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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. Its ability to provide real-time information and automate processes has increased its adoption in the healthcare industry. RFID technology addresses security and privacy concerns even further providing various measures.

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With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. What device and what network is the consumer (and the provider) on?

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Not All Surprises Are Presents: Preventing Surprise Medical Bills under the No Surprises Act

McBrayer Law Blog

Specifically, The Act prevents surprise medical bills when patients receive emergency care or are treated by an out-of-network provider at an in-network hospital or ambulatory surgical center. More > Tags: Healthcare Provider , Healthcare Providers , hospitals , insurance , No Surprises Act , out of network provider.

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How One Rural Healthcare Provider Improved Its Wi-Fi—and Improved Patient Health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Sponsor: Education Networks of America Primary topic: Telehealth Topic: Telehealth Resource Central: White Papers External url: [link] Thumbnail: Body: Enterprise Taxonomy: Short Headline: How One Rural Healthcare Provider Improved Its Wi-Fi—and Improved Patient Health Region Tag: Global Edition

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Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex. The ability to make referrals across care settings and to close the loop is critically important in treating the whole person.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare It News

"We recently provided testimony before the Missouri legislature about the ties between digital equity and telehealth, how not having internet connections at the requisite speeds means you can't have telehealth", says McClain Bryant Macklin, director of policy and strategic initiatives at the Health Forward Foundation.

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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Unlike a weather event or a shooting, our response to COVID-19 is a continuously evolving process that has no endpoint and requires us to adapt by the hour," said Dr. Jane Fellner, a UW Medicine physician who provides clinical guidance for EHR changes. This will allow patients and providers to flow between different sites.

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