Sustainable Telehealth: Security Risk Analysis
Whether you are a solo practice or a large hospital system, the requirement to protect electronic health information is mandated.
Sustainable Telehealth: Business Associate Agreements
The foundation of sustainable telehealth must provide for the protection of Personal Health Information (PHI). One of the primary issues that should be addressed is the need for Business Associate Agreements (BAAs).
Sustainable Telehealth: Clinical Quality Measures
At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 many elective procedures and surgeries were postponed. Patients did not want to go to their provider’s office, and providers did not want them to come in. As a result, a rush to adopt telehealth technology took place in a matter of weeks. In many cases it was not the best way for providers to deliver healthcare, it was the only way. One major impact was the effect on Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs).
Sustainable Telehealth: Malpractice Insurance
“Does malpractice insurance usually cover telehealth?” That question leads to a broader issue that includes such topics as “best practices” for healthcare delivery as well as risk reduction for a practice or clinic.
Sustainable Telehealth: Legislation
President Trump issued an Executive Order entitled “Improving Rural Health and Telehealth Access”. This Order contained statements that demonstrate a commitment to make permanent a significant number of the temporary measures
Sustainable Telehealth: HIPAA
Telehealth: Beyond COVID-19
4MedPlus Partners with MediVisum© for Comprehensive Telehealth Training Program
Virtix Health Selects MediVisum© for Its Virtual Wellness Program
Virtix Health (Virtix) has selected MediVisum© as its telehealth platform to interface with its member engagement platform Linx to perform “Virtual Wellness Visits” for Medicare Advantage Plans across the country.
Telehealth Adoption: Best Practices and Lessons Learned
Anchor HealthXchange Launches Home Care Workforce Talent Development Initiative with MediVisum Telehealth Solutions as Technology Partner for Remote Patient Care
Community Health Foundation of Puerto Rico (CHFPR) selects MediVisum© for Its COVID-19 Mobile Outreach Program’s Telehealth Patient Care Platform
CHFPR, has partnered with MediVisum as its telehealth platform to support its COVID-19 Community Outreach Programs. MediVisum provided the security, patient privacy, and documentation functionality that they needed in general and their clinically based tools were easily configurable to CHFPRs specialized workflows associated with the Covid-19 Mobile Outreach Program.
According to Dr. Ismael Toro Grajales, the Board Chairman at CHFPR, “It was very important to us to have an application that would support our outreach efforts to patients who had difficulty accessing our center during the pandemic, and help drive our community-based Covid-19 Mobile Outreach initiative. This initiative was designed to reduce the COVID-19 transmission rates among high risk r populations by having teams of trained healthcare professionals move across our service region to comprehensively screen and triage patients at their homes as well as in residential settings such as homes for the aged. We are very impressed by the intuitive functionality of MediVisum©, and the ability of its team to customize their application to fit our workflow requirements. The application brings simplicity to our complex needs and leads to actionable events.”
Telehealth: The Wild West
The COVID-19 pandemic created an immediate need for telehealth functionality and many providers grabbed the first tool they could find. Many of these applications were never built to support clinical workflows.
Due to the federal government’s Emergency Declaration and subsequent relaxation of HIPAA requirements providers began to use applications that offered essentially no security for protected health information. Some of these products do not even have the capability to document the encounter much less generate a report.
MEDIVISUM© PARTNERS WITH EQUIPO HEALTH FOR SECURE REMOTE PATIENT CARE AND VIDEO SERVICES THAT PROTECT PATIENT PRIVACY AND ANTICIPATE CHANGES IN HEALTHCARE POST COVID-19
Data security and patient privacy are at the core of the MediVisum© solutions and we were not willing to risk that for any reason - Covid or no Covid. We needed to make sure that we maintained the technical physical and administrative safeguards for Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI). Furthermore, we anticipate that the practice of healthcare will be forever changed as a result of the Covid pandemic. So we wanted to equip providers and healthcare institutions with the remote patient monitoring, chronic care management and practice management features that they would need to effectively manage their practices in a post-Covid world.