Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Majority of hospitals stumbled on public health reporting before the strain of a global pandemic. Mon, 09/13/2021 - 15:43.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 3, 2023

The article Can Public Health Really Be Consumer Friendly? I’m a grown man who’s afraid of needles. Yes, that’s an inconvenient fear in the time of vaccines and booster shots. This irrational dread plagued me when […]. appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 29, 2022

In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, hospitals emphasized the need to be prepared for more potential disruptions to the healthcare delivery system.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Patients who received care under the pandemic's Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, according to a CMS research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A report out this week from Boston Digital examines the role that original digital libraries of health topics can play in hospitals' web-traffic performance. hospitals, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report , 68% of all search traffic comes purely from health information content, said the report. THE LARGER TREND.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 25, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Diana Ibrahim, Public Health Program Manager and Umang Sharma, Statistical Analyst at the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health ( SBCDPH ), to learn more. That information is used to raise awareness and to marshal resources to limit the spread.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. health care spending. health care spending.

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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reports that 80% of the U.S. population previously received at least one COVID-19 vaccination.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The vaccines also reduced infections and hospitalizations, which freed up hospital resources, researchers at the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health concluded.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Stephanie Deitrick, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the City of Tempe, to learn more about their public health initiatives and how it relates to being a 20-minute city.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 8, 2023

Health Analytics Lead, Accenture Federal Services The COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need to modernize the nation’s public health system. Despite success in rapidly developing vaccines, the unprecedented public health emergency also exposed significant gaps in U.S. Kenyon Crowley, Ph.D.,

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Clintel's CareRight goes live at The Hobart Clinic Tasmanian mental healthcare provider The Hobart Clinic has implemented Clintel Systems' CareRight platform across its inpatient and outpatient hospital and community care institution. The platform, configured for its use, includes PAS, EMR, billing, and claiming.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

This draft plan puts an emphasis on the importance of an equitable integration of healthcare IT across public health sectors and highlights the significance of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. The comment period is open for 60 days, with May 28 the deadline for review and comments on the draft plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In a play for public health street cred, Microsoft has announced the creation of a new program designed to help public health researchers and organizations to leverage AI.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 11, 2022

The latest wave of COVID cases and hospitalizations has raised concerns about the financial resilience of many hospitals in the United States. Large hospitals in metropolitan areas have, for the most part, weathered the storm. Rural hospital financial stress and resulting closures are nothing new.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2022

What You Should Know: – Innovaccer has launched Public Health Command Center , an innovative solution designed to help hospitals fight the pandemic more effectively at scale. And it’s available at no cost to public health departments and hospitals for the first three months of use. Availability.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 11, 2023

Hospitals told a major Senate panel that a $385 million bucket of annual emergency preparedness funding up for reauthorization should “be at least doubled” if the country’s healthcare system is to | A flat reauthorization of the money spent preparing hospitals for public health emergencies is insufficient "to help rebuild the program after years (..)

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Jiajing Chen, Data Scientest What You Should Know: – Mercy has developed a new AI-driven texting platform called The Chen Chemotherapy Model, which is helping to keep chemotherapy patients out of the hospital by raising red flags before symptoms become severe. In a pilot study, the model was able to reduce hospitalizations by 20%.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

Island Hospital, a private quaternary hospital in Malaysia, is providing a case for this by building an integrated health ecosystem that fosters cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders. Island Hospital is using Vesalius, the hospital and clinical information system by Nova. its mobile patient application.

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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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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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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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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. health/care ecosystem of: Some 3,000 health departments and boards of health. 59 state and territorial health departments. Tribal health departments.

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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. Under the PHE, states must keep Medicaid enrollees continuously covered, irrespective of their circumstances. .

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

In the FY 2024 IPPS Final Rule (the “Final Rule”), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) incorporated certain social risk factors into the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (“VBP”) Program (“the Program”).

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 2, 2023

An “early glimpse” into the work of hospital equity officers outlines a combination of internal and external roadblocks, including systemic racism, this new cadre of health system leaders face as t | Responses from hundreds of health systems' equity leaders outline a consensus that "racism, today, is a public health issue that cannot be adequately (..)

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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 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (the “PHE”), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued numerous “blanket waivers” to increase access to medical services, and ease the regulatory burden on providers across the health care industry.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. The coalition's perspective, he said, is that regulators should "put guardrails on, but let us continue the good work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2024

The Singaporean Ministry of Health has officially broken ground on a new medical campus in eastern Singapore. To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital.

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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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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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