Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

WA Health extends cloud contract with Atos Atos will continue delivering managed services, hybrid cloud, and core infrastructure services to Health Support Services (HSS), the ICT service provider for WA Health, following a contract extension. It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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Bill of Health

JULY 13, 2022

Though abortion is illegal in Peru, since 1924, the Peruvian Criminal Code (article 119 ) has had exceptions to its abortion restrictions, including to save the life of the pregnant woman, or to avoid serious and permanent damage to her health. The 1997 law also did two other relevant things: 1.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. The Chinese government is focusing on smart hospital construction to meet the perceived increase in healthcare services demand over the coming years.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 3, 2023

Under programs set up by the Affordable Care Act, the federal government cuts payments to hospitals that have high rates of readmissions and those with the highest numbers of infections and patient injuries. Maryland hospitals are exempted from penalties because that state has a separate payment arrangement with Medicare.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. The statewide expansion of virtualKIDS, which is part of the current NSW government's commitment to delivering 25 urgent care services by mid-2025, is now expected to support at least 500 NSW children and their families each month.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT The project started in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government's Go2Gov programme. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals.

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Symplr

AUGUST 12, 2022

For example, early in the COVID-19 pandemic when answers were in short supply, analytics on a population-wide level provided key insights for public health leaders and clinicians who needed to make timely decisions about infection. Improve the health of populations. Reduce the per capita cost of healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 13, 2022

It unifies data from multiple sources and systems including pharmacy, claims, electronic health records, government agencies, and community-based organizations, as well as social determinants of health (SDoH) , to empower whole-person care. Outdated Public Sector Systems.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, this is reflected in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies (2023). Can age and disability be considered in triage decisions in the face of public health emergencies?

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2023

According to the White House, the end of the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency (PHE) declarations is now barely two months away, as they are scheduled to end on May 11, 2023. Once the declarations end, so will the vast majority of these flexibilities and waivers.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

More residential aged care residents in Western Sydney can now access an IT-enabled urgent care service by the New South Wales government following its expansion. THE LARGER CONTEXT The Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) first introduced the inTouch service in 2021 to provide at-home care for over 45,000 COVID-19 patients.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

Talib Jaber, RPh, VP of Customer Success, Sunwave Health The pandemic caused a significant increase in overdose and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) related deaths, exposing long-standing deficiencies in the identification and treatment of SUD. And recent statistics bolster this worry.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sweeping healthcare policy changes that enable vulnerable Americans to receive affordable health coverage and access essential safety net benefits. Most government agencies have disparate legacy eligibility and enrollment systems that do not share data.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2022

Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust (CUH) has implemented a fully integrated patient surveillance infrastructure based on Masimo’s Patient SafetyNet TM supplemental remote monitoring and clinician notification system and Halo ION™, which provides clinicians with a comprehensive, personalised and continuous patient score.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As an emergency medicine resident at a large academic hospital in Los Angeles, I see how incarcerated patients’ suffering is sanctioned by hospitals and medical professionals, despite their pledge to do no harm. Because his vital signs were stable, he did not have to be admitted to the hospital. It is human made.

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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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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The federal government has penalized 764 hospitals — including more than three dozen it simultaneously rates as among the best in the country — for having the highest numbers of patient infections and potentially avoidable complications.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

The pilot involves clinics, as well as some hospitals that can only offer them to patients with rare diseases and patients who require continuous health management after surgery (those needing device checkups and explanation of test reports). Following this positive uptake, the government is now working to institutionalise the service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2024

Over A$235 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government so it can recruit more clinicians. Expanding the VVED will also enable it to support more direct referrals from aged care, paramedics, primary health networks, the Nurse on Call service and self-referrals from the community.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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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. Via the mobile app, patients could also check their laboratory results and receive their e-medical certificates to reduce time spent at the hospital.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe Guide on Adaptation to Heat for Health provides the building blocks of a plan to ensure an effective heat response for local populations. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. These include specialist diagnostic assessment, screening, and treatment; ongoing management of chronic and complex conditions; and pre and post-hospital care. THE LARGER TREND.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Speakers at the Symposium included the Directors General of all three organizations as well as representative government officials, non-governmental organizations (such as Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative), and industry participants (Novartis). I would like to thank Dr. G.D

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The American Medical Association (AMA) recently adopted new policies aimed at protecting access to reproductive health care and reducing government interference in medical practice. The AMA is governed by a House of Delegates (HOD), in addition to executive management and a board of trustees. By Katie Gu.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 1, 2021

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

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 19, 2023

However, few health systems, medical practices, or providers are prepared for the extraordinary public interest in a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease – especially not one targeting mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease – that is likely headed their way soon.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

This commission, according to a press release, seeks to foster the local bio-health industry and provide systemic support for the integration of the latest technologies, including AI and nanotechnology. Previously, these processes have been hindered by the compartmentalisation of various government agencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2021

Starting tomorrow, the Indonesian government will deliver free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms across the country in a bid to ease hospital pressure as cases hit record highs. The country's health spending has also been raised to $13.39

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The National Health Authority of India will now incentivise hospitals for providing valuable service through a new initiative. According to a press release, AB PM-JAY-linked hospitals will be paid and rewarded based on five performance indicators: Beneficiary satisfaction. Hospital readmission rate. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2024

WA expands virtual ED to mental health The WA Virtual Emergency Department will be adding a new mental health co-response model to support more persons in crisis in their homes. A combination of virtual care and a mobile crisis response team, the model aims to reduce avoidable ED attendance and hospital admissions. million ($5.2

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These changes to telehealth are being done to support the continuity of patient care amid the current COVID-19 restrictions and to help relieve the pressure on the overwhelmed hospital system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

But many nurses and hospital groups oppose laws requiring minimum nurse staffing ratios, pointing to the risk of patients being diverted when there are not enough nurses available when they arrive at the hospital. On the federal level, both the House and Senate have introduced bills to amend the Public Health Services Act last year.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In return, the Austrian government loosened public restrictions. Germany has introduced compulsory COVID-19 vaccination limited to all employees in hospitals, nursing homes, facilities for the disabled, emergency services, medical surgeries and maternity facilities which must be applied by mid March. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2020

While the federal government has relaxed some patient privacy rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, there are still avoidable mistakes healthcare professionals make when it comes to protecting patient data. The following is a guest article by Mark LaRow, CEO at Verato.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Aside from expressing intent to use the service again in the future, they also said they preferred the virtual service more than presenting to a hospital. million ($21 million) in funding over four years from the state government. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access

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