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Need Help Evaluating Mental Health Apps? New AHRQ Brief Offers Direction

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) recently issued a technical brief, “Evaluation of Mental Health Mobile Applications” to aid providers, patients, payers and others to evaluate mental health and wellness mobile apps' safety and efficacy and what consumer protections they offer.

HHS issues HIPAA guidance for audio-only telehealth services

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights today issued guidance on how HIPAA-covered health care providers and health plans can comply with privacy, security and breach notification requirements when using remote communication technologies to provide audio-only telehealth services, including after the COVID-19 public health emergency.

Telehealth and Its Emergence During the Pandemic

This webinar discusses the role telehealth has played in transforming healthcare delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic with emphasis on different sites of care. Each site of care is discussed with special emphasis on how people, processes, regulation, and technology work together to support a successful telehealth transformation, which could potentially improve access, quality and costs. (Webinar presented May 17, 2022)

4 Keys to Delivering Superior Virtual Care

Four leaders of clinical transformation, innovation and marketing from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) and Texas A&M University’s Mays Business School recently shared a blueprint in the Harvard Business Review.

Role of Hospitals: MUSC’s ‘Very Cool’ School-based Telehealth Program Helps Kids and Parents

MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina, has developed a school-based telehealth program that contributes to improved health outcomes for children in many rural and underserved communities across the state.

Digital Is the Next Frontier of Health Equity

Many of the digital solutions we relied on during the pandemic will remain, making digital health equity, including digital access and literacy, even more important. As hospitals and health systems design and implement digital solutions, it will be imperative to take proactive steps so all individuals have the opportunity to engage with these tools.
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Health Industry Cybersecurity - Securing Telehealth and Telemedicine

Health care is increasingly moving to a digital platform. Recent major investments in health information technology, such as electronic health records and health information exchanges, have created enabling digital components that providers and vendors are leveraging for virtual health care services.

NexHealth Secures $125 Million for Patient-Engagement Platform

NexHealth, a patient-engagement startup, announced that it secured $125 million in funding for its digital platform.

HHS extends risk adjustment for COVID-19 telehealth, telephone-only services  

HHS will continue to include certain telehealth services in its risk adjustment program for qualified health plans in plan year 2022.