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A focus of many hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, and clinicians is improving surgical outcomes and post-op recovery for the patients they serve. And with good reason. Not only do these providers care about their patient outcomes and recovery experience, but the information is now publicly searchable on sites like Healthgrades.com.
Value-Based Healthcare is increasing financial risk for healthcare organizations. With the new bundled payment programs, your responsibility no longer ends at patient discharge. Hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and home health organizations can no longer be loosely aligned to succeed.Hospitals frequently lose track of a patient’s recovery after discharge because they are loosely aligned with skilled nursing facilities and home health nurses. These healthcare organizations have no easy way to collaborate with doctors to report patient issues.
Ben Henson
Seemingly everyone in their organization wants to adopt a bring your device (BYOD) mobile policy. However, the benefits of empowering employees with greater access to data typically drown out the lingering data control concerns.If you find yourself considering a BYOD policy, first think about your risks. As any OCR/HHS or hospital CIO, who has suffered through a data breach, will tell you, security risk assessments are vital to a HIPAA compliance plan. So what are the unique risks of adopting a BYOD policy in the healthcare world?
Krishna Kurapati
Digital outreach in Community Health Centers (CHCs) optimizes preventive care, reduces costs, and addresses social determinants of health (SDoH) for better population wellness.
Bobbi Weber
Learn how closing gaps in care not only benefits healthcare but also generates revenue for primary care practices under FFS reimbursement.
Bobbi Weber
For years, cloud-based healthcare vendors had tried to avail their organizations to the conduit exception to HIPAA. Broadly speaking, the conduit rule exempts entities from complying with HIPAA if they only transmit and do not access PHI (usually on behalf of a Covered Entity). In the buildup to the Omnibus Rule, PHR vendors, data storage companies, and other cloud-based providers lobbied HHS to broaden the scope of the conduit exception.
Krishna Kurapati
As portions of the United States start to resume “normal” operations, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released another round of waivers targeted towards the Hospice industry. With fresh guidance on timelines - CMS is actively working to provide resources to relieve some stress for healthcare workers nationwide. In line with previous guidelines, these changes go into effect immediately without healthcare providers having to request waivers from CMS.
It is critical that underserved populations receive the care they deserve, as the global community continues to wrestle with the pandemic. Here at QliqSOFT, we are aware of the communication gap that too often exists in hospitals and clinics, ultimately keeping individuals from preventative and life-saving care.
One of the most important aspects of qliqCONNECT security is how we encrypt your messages. First, all network connections are encrypted with transport encryption called TLS. So all communication over the Internet is secure. Second and more importantly, qliqCONNECT encrypts the message content using Public-Private Key Encryption. With this approach, every user on qliqCONNECT has a unique encryption key and each message is encrypted for a single particular user.
When thinking about a healthcare emergency preparedness plan, how much does compliance matter in your disaster communications? If your organization is in the throes of a power outage from heavy storms or a cyber attack that’s left your network down, thoughts of compliance may not be top of mind.
Ben Henson
Discover the significance of conversational AI in healthcare as it replicates natural interactions between humans and machines, offering personalized and interactive patient experiences. Healthcare providers benefit from automating administrative tasks, answering queries, disseminating information, tracking symptoms, and analyzing clinical data. Successful implementation requires prioritization, agility, measurement, expansion, realistic expectations, and choosing a results-oriented partner.
Bobbi Weber
Coryell Health, which serves as the primary COVID-19 testing administrator for Coryell County tests anywhere from 400 to 700 patients daily for the virus. After testing, staff must conduct follow-up, results reporting, and contact tracing necessary to keep patients informed and safe. Initially, the follow-up required 1:1 phone calls for each person tested.
Ben Henson