Many virtual care platforms claim to be EHR integrated. But often, there are many versions of this truth. As many provider groups are currently looking for telehealth solutions that are EHR integrated, we wanted to provide some clarity around the fundamental elements that define EHR integration.
Today, leadership at the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) stated that use of virtual care is here to stay. Almost all providers who would entertain virtual health delivery in response to the COVID pandemic have signed onto “a” system at this point.
Medical providers who offer and promote virtual health for their patients can differentiate themselves as leaders during this time when practice volume is largely down across the board. Virtual care done right creates new revenue streams …
Since the COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders were announced across the US in March, the use of virtual care technologies for patient visits within ambulatory clinics has increased from under 10% to over 70%. During the first weeks of March, providers scrambled to simply find any virtual care technologies to help keep their “doors” open to their patients.
Last week, Practice Fusion, an electronic health records (EHR) company, was fined $145 million for setting up a business arrangement that violated the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. This law prevents anyone from offering, soliciting, paying, or receiving anything of value in order to induce referrals or generate federal healthcare business.
Remote patient monitoring (RPM) devices – fitness watches, blood pressure, cardio monitors – are growing in popularity as a way to gather and correlate data outside of a traditional clinical setting and share up-to-the-minute data with care providers.
2020 looks to a landmark year for finalized regulations dictating how health data can be exchanged. Health technology entrepreneurs must understand the regulatory landscape of how care can profitably be delivered.
Almost a third of the US population will travel during the holidays. With flu season already in full swing, tracking flu outbreaks is vital to caregivers of small children and the elderly, in addition to those with compromised immunity.
Are you building an application that allows an individual or a provider a comprehensive view of a person’s health care journey? Have you run into data access barriers when trying to link into a person’s health data from a hospital system’s electronic health record (EHR) system? The federal government will soon release new rules that may open access to this coveted data – helping you provide a fuller value to your company’s digital health solution.
With almost 20% of our nation’s GDP tied to health care, an often complex and convoluted sector, it is an exciting time, ripe with opportunities to disrupt the status quo and create tech-enabled efficiencies for large scale profit.
