (PA) process – when a doctor requests approval from a health insurance company before providing a medical service or treatment. According to the 2020 CAQH index , PA is the single largest expense for the healthcare industry with a total price tag estimated at about $767 million annually.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I recently sat down with Bell in Kno2’s Boise office to chat all things TEFCA. I’ll be honest, it was refreshing to hear a President & Co-Founder of a healthcare IT company celebrating the dropping of the word “interoperability” from their tag line. And as COVID taught us, so much more….

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Clinicians Taking Responsibility Naturally, the medical profession can’t fix all SDoH. A Mandate to Address SDoH According to Hillit Meidar-Alfi, founder and chief executive officer of Spatially Health , value-based care models are pushing healthcare providers to use SDoH.

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SQA

MAY 24, 2021

First I want to convey my best wishes to all the Mothers out there for the recent Mother’s Day! Who knows, but they’re a client that we’re very proud of and with new additions to our team they’re going to be a strategic partner that really needs us to step up. Wins & Challenges. Spring greetings! It feels pretty cool.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

All signs point to the PHE extending for another 90-day period until January 2023 because the 60 day advance notice wasn’t given in August , but the president’s latest statement indicates this could be the final renewal, and the PHE may finally expire in the new year. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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