Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. The platform was built to keep COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms out of hospitals given the lack of hospital beds.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. The recent Delta and Omicron surges have made these therapies scarce.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. During the COVID-19 outbreak, BIDI’s HIS was utilized to create a suite of digital services for patients. Shortage of and rising prices of PPEs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. Accessible through a government website, the service is intended for asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 patients under self-isolation. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This week, COVID-19 cases in Victoria went above 10,000 with nearly 900 people hospitalised.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

A bill advanced out of the Alaska Senate this past week would expand access to telehealth throughout the state, but would also prohibit businesses, state agencies and local governments from requiring a COVID-19 vaccination to access public areas. As of Sunday, the state had 277 new confirmed COVID-19 cases.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. " Some key IT staff in provider organizations are feeling the brunt of the COVID-19 surge, said Cash of KLAS.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. How has the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the need for artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, moving into 2022, with the goal of improving patient and clinical outcomes?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 17, 2020

Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: White House directs hospitals to submit COVID-19 data to HHS; telehealth helps with recovery Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian government claims it has been committed to addressing the supply and demand crisis in the sector by pursuing reforms and making significant investments in both workforce training and retention and filling gaps in and raising mental healthcare access. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR. Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training. Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. One in five were diagnosed somewhere else.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United Kingdom in March 2020, the government quickly moved to impose a stay-at-home order. In particular, caregivers mention "the speed of reviews and ability to communicate quickly and effectively with specialists from other hospitals," said Dewhurst.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2021

Who could benefit from a geographical map that ranks counties by the risk of residents getting COVID-19? Certainly, such detail is valuable to public health agencies-but also to municipal governments, hospitals, clinics, and even private businesses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

Despite its relatively small size, the government in New Zealand’s managed to effectively mitigate the spread of the virus within the country. Within healthcare institutions, there exists a shortage of hospital beds, with only 250 intensive care unit (ICU) beds available. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

The continuum runs from the home or community setting – through to an acute hospital setting. Without doubt, the crucial requirement of us all, as citizens, to be physically distant as part of the response globally to COVID-19 has resulted in a significant shift in how we think about technology as a tool to overcome distance.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 17, 2020

As you can imagine, we’ve been innundated with COVID-19 related health IT news. In many cases, that means we’ve been covering the big changes to government regulations and the government funding available to hospitals and healthcare organizations. In other […].

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

Among the many failures to mitigate the harm from COVID-19 in the U.S. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Overall, building a patient management program – most notably in the wake of COVID-19 – is critical. Otherwise, we risk inefficient clinical decision making, inefficiencies among hospital staff, patient safety risk, and, ultimately, clinical burnout.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Volunteer doctors from the US-based American Association of Physicians of Indian-Origin and Hindu faith-based group Sewa International have been offering teleconsultations and medical advice to COVID-19 patients in India via the eGlobalDoctors platform. WHAT THEY DO. WHY THIS MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

These will aid greatly in COVID-19 diagnosis, clinical decision making and managing manpower and hospital beds’ capacity. Hospital telehealth solutions for the ICU and telehealth solutions to connect caregivers and patients at home. “Much of the COVID-19 conversation has focused on the lack of ventilators.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What You Should Know: Truepill launches its end-to-end COVID-19 virtual care platform to provide convenient online care for COVID-19 alongside the rapid delivery of antiviral medication. Importance of COVID-19 Oral Antiviral Therapeutics. Truepill’s COVID-19 Virtual Care Platform Features.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Several technological solutions have been launched to help manage the COVID-19 pandemic, notably to detect the first symptoms, track the virus, carry out tests and support the population in accessing and receiving healthcare. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD. “We could reduce mortality by more than 50%,” she said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 8, 2020

The special consultation service was created for those with may display symptoms of COVID-19 or at high risk of contracting of the coronavirus. The special consultation service was created for those with may display symptoms of COVID-19 or at high risk of contracting of the coronavirus. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2020

Managing the COVID-19 situation in South Korea. In a previous interview with Healthcare IT News , Dr Hwang explained that IT preparedness of hospitals and healthcare providers is key to managing outbreak of COVID-19. Efficient support of intensive care hospitals. EHR system.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hospitals say they are disappointed to lose a policy that had "corrected a longstanding barrier to access."

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s failed responses to COVID-19, ranging from “testing to data to communications,” have prompted a call to reorganize the agency. Even as thousands of Americans continued to die from COVID, the Health Resources and Services Administration stopped accepting claims submitted under this program.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Government & Policy Interoperability Telehealth The director of international relations at NHS Confederation, Dr Layla McCay writes about significant acceleration of digital transformation across the UK. Looking beyond COVID-19. It's not all plain sailing, of course.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

Bendigo Health in regional Victoria will become one of the first hospitals in Australia to roll-out telemonitoring used for suspected COVID-19 patients. This data will be collected and transmitted to the hospital via a secure network. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

South Korea has been lauded as a role model in its containment and flattening the curve of COVID-19 infections through a combination of rapid intervention, extensive testing for the virus, contact tracing/surveillance and enlisting the public’s health, according to a report by The New York Times. Challenges. (1) Lessons learnt.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai. Coordinated efforts in the face of COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 5, 2020

COVID-19 has affected not just hospitals and acute services treating infected patients, but the entire Italian healthcare system. They spoke of their experience of national virus containment measures and the use of non-hospital facilities as isolation areas for COVID-19 patients. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

Fewer target Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments sent to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic’s opening year reached hospitals serving patient populations with more Hispanic/Latino Americans, acc | The government watchdog found that hospitals serving heavier concentrations of Hispanic/Latino Americans were tied to lower Provider Relief Fund payments (..)

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Medisys Compliance

MAY 19, 2022

During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), reimbursements for telehealth continue to evolve. The federal government, state Medicaid programs, and private insurers have expanded coverage for virtual health care services. Changed Telehealth Policies. Billing for Medicare Fee-for-Service Claims. Coding Guidelines.

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