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A Public Health Wake-Up Call: Reading Between the Lines in IQVIA’s 2023 Use of Medicines Report

Health Populi

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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FDA’s IT Strategy: Unlocking Potential, Leading Transformation

HealthIT Answers

Food and Drug Administration has released its comprehensive FDA Information Technology Strategy for Fiscal Years 2024 to 2027 (IT Strategy), marking a defining roadmap for the agency's technological advancement and the alignment with its broader public health mission.

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$15M Singapore-London partnership to help stem APAC's growing healthcare cybersecurity woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In Singapore's public health facilities, for example, about 15% or over 16,000 medical devices have Internet connectivity. billion by 2027 , growing at a 12% CAGR from 2022. THE LARGER CONTEXT More and more medical devices are getting hooked up to hospital and home networks and the Internet.

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Illinois permanently expands access to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The bill, HB 3308, requires insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services, as well as authorizing all other telehealth to be covered through 2027. "Illinois is now one of the first states in the nation to turn our emergency pandemic response into a permanent reality.

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Telehealth revenue could hit $20B in five years, say analysts

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

revenue by 2027. The Digital Reshaping the Health Care Ecosystem publication said that virtual care is set to "become a staple" of healthcare delivery. A new report released this week from Bloomberg Intelligence predicted that the telehealth sector could bring in $20 billion in U.S.

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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

On the federal level, both the House and Senate have introduced bills to amend the Public Health Services Act last year. The Senate's Nurse Staffing Standards for Hospital Patient Safety and Quality Care Act prescribes requirements on direct care RNs and others.

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Senate Committee’s PREVENT Pandemics Act Draft Released: What to Know

Healthcare Law Today

It also requires that the Secretary report to Congress on the state of the SNS, and to issue guidance and hold annual meetings with public health officials and stakeholders on how states, territories, and Tribes can access the SNS. Modernizes public health data through biosurveillance and infectious disease data collection.