Health Care Compliance Brief

The great digital health reset – and how IT leaders should plan for what’s next

Healthcare It News

MAY 20, 2022

Cloud Computing Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Workforce As a high-flying startup ecosystem comes back down to earth, health systems with the financial resources will be able to double down on their digital transformation efforts. Let’s take the example of behavioral health.

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Why voice recognition is the new competitive battleground in healthcare's digital transformation

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Artificial Intelligence Connected Health Electronic Health Records (EHR, EMR) Patient Engagement Workflow As ambient technologies improve, additional use cases to leverage voice will emerge – that leaves us with the question of how patients and physicians are responding to voice-enabled tools in their healthcare encounters.

Doctors

Doctors Hospitals

With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 9, 2020

" As health systems adjusted to dramatic increases in virtual visits, they experienced a steep learning curve in a very short time. The most mature health systems recognize the importance of context and design their telehealth programs accordingly. The much-discussed "digital divide" should disabuse us of this notion.

Elder Care

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

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.

US Department of Health and Human Services

US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 COVID-19 Vaccine Hospitals

Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. While nothing can beat an in-person experience, physicians can check in on them digitally, through remote patient monitoring tools or video consults.

Health Outcomes

Health Outcomes Hospitals HIPAA Nurses

Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Patient engagement and behavior change platform CareCognitics is now available on the athenahealth Marketplace.

Medical Billing

Medical Billing Hospitals

My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

APRIL 17, 2023

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The bill expands privacy protections for Washington State’s health citizens beyond HIPAA’s provisions. ” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses.

HIPAA

HIPAA Hospitals

Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

HIPAA

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

With much of the country shut down earlier this year, the typical number of weekly virtual care visits grew from dozens, to hundreds, to thousands at hospitals and health systems across the country. This put a lot of pressure on the physicians who oversee telehealth programs at these providers: the telehealth managers. " Dr. Lisa R.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine COVID-19 US Department of Health and Human Services Doctors

What Does The New Tracking Guidance from HHS Mean for Digital Marketers’ Technology Decisions?

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

John Berndt, SVP of Health North America, Valtech Also known as the Kennedy–Kassebaum Act, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) defines and regulates individuals’ medical records and other individually identifiable health information, collectively known as patient healthcare information (PHI).

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HIPAA Pharmaceutical Industry Electronic Medical Records Compliance

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

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. Bardy Diagnostics.

COVID-19

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at Kno2 , has spent her career in healthcare IT, so it’s very meaningful to hear her speak of Kno2’s intention to become a designated QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) under the TEFCA, asserting, “This is a turning point”. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful.

Health Outcomes

Health Outcomes Hospitals

Health Provider News – February 3, 2023

Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NATIONAL Biden plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring in a major shift to federal response Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11 Can a drugstore be your only doctor?

US Department of Health and Human Services

US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Nursing Homes Nurses

Health Provider News

Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

NATIONAL 79 percent have positive outlook for senior living and care: NIC 12 key legal issues impacting health systems AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack A conversation about the HHS plan on AI in health care A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America.

Nursing Homes

Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Hospitals

Health Care Compliance Brief

The great digital health reset – and how IT leaders should plan for what’s next

Why voice recognition is the new competitive battleground in healthcare's digital transformation

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With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

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Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

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