Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 26, 2021

In 2019, Gerald Champion Regional Medical Center in Alamogordo, New Mexico, started looking at telehealth options to provide its patients with an on-demand virtual care service with a focus on urgent care-type needs. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. Gerald Champion opted to go with the telehealth technology of its EHR vendor.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

I've seen it said before that year-ahead predictions are like weather reports: Everyone reads them, but almost no one looks back later to see whether they were accurate. Certainly, few could have guessed, as we rang out 2019, just what 2020 would have in store for the U.S. healthcare system.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 30, 2022

The pandemic disrupted many industries, but few experienced the level of change seen in healthcare. During the pandemic, the healthcare industry evolved from slowly adopting technology to implementing new technology strategies virtually overnight to continue patient care, most notably through telehealth.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

This is the latest in Healthcare IT News' series of feature stories on lessons learned during the COVID-19 era. This is the latest in Healthcare IT News' series of feature stories on lessons learned during the COVID-19 era. And what happened? You can read the others here and here.).

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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. Caroline Jerome, a designer who is a partner and chief creative officer at TBGA , pointed out to me that digital technologies have expanded the options available to disabled people. are great advances.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Adding to the situation are challenges related to added technology, the need to be virtual and to meet patients where they are, and the need to keep up with constantly changing information and landscape in terms of what our patients need from us. And yet, in healthcare, it feels like the promise of technology hasn’t quite hit it yet.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

He was also one of the nation’s first epidemiologists, a topic for another time – but if you’re keen to explore, you can check out his gargantuan two-volume History of Epidemics and Pestilential Diseases published in 1799). Turning to ChatGPT some 123 years later, I queried, “What is a health plan?” is getting fuzzier by the day.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

How can you minimize the effect of this trend on your healthcare organization? We'll also look at how those healthcare workforces are changing – and how they ought to be changing – in the face of automation, value-based reimbursement, telemedicine, consumerism and other emerging trends and new technologies.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – A new dawn is on the horizon in healthcare. – Market research leader Forrester’s latest report explores 5 key predictors for healthcare in 2023. . – Market research leader Forrester’s latest report explores 5 key predictors for healthcare in 2023.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The implementation of remote healthcare — telehealth services — reformed medicine. The infamous pandemic accelerated the growth of the already substantially expanding industry. Pandemic allowed those who were hesitant to try out telemedicine. Nevertheless, telemedicine is a part of healthcare, not immune to general issues.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 31, 2024

Report: Security Breaches in Healthcare (Direct Download PDF, 1.9MB, 16 pages) An unwanted record was set in 2023 with 725 large security breaches in healthcare reported to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), beating the record of 720 healthcare security breaches set the previous year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 23, 2021

Robert Bart, who has served as the chief medical information officer at Pittsburgh-based UPMC since 2017 , spoke with Healthcare IT News about his to-do list during this busy past year and a half, and what he's eyeing in terms of clinical priorities as he looks toward the next year and beyond.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated health care providers’ and plans’ investment in digital technologies while reducing capital spending on new physical assets, we learn in Building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. In July 2020, Punit Renjen.

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Compliancy Group

AUGUST 19, 2022

On Friday afternoon, July 15, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced 11 enforcement actions against healthcare providers across the country for alleged violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule right of access provisions. The patient filed a complaint with OCR in April 2019. Following the Facts.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

HIPAA Journal is conducting interviews with healthcare professionals, compliance professionals, and industry service providers to find out more about how their experiences with HIPAA, their successes, and the challenges they have and continue to face with HIPAA compliance. What was your first position? Tovino, JD, Ph.D.,

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Dossier

MARCH 8, 2022

Our healthcare system has been hit particularly hard. experienced nursing shortages prior to the beginning of the pandemic in 2019, they were exacerbated when the pandemic hit. about 1 in 5 healthcare workers have left their jobs since the pandemic began. Is our healthcare system teetering on the brink of collapse?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

The following is a guest article by Liza Dzhezhora, Healthcare IT Analyst at Itransition. We’ll look into the matter. . What’s wrong with patient portals? healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. What’s more, quite often. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements.

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

“Big Tech has the capability to disrupt healthcare, though the complexity of healthcare ecosystems is not making it easy for these companies,” according to Big Tech & Digital Health , a detailed update from HealthXL published last week. which were acquisitions.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2021

” Across all plans, consumers’ Net Promoter Scores (NPS) have increased year over year since 2019 when they hit a low of 11, now up 7 points in 2021 to 18. .” Check out what providers have been doing with their telehealth platforms, shown in the chart. Together, the two reports from J.D. Power 2021 U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Here’s what I wrote. from someone noting Apple fans’ brand-love.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The healthcare industry is now closer than ever to its quest for true interoperable data exchange. The rule requires that all healthcare payer organizations participating in a CMS program allow members to download and share their data using API’s (Application Programming Interface).

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Power has undertaken a survey on consumer satisfaction with 31 telehealth providers across 15 measures, which will be published in November 2019. I’ll also weave in the latest insights from the ATA 2019 State of the States report updating legislative/regulatory telemedicine activity at the U.S. State level. One-half of U.S.

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

to Study Treatments for Vascular Abnormalities Federal Appeals Court Hears Arguments on Nation’s First Ban on Gender-affirming Care for Minors Jason Demke Hired as COO at Mercy Hospital Fort Smit Pulaski Tech Awarded $5.7M

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Health Law RX

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

On September 2021, it called out the health app industry for failing to understand the agency’s Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR) and for not disclosing its breaches. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) didn’t mince words. GoodRx agreed to pay $1.5 million in connection with the action, but has not admitted to any wrongdoing.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 9, 2023

During what may be seen as the utopian period for telemedicine – the COVID-19 pandemic – telemedicine lived its gilded age. But it has offered technological advancements that are taking better care of people today and will set up healthcare workers for crises in the future. That thinking is dangerous, almost lazy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

While juggling all of these challenges during this most unusual period, executives have learned many valuable lessons. That's the theme of this ongoing feature story series, where Healthcare IT News talks with IT leaders to focus on new lessons learned and how the executives will be applying those lessons today and into the future.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Relevant matters are hereby announced as follows: As of 01 December 2022, the Electronic Certificates of Documentation for Export of APIs to the EU and Certificate of a Pharmaceutical Product will be put into use. The electronic certificate and the paper version are equally authentic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

Here's what he's learned so far about their feelings on virtual care. Dr. Archie Adams Sometime in 2019, I was multi-tasking and racing between exam rooms amid a controlled chaos that defines an average day in my busy clinic. My clinic is situated in a suburb surrounded by many industries and in a densely populated community.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2022

Driven by headlines and incomplete, misleading data that favor a telehealth narrative, health systems and healthcare investors must start asking “who” is actually supporting waning demand. The healthcare industry is no stranger to the 80/20 rule. What data is being used for analysis, and.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has put the healthcare industry through the wringer. Healthcare executives up and down the line have learned many valuable lessons from their experiences this past year. Tina Esposito, chief health information officer at Advocate Aurora Health, based in Downers Grove, Illinois.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 19, 2023

Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

As the cost of capital went lower and lower during the decade, valuations steadily rose. Further, when looking at 8-month trailing data (see the chart on page 3), valuations today continue to be ~70% higher compared to the 8-month trailing multiple from January 2018. Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference (the 40 th annual!), I really had to look at the shadows and not the backgrounds. Morgan Conference – COVID-19, the jittery stock market, the future of Medicare Advantage and recent industry changes. Sitting in front of my computer this year for the first day of the 2022 J.P.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 14, 2022

Morgan Annual Healthcare Conference for 2022. And since the conference was virtual, what better topic to start us off today than a consideration of the new Virtual-First trend that surfaced in 2021. Virtual-First: United Healthcare and Babylon Health. During Day 4 of the J.P. Babylon entered the U.S.

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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.

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2023

During a visit to the establishments, evidence of the manufacture of herbal medicines without registration and with a fraudulent label was observed, as the materials were produced in an environment with inadequate hygiene and sanitary conditions. and Rodrigues & Florindo Saúde e Vida Ltda. For a list of the products seized, click here.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2020

The company was acquired by ResMed exactly one year ago during CES 2019. Healthcare is getting serious at #CES2020, blurring into the medical and FDA regulated turf which Omron pioneered last year launching its 80+-patented blood pressure watch, the HeartGuide. Forbes ran a column on CES 2020 discussing AI in hearing and vision.

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