Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

It's not just caregivers and clinicians who have had to master the new modality for delivering care; healthcare consumers and their extended network of family and friends now have to adapt to telehealth as a new normal in accessing and receiving care. Who is my telehealth consumer? Consider those who reside in rural areas.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2022

Similarly data driven systems can improve population health and resource allocation , while AI can improve accuracy, reproducibility and speed of services. Is technology helping or hindering greater equality in outcomes and access? Region Tag: EMEA. Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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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. Focus sharpens on data quality and usability.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Widespread lack of access to broadband Internet necessary to facilitate telehealth. On that last determinant, when nonurgent, in-person care came to a halt and telehealth began to dominate, many of the elderly and poor found themselves shut out of ongoing healthcare services because of lack of access to broadband Internet.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 28, 2022

At present, health systems have robust analytics tools at hand to extract data from their electronic health records, but they can do a great deal more. Now is a good time for CIOs to look at ways to create a perfect platform that digs into a much more comprehensive array of data. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Similarly, in primary care some clinical directors have faced issues accessing and using virtual private networks (VPNs) that connect them to the necessary clinical applications to continue to serve patients. This in turn restricts how responsive services and systems can be to patients. Looking beyond COVID-19.

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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. Data can show factors like how effective a drug is in reducing total treatment costs over a lifetime or how many people may be able to avoid surgery or other procedures by using a certain drug.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits. But today, health systems aren’t just reluctant to grant patients administrative access to their care. Vik Krishnan, General Manager of Intrado Digital Workflows.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 16, 2023

It collects and stores user data, including protected health information (PHI) , which makes it subject to HIPAA compliance rules and regulations. Google Analytics & HIPAA Compliance The first step toward using Google Analytics while remaining HIPAA compliant is using Google Tag Manager (GTM). Find Out More! Please Wait.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2023

HIPAA regulators are now changing their enforcement practices to take that perception of luck out of the equation—and force every organization that touches sensitive patient data to get serious about cybersecurity.

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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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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. Most of those files did not contain patient data, but VPN Solutions said some of the files could be linked to patient names.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Platforms: Platforms are required to aggregate data and facilitate communication between patients, physicians, and caregivers. Facilities and providers can choose to reduce the noise created by large volumes of data from personal devices by requesting data at specified intervals only.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recommends ten practices that anyone handling PHI needs to implement, the fourth of which is HIPAA data loss prevention. What is HIPAA Data Loss Prevention? . One of these safeguards calls for organizations to back up their data, to enable access to patient data in case a breach occurs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2023

Below are several initiatives that organizations have indicated they are embarking upon in order to enable improved operational efficiency and patient care: Patient access. Leverage SMS text based reminder/nudge messages, data exchange with regional partners, enhanced use of patient portals Financial efficiency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 11, 2020

” He also highlighted the issue of interoperability due to Spain's system of 17 autonomous regions - in contrast to the UK with its more centralised system enabling easier sharing of data and protocols. “It takes time and imagination to find accessible solutions to engage patients digitally,” she continued.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Microsoft's Azure health cloud includes a data service that brings together clinical, imaging, medical devices, and other datasets. Examples include using Teams for virtual care visits, Teams integration with Cerner electronic health record, and additional enhancements on the Azure Health Data Services using AI.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2022

Health IT and racial justice: Expanding access, ending disparities, empowering communities. News Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity Experts from IQVIA say increasing diversity of data sources improves access to care and exposes. By HIMSS Media | December 01, 2021.

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Healthcare Blog

JUNE 29, 2023

Keywords and keyphrases can be tagged to guidelines, allowing employees to find what they need even when they don’t know the title. Role-based Policies: Create rules within the software that determine who can access policies, editing permissions, and approvals. 24/7 Cloud-based Access: With 99.9%

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Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” First, the law.

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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. Secure health data (updating privacy/HIPAA). Note that WHO’s approach to digital health adoption includes equity, access, palliative care, privacy, and security.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter. For this report, Brandwatch utilized only English-language public Twitter data.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

PC CDS incorporates patient-provided information – such as data from medical devices, wearables and patient-reported outcome surveys, as well as social determinants of health and patient preference data – directly in the office, home, or other community-based setting. data content) and syntactic (i.e.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

During the pandemic some data sharing restrictions were relaxed. These included data from the RCGP research and surveillance centre which saw the number of participating practices double. Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

But recent data suggest that mental health app downloads have declined by a third since last year. Region Tag: Global Edition. Indeed, that sense of optimism would pervade the startup ecosystem for the next year and a half. A couple of the more prominent startups in the space have run into trouble.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 20, 2023

Still, many organizations have not yet invested the time and resources required to thoughtfully develop an enterprise digital strategy that positions CRM as the enabler of communication, engagement, care access, and delivery. The default for many organizations has been to use the CRM tools included with their EHR.

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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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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2022

Age-old challenges like access to care, chronic disease management, and adherence to annual well visits and routine preventive screenings should now be easily addressed with the same efficiency we’re seeing in other aspects of our consumer lives. We had all the data, and we knew exactly which members were at the highest risk.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2023

And requests for patient data are predicted to intensify as health plans work to reduce per-member/per-month costs, earn higher STAR ratings, and meet the CMS 2030 value-based care goals. Furthermore, the 21 st Century Act opens the door for greater availability to clinical data among patients, providers, and other requesters such as payers.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

"Speed" is how quickly data can go from Point A to B. "Capacity" refers to your data being able to move from Point A to B. Down with data caps! Big cable and telecom companies set cap limits on the amount of data customers can download for web content, audio and video streaming and applications.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

HIPAA aims to protect patient privacy, safeguarding their entire medical history, information about medical services and treatments they may seek, and other related data. As such, for healthcare digital marketers, the challenge of separating PHI from marketing behavioral data and other non-PHI patient data was manageable.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

the opposite of a simple price tag. A predicted increase in high-risk pregnancies as a result of abortion access restrictions puts more pressure on a strained maternal health system, as OB wards are shuttering across low-income and rural areas. That includes improving price transparency. About Anish Sebastian.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

Epic, although having limited usage data, is exclusively employed by LTC facilities owned by Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs), which represent a small segment of the market. However, respondents note that the introduction of new technology often comes with a price tag.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

An open standard called FHIR, which was initially drafted in 2011, makes it easier than ever for legacy systems and new apps to exchange data. Additionally, FHIR offers a variety of alternatives for data exchange between systems. Data exchange proceeds more efficiently as a result, and it takes less time to new data exchange partners.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

" Store-and-forward telehealth is collecting medical data, digital images, etc. "Passive" telehealth refers to storing and accessing digital knowledge bases, health and wellness Web content, and interactive software applications that help us understand, prevent, treat, or recover from threats to our physical and mental health.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Insights into firms that are moderately validated are as follows: Huron Provides Highly Rated, Consistent Experiences; Galen Healthcare & PwC (Both Limited Data) Partner with Clients & Exceed Expectations Huron clients view the firm as a flexible, responsive partner that is easy to work with and driven by results.

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