Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Ensure licensing and credentialling is in proper order for all providers.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2024

To further expand its reach and impact, Google is now licensing its model to partners in India and Thailand, two countries with a significant shortage of eye care specialists. Seven years later, we’re grateful to bring this technology to Thai patients with diabetes but also Thailand’s public health system as a whole.”

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2024

Instead, it requires that physicians be licensed in the state where their patient is located to provide care. There are limited pathways for physicians to meet the health needs of their patients located in other states. Or it could treat medical licenses akin to driver’s licenses.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms. What is driving all this, of course, is the regulatory changes during this public health emergency. First of all, we should think about the public health emergency.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 24, 2022

During large transnational public health crises, global demand soars for diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. R&D funded prior to the onset of a large public health crisis is governed by contracts negotiated before problems of product scarcity and inequitable allocation become mainstream problems.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

"To recruit clinicians outside of the geographic region, it was necessary to ensure the entirety of the clinician's visits could be completed remotely and that they were licensed in the state in which the patient is located at the time of the visit," he added. MARKETPLACE. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2021

Although Mohr lives in South Carolina, she says most of her patients live in Texas (where she is also licensed). Public health experts had pointed to teledentistry as one way to help lessen the burden of patients seeking dental care at emergency departments, especially during the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2023

Moderna also licensed their mRNA technology from Cellscript LLC – University of Pennsylvania’s successor-in-interest to the 966 patent. However, this discovery was made much before Moderna’s patent application and even before Moderna was incorporated. The founders of Moderna were aware of Drs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 15, 2021

"Clearly, the market demand for this collaboration exists and we are always looking for innovative ways to improve patient care and increase health system efficiency," DeVivo added. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. And some legislators do too.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

Authorize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service to continue reimbursement for telehealth for 90 days beyond the end of the public health emergency. Make permanent the disaster waiver authority, enabling Health and Human Service to expand telehealth in Medicare during all future emergencies and disasters.

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Mobi Health News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Licensed healthcare professionals can apply to make their content eligible for health source information panels. The features previously only applied to organizations like educational institutions, hospitals and public health departments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Develop interstate licensing reciprocity for states in the Northeast region for specialties with historical access shortage. In the absence of U.S. Earlier this month, Massachusetts Gov.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 6, 2022

It was not until 2013, nearly two decades later, that the American Civil Liberties Union and Public Patent Foundation succeeded in striking down Myriad’s BRCA patents, and all patents on human genes. The agency should instead seek concessions from Moderna to advance legitimate public health goals. Beyond Recognition.

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Provider Trust

JUNE 1, 2022

Organizations across the healthcare continuum have experienced several workforce trends that are creating gaps in license monitoring and verifications. Hospitals and health systems continue to find themselves desperately searching for available frontline nurses to relieve their exhausted staff and make up for vacant positions due to burnout.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

But because of payer difficulties, licensing hurdles or just plain lack of interest from patients, the majority of providers haven't used it. Experience the education, innovation and collaboration of the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition… virtually. HIMSS20 Digital.

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Verisys

APRIL 3, 2025

Licensure actions Disciplinary actions from state medical boards, like suspensions or revoked licenses. Other adverse actions Things like voluntarily giving up a license while under investigation. These include: Medical malpractice payments Cases where a provider settled or lost a lawsuit due to negligence or patient harm.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

Together, these articles underscore the injustice of the present moment and emphasize the need to reform intellectual property protections for government-funded inventions of public health significance. Recent Research on Public Funding of mRNA Technology The first of the two new articles is an in-depth empirical study of U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Extend the coverage requirement to public employee benefit plans and student health plans. The bill also revises the definition of telehealth to expand beyond licensed physician-provided care and encompass treatment such as behavioral health. Nearly two dozen people offered testimony in favor of the bill at the hearing.

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Telemedicine COVID-19 Licensing Public Health 202

Provider Trust

APRIL 26, 2023

However, this solution comes with its share of compliance risks, especially if interstate licenses are involved. Workers soon became overworked and overwhelmed, and COVID quickly proved that many hospitals don’t have sufficient equipment or staff available to deal with a sudden public health emergency.

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Medisys Compliance

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Navigating 2025 Behavioral Health Billing Changes 1. 2025 Behavioral Health Billing Changes & Telehealth Many practices are successfully billing for telehealth services using specific codes and modifiers that were largely put in place during the public health emergency.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), the United States Department of Health & Human Services demonstrated flexibility by superseding state licensure mandates, thereby allowing providers with valid medical licensure in one state to care for patients in all states.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services Premier made the case that some two-dozen federal regulatory waivers – enacted early in the coronavirus pandemic to enable rapid response to COVID-19 – should be made permanent once the public health emergency has ended. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

With the COVID-19 pandemic – especially thanks to an expansion of Medicare telehealth benefits during the public health emergency – driving increased use of virtual psychiatric care, many behavioral health providers ventured into telemedicine and onboarded digital telehealth platforms. " THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Cleveland Clinic Strategic Lead for Virtual Health Steven Shook cited attendee discussions around medical license reciprocity, but noted that a national approach could lead to fragmented care if local providers aren't engaged. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich. Email: kjercich@himss.org.

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Malpractice COVID-19 Licensing Public Health 192

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2022

For instance, a study conducted in 2005 by the American Association for Advancement of Sciences revealed that 40% of respondents reported problems securing licenses for carrying out research; 58% reported delays due to licensing requirements; and 28% reported abandoning their research due to licensing issues.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Despite the end of the public health emergency, individuals and informed political leaders will continue to work with pharmacies to continue access to vital care for individuals in need of medication for mental health because mental health is part of overall health. Your third prediction concerns medication.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Recommended voluntary billing codes, modifiers and place-of-service designations for telehealth and other virtual health care services. The simplification or alignment of provider licensing, credentialing and enrollment protocols with respect to telehealth across states, state Medicaid plans and Medicaid managed care organizations.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Medicaid Medicaid 167

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For this study, APA polled 1,787 licensed psychologists (both members and non-members in the Association) in the U.S. This year, APA has published four reports on consumers’ mental health in the pandemic. between late August and early October 2020.

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 2, 2022

The onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) led to a surge in the use of telehealth by health care providers. Provider Licenses. Are all providers licensed or otherwise authorized to render care via telehealth to patients located in a given state?

Public Health 52

Public Health Compliance COVID-19 Licensing 52

Bill of Health

APRIL 4, 2024

It provides several rules for sharing information and exceptions keyed directly to the realities of the health care setting, such as permitting information sharing for treatment, payment, or health care operations, some public health situations, and if certain identifiers have been stripped from the data set.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As this public health crisis continues to escalate, however, telemedicine is quickly gaining recognition as a critical tool to slow the spread of COVID-19, he added. “Telemedicine hasn’t traditionally been used in response to public health crises, but that is changing with COVID-19,” he said.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

" These purchases will allow sufficient technology to remain in place even after the public health emergency is lifted, and COVID protocols and limitations diminish.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 26, 2023

What have you learned about providers' plans to increase or decrease telehealth usage now that the public health emergency has ended? These are just some of the impressive results from the new survey. And why do you think this is?

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Telemedicine Malpractice Licensing Public Health 194

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here’s what one of the first patients experienced ,” “ Oregon Issues First Psilocybin Therapy Treatment Center License.” While the campaign for 109 cultivated a sense among the public that its goals were primarily therapeutic, once the measure passed, the letter of the law was crafted to bar therapy professionals from engaging in this work.

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Licensing Informed Consent Health Outcomes Governance 113

HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 16, 2023

The information removed from its systems included names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license/State ID numbers, financial account information, payment card information, usernames/passwords, health insurance information, and medical information.

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