Telehealth

 
Deloitte: Docs underutilize various health technologies
May 15, 2013 |
Erin McCann
When analyzed by practice type and age, EHR and meaningful use statistics show lower attestation rates among solo practitioners and physicians over 60 years old. But it's not just EHRs. mHealth use lags, too.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging
May 13, 2013 |
Erin Davis
Greg Billings
When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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OHN's 12 health IT best practices, part 10: Credentialing and privileging
May 13, 2013 |
Erin Davis
Greg Billings
When timing, policy, and people align, great things can happen.
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AHIMA offers mHealth app best practices
May 8, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
The association's guide offers several recommendations for maximizing mobile health applications, privacy and security tips among them.
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Telemedicine ROI on stage at ATA
May 7, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
"It's right for the patients," UPMC's Andrew Watson said at the show. And telemedicine is already proving profitable at the health system.
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ATA gets underway in Austin
May 6, 2013 |
Mike Miliard
Change is happening fast as the industry moves from knowing how to do telemedicine, to accomplishing it at scale.
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Vanderbilt opens mHealth app contest
May 3, 2013 |
Erin McCann
The university hopes to entice software developers to create an application that makes patient clinical summaries user-friendly.
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Heading to Austin for ATA? 10 popular attractions
May 1, 2013 |
Eric Wicklund
mHIMSS Editor Eric Wicklund outlines some of the things attendees can do while in the so-called "Live Music Capital of the World."
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Commentary: Better communication for improved outcomes, reduced readmissions
April 26, 2013 |
Andrew Brooks, M.D., F.A.C.S
Andrew Brooks, MD, on the opportunity that a raft of new technologies, and tech-savvy patients, present to hospitals and providers if they can communicate better.
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Perspective: HIE, 'omics' and personalized medicine
April 26, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Associate Editor Anthony Brino on the intersection of genomics, health information exchange and more personalized medicine. Hint: A phone reading hearts rates and other vital signs.
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Legislators get look at 'extraordinary' mHealth technologies
April 16, 2013 |
Eric Wicklund
During CES on the Hill, HealthSpot's walk-in kiosk will showcase 22 products addressing pressing technology and policy issues.
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mHealth tools need to be financially self-sustainable, report finds
April 8, 2013 |
Paul Cerrato
No longer a supplemental way to access information, mobile devices are a central part of life. Now comes the transition from mHealth initiatives funded by grants to lasting financial models.
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HIPAA Compliant Hosting
September 25, 2012 | White Papers
Healthcare providers must assure patients the utmost security, confidentiality, and integrity of sensitive information. This means maintaining total HIPAA compliance within their organization, including healthcare IT infrastructure. This white paper elucidates HIPAA compliant IT infrastructure, from physical and environmental controls, to appropriate guidelines between a Covered Entity and data center provider when outsourcing. It also helps clarify key points including service provider qualifications, and why Business Associate Agreements are integral for establishing accountability with partners.
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Case Study: Blood Systems Expands Remote Access Connectivity to Prepare for Disaster
September 9, 2012 | White Papers
For more than 60 years, Blood Systems has been offering its life-giving services throughout the Western U.S. Blood Systems wanted to optimize its network for business value, migrating to the latest WAN services. Read this white paper to learn how Blood Systems increased flexibility and now support business continuity requirements so the nation’s blood supply wouldn’t be interrupted in the face of a natural disaster or pandemic.
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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Best Practices for the Implementation of Telepresence in a Telehealth Solution
June 29, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
Join Michael Young, director of Telemedicine at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, as he shares best practices in implementing telepresence as part of the telehealth solution.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
May 10, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Super Docs, security challenges, EHRs under the gun, and the continuing upward trajectory of meaningful use payments.
Indiana Senate expands Medicaid telemedicine
March 8, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
The Indiana Senate has unanimously passed a bill expanding Medicaid reimbursement for telemedicine. Advocates hope expanded use of tele-consultations and more mobile medicine in general will help fill rural provider gaps.
Mobile HIX enrollment: A critical asset for ACA success
February 13, 2013 |
Lucy Streett
A large percentage of the Americans that the Affordable Care Act aims to bring into the insurance pool access the Web primarily through their smartphones. For the ACA to achieve its potential, federal and state governments must reach those citizens where it's most convenient for the consumer.
Telehealth and the broadband problem
January 24, 2013 |
Tony Bardo
Remote diagnoses are only the beginning of telehealth's promise. If we can overcome the lack of understanding about broadband.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
December 13, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
ONC's annual meetup, Privacy & Security Forum, mHealth Summit and the industrial revolution ... it's This Week in Government Health IT.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
November 30, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
This week in Government Health IT ... the mHealth Summit, NeHC's new tool, CDC builds out BioSense, our new cloud computing eBook and more.
BYOD and finger smudges on the line between home and work
November 21, 2012 |
Adam Bazer
In addition to security concerns, employees that sync mobile devices to the corporate network are actively defining new values pertaining to professional and personal lives.
Will smorgasbord approach get more patients engaged?
October 10, 2012 |
Jeff Rowe
Looking at three new tools designed to help patients become more involved in their health.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
September 28, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Surprising poll findings, Kerry's MITCH and integrated care, proposed mobile office at FDA, HIE disaster planning, Obama and Romney face off in NEJM, and a hole in the ACO model.
Some of the reasons so many health org's lack mHealth goals
September 25, 2012 |
Eric Wicklund
It shouldn't be a surprise that approximately 20 percent of healthcare companies that are adopting mobile technologies do not have clear intentions. mHIMSS Editor Eric Wicklund dissects the root causes.
Allscripts adds telehealth platform to EHR
August 20, 2012 |
Jeff Rowe
Will it be prompting by policymakers or technological innovation that ultimately moves providers and patients into the digital future?
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
July 20, 2012 |
Tom Sullivan
Thunderstorms, headaches, building privacy into health apps, EHR market poised for consolidation, and the all-too-abundant reasons why health org's overpay for IT.