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Resource Overview

In order to effectively protect health IT systems, Health Center IT leadership needs to consider not only the physical and technical measures of protection for their site, but also the human and workflow measures required to provide the highest levels of privacy and security available throughout their organization.

Resources provided in this section include a set of curated best practices and gold standards for protecting  and effectively responding to health IT system threats. 

Health IT Privacy & Security Best Practices
Getting a New Workflow and Process Started during COVID-19 Pandemic
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/ Categories: EHR Implementation, Privacy and Security, Privacy & Security Best Practices, Telehealth

Getting a New Workflow and Process Started during COVID-19 Pandemic

Moving to Telehealth during Coronavirus Public Health Emergency

Health centers are having to dramatically change approaches to patient care as the COVID-19 public health emergency keeps patients at home and ramps up the demands of telehealth and other remote care modalities. Many health centers are moving primary care, care for chronic conditions, behavioral health, and other important care that patients need to telehealth, but the changing landscape and quick turnaround is tricky for organizations to navigate successfully. 

This resource is a quick start guide for health centers making this change. Download the full resource below in the Documents to Download section at the bottom of the page.

The downloadable PDF is broken into the following sections, each of which is filled with resources, examples, and references:

  • Quick Start Guidance
  • Come Up with a Triage Plan
  • Technology and Tools that can Support your Triage Plan
  • Communicate with Everyone About your Plan
  • Establishing your Workforce for Telehealth
  • Reimbursement Policy and Coding for Telehealth
  • Documentation

 

 

Documents to download

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Tags: CMS telehealth Health IT telemedicine security COVID-19 telehealth reimbursement telehealth billing coronavirus telehealth security
Intended AudienceHealth center leadership, clinical teams

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Acknowledgements

This resource collection was cultivated and developed by the HITEQ team with valuable suggestions and contributions from HITEQ Project collaborators.

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