Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 24, 2020

In 2012, there were fewer than 1,400 maternal-fetal medicine specialists in the United States, and 98% resided in metropolitan areas. Avera eCARE CEO Deanna Larson also highlighted the potential to train people how to take their own measurements, as providers have done during the COVID-19 crisis for pregnant patients.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 29, 2023

This high rate of growth was due in large part to widespread limits on in-office services imposed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. For example, whereas the female share in the 19-30 age range in retail clinics had been close to 70 percent in 2019, it was 64 percent in 2020 and 60 to 63 percent in 2021.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2022

LightStrike Germ-Zapping Robots™, which first became available via GSA contract in 2012, provides a fast and effective way to disinfect healthcare facilities. In 2012, the W.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Medscape researched its first Physician Lifestyle Report in 2012. Before the pandemic, 19% of physicians said they were somewhat or very unhappy in their work-life; after COVID-19, this rose to 34%. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 7, 2023

Understanding Gen Z Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012, is the youngest working generation and is expected to comprise 30% of the workforce by 2030, according to the U.S. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated existing issues such as remote work arrangements, job insecurity, the impact of social media, and geopolitical events.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The proposed rule back tracked CMS’s 2012 decision to apply a FFS Adjuster to extrapolated contract-level RADV audits. Under the 2012 announcement, the FFS adjuster was intended to account for any effect of erroneous diagnosis codes in the data from Medicare Parts A and B that are used to calibrate the MA risk adjustment model.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2023

Based on a study of patient visits across all hospital-based outpatient clinics in Maryland from 2012 to 2021, telehealth visits did reduce the overall number of future outpatient visits within 30 days of a telehealth encounter by 14% and saved $239 in total outpatient costs per patient, the new study found.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In contrast to larger, well-funded hospital facilities, rural hospitals are experiencing a disproportionate dearth in personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly nurses. It is inarguable that we have witnessed the multifaceted and detrimental impacts that COVID-19 has had on healthcare delivery and patient outcomes in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jacksonville, Florida-based Nemours Children’s Health System needed to quickly revamp rounding by leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to avoid unnecessary contact and personal protective equipment use. “We’re not going back after COVID.” ” RESULTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2020

Even before the recent swell in telehealth prompted by the COVID-19 crisis, remote-analysis tools such as telepathology were invoked to share clinical expertise across geographical lines. In 2012, experts were pointing to such services as key contributors to cost-saving and resource-maximizing measures. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S. Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2020

"And now, more than ever, our foresight is fortuitous, as telehealth is proving to be critical in our fight against COVID-19. The goal of the Rural Health Care Program, according to the FCC, is to boost healthcare quality for rural communities by ensuring access to telecommunications and broadband services.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The CARES Act was passed by Congress on March 27, 2020, to ensure that every American has access to the care they need during the COVID-19 pandemic and to address the economic fallout from the 2019 Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19. HIPAA Changes in 2020/2021 Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic Remain in Effect.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

” Nearly a decade ago, I cited the Kaiser Family Foundation Health Security Watch of May 2012 here in Health Populi. Several new studies converge to further tells us that Americans are self-rationing, delaying, or otherwise avoiding care nearly one year into the COVID-19 public health crisis. Patients in the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2022

acquired in 2012, and the Keefe Group, acquired in 2016. COVID-19 response from Wellpath and H.I.G. Capital: In July 2020, PESP discussed COVID-19 outbreaks reported at 10 facilities where Wellpath provides care, including facilities in Massachusetts, Kentucky, California, and others.98 Before that, H.I.G.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 21, 2023

Inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and healthcare staffing shortages have reshaped the industry landscape. Consumers are looking for smarter ways to save on healthcare, forcing insurance providers to make marked changes to the way they conduct outreach and how they interact with their members.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Consider that more seniors are aging at home or in their family members’ homes during the pandemic, especially as COVID-19 deaths in senior living facilities began to climb and facilities tightened visitor restrictions to avoid the spread of infection. Today, nearly 48 million people provided unpaid care for adults in 2020, up 16.6%

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumers, globally, to take on more DIY roles as well as self-care for health and well-being.

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Kaiser Health News

AUGUST 12, 2022

Second, it would extend the enhanced premium subsidies for people who buy insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces that Congress put in place last year to help confront the covid-19 pandemic. According to an analysis by the Council for Informed Drug Spending Analysis based on data from 2012, about 3.5

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 21, 2022

One of the more significant solutions that support the faster and more efficient development of new pharmaceutical products – such as the COVID-19 vaccine , which was developed faster than any other vaccine in history – is artificial intelligence (AI) -driven data analysis. 21 st Century Patient Treatment for Rare Illnesses.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the voice of healthcare professionals to the forefront of healthcare conversations, and we owe it to them to give them the support they so desperately need and transform the deluge of patient data into actionable insights to drive confident clinical decisions. 2012 Nov;21(11):894-902.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

" Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and payers allowed patients to remain in their home, the use of video visits became far more widespread.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 22, 2020

FDA has just revised its relatively less known 2012 guidance entitled “Post-market Adverse Event Reporting for Medical Products and Dietary Supplements During an Influenza Pandemic” to clarify that the guidance is applicable to any pandemic, not just an influenza pandemic.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

” Drug spending by the state for its Medicaid , prison, state hospital, and other programs had been climbing 20% a year since 2012, so the first-term Democrat issued an executive order requiring California to make its own generic drugs and forge partnerships with counties and other states to buy drugs in bulk.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2022

509(a), Governor Murphy issued an Executive Order updating and clarifying timeframes for requiring covered workers at health care facilities and high-risk congregate settings to be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, including having received a booster shot. 3:19-cv-14228-BRM-LHG (D.N.J. On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

FDA authorizes at-home COVID-19 tests from Amazon, Roche, Siemens. At the start of the year, the Biden Administration authorized a handful of new at-home COVID-19 tests for use. The National Institutes of Health Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Technology program, along with specialists from the U.S.

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SQA

AUGUST 2, 2021

COVID-19 Response: Freely Available ISO Standards, 18 June 2021. A number of ISO standards have been made available to support global efforts to address the COVID-19 crisis.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. Effective October 19, 2021. 19; repealed N.J.A.C. Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. Patient Rights.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For context, since 2012, the annual cost increase for family premiums ranged between 3% and 5%, so the 2020 rate of 4% fell within a fairly normal range of 3-5% seen over the past eight years. Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%. Workers’ earnings grew by 3.4 and inflation, 2.1%.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2021

While COVID-19 has exacerbated the shortage of nurses in the US, the shortage precedes the pandemic by decades. Though the nursing profession was already experiencing changes prior to COVID-19, the pandemic accelerated some trends and initiated others. Some reports estimate that to fully cover our shortage by 2030, 1.2

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

Republicans have already reconstituted a committee to investigate covid-19, although, unlike the Democrats’ panel, this one is likely to spend time trying to find the origin of the virus and track where federal dollars may have been misspent. has spent the covid funding that Congress has doled out and appropriated.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 28, 2021

I’ve explored the mine of insights the GWI team has unearthed for the new year, and will focus on one that has fast-grown as the converging forces of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic recession and household financial downturn, and rising anxiety for social and civil justice have, together, wreaked havoc on our mental and behavioral health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 6, 2022

That was in 2012, when Tyrone was given the prognosis of six months due to his heart being too weak to pump blood to the rest of his body. In our current pandemic mode, Abbott is Exhibit A: the source of the consumer-facing Binax test for COVID-19. ” Ford asked, referring to Morris’s diagnosis of heart failure.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2023

Becerra is mostly read as a religious freedom case that pits the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) against the promotion of public health goals, similar to what we saw in the last few years of legal challenges to COVID-19 mitigation measures. Yet, ever since the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sebelius (2012) , which upheld the Affordable Care Act while declaring the individual mandate a violation of the Commerce Clause. Raich (where the Court bent the Tenth Amendment to prohibit marijuana cultivation that was legal in California), the similar 2006 decision Gonzales v. Oregon , and NFIB v.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 11, 2023

We wrote many posts about and saw many more examples of this phenomenon in connection with people following non-experts or “doing their own research” to pursue atypical “treatment” for COVID-19 and/or ascribe a wide range of “complications” to the COVID vaccines. Brief at 19-20 (quoting Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs v.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

29, 2024), would have been pending if filed sooner was opened back in 2012. In addition, the decision affirmed the dismissal of a case against FDA over orders related to pediatric authorizations for two COVID vaccines. A year ago, we marveled that litigation over COVID vaccine policies was still on-going. Boston Sci.

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