Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic they cross referenced vaccination rates with the CDC’s social vulnerability index and plotted the results using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. They are now incorporating an equity lens into other areas of public health. Racism as a Public Health Crisis.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2022

Since the May 2019 premiere of The Manic Monologues at Stanford University, productions and programming have been made accessible via in-person and virtual platforms for communities including theatres, hospitals, universities, churches, and large corporations. The mental health crisis is already labeled by some as the next global pandemic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. Losing health insurance in the pandemic: a financial toxic side effect. Race matters for health insurance in America. In terms of income, U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic in America has combined with: A national economic recession and job losses. Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms.

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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. By Amy Cook, JD, Jonathan Larsen, JD, MPP, and Sabrina Ruchelli, JD.

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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. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. During the pandemic, the federal government has taken unprecedented steps to widen access to telehealth: increasing reimbursements , removing regulatory barriers and more.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

So to give us some comfort in our collective foxhole, my last post for this week of immersion in #HIMSS21 is based on the keynote speech of Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health. Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. Be agile and flexible.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

say their financial health has been negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, through job loss, income disruption, or reduced work hours. adults are anxious about their financial future as of May 2020, an increase from 38% in late 2019. One in two people in the U.S. Prudential surveyed 3,000 U.S.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 10, 2023

In this period of extreme economic uncertainty, the digital health sector suffered quite a bit, closing in on what is now widely believed to be the tail end of a macro funding cycle centered around the COVID-19-era investment boom. Excluding COVID-19 and behavioral care visits, patient encounters were 6.2%

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The American Hospital Association (AHA), on behalf of its nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems, sent a letter urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to take immediate action to allow telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances before the Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers expire.

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Health Populi

MAY 19, 2021

As 2020 was our Year of COVID, with long weeks and months of lock-down and quarantine coupled with working and learning from home, 2021 is our Year of Vaccinations — and reverting back to some of our old behaviors. consumers are still concerned about COVID-19 exposure in restaurants and retail food establishments.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

lá rightly characterizes as the slipperiness of both the terms “decolonizing” and “global health,” these calls speak to the need to reimagine governance structures, knowledge discourses, and legal frameworks — from intellectual property to international financial regulation.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. say the future of America is a significant source of stress, as discussed in Stress in the Time of COVID-19, Volume Two , a report covering a poll of U.S. residents through the lens of health consumers and, especially this year and in this study, health citizens.

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HIPAA Journal

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently conducted a review of Medicare telehealth services provided during the COVID-19 pandemic, when a waiver was in place that greatly expanded access to telehealth and virtual visits. Between April and December 2019, 5 million Medicare telehealth visits were conducted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Despite the end of the public health emergency, individuals and informed political leaders will continue to work with pharmacies to continue access to vital care for individuals in need of medication for mental health because mental health is part of overall health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated health care providers’ and plans’ investment in digital technologies while reducing capital spending on new physical assets, we learn in Building resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2021

COVID-19 reshaped people around the world, one-half of whom are re-defining their personal purpose and life-goals. This sense of purpose extends to peoples’ willingness to buy or patronize companies who do not meet their needs for health, safety, sustainability and trust.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 19, 2022

The Institute for Healthcare improvement indicates that twice as many healthcare organizations cite health equity as a top priority today when compared to 2019. While I have a ton of faith in the power of health plans (many would argue too much), it’s important also to acknowledge that health plans alone cannot fix this problem.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This means testing must be far more widespread, done in the pursuit of a more complete picture of health and to provide insight into the individual ailments and public health crises that may be coming down the track. The future of diagnostics will be pre-emptive. Embracing new digital diagnostics. About Michael Simpson.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Provider Trust

JANUARY 25, 2024

In addition, the COVID-19 public health emergency triggered shifts in Medicaid and CHIP eligibility, which could impact millions of people. These programs ensure that the government engages only with law-abiding individuals and uses taxpayer dollars appropriately.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access. W2O notes that these five issues became more-inter-related than ever, compared with previous years’ top consumer health issues. This includes health care. FYI, I did not have a hand in this study. .

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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. Other hospitals declined to comment or did not respond to emails.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

in 2021, per person health care spending increased by nearly 15%, reversing 2020’s spending decline of 3.5% in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. health citizen was for professional services, comprising nearly $1 in $3 of health care spend. In the U.S. By 2021, the largest share of spending per U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Healthcare in the Era Post-Covid. COVID-19 changed how consumers and brands do business, and healthcare organizations are no exception; the pandemic accelerated transformation by a decade. More than 30% of all rural hospitals are at immediate risk of closure due to low financial reserves or reliance on government aid.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 4, 2023

The following key trends from Rock Health’s report are a review of the venture, banking, and policy waves breaking within digital health, coupled with insights regarding the volatility of the modern-day regulatory landscape, how the financial market seems different for everyone, and how small-scale startups have it the hardest.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Behavioral telehealth may also be referred to as telebehavioral health, telemental health, telepsychiatry, or telepsychology.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2023

According to government reports, 23% of hospitals are experiencing a significant staff shortage. from 2019 to 2022. These critical staffing talent shortages could jeopardize communities’ access to care and result in dire consequences. The staffing shortage existed before the pandemic , but it’s only worsened during the past few years.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

MARCH 5, 2020

A novel coronavirus, now called SARS-CoV-19, was first detected in the Hubei province of China in early December 2019. Travel is being restricted, large scale public events are likely to be cancelled, and schools and businesses may be closed to contain the spread of the virus. There is now an FDA policy released on 29 Feb.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Identifying these inequities is critical to developing plans to protect the health of vulnerable residents during public health emergencies, and ultimately to address the structural causes of these health disparities. Credit: COVID-19 Health Inequities in Cities Dashboard. When Work Determines Risk.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

In 2018, Congress passed requirements under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities (SUPPORT) Act, requiring DEA to create a special registration for opioid addiction treatment via telehealth by October 2019.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. 2019-28: Expected Rebound in Prices Drives Rising Spending Growth. What if home was our health hub?”

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Hall Render

JULY 14, 2023

CMS first reviews home health utilization. Table B2: Utilization of Visits per 30-day Periods of Care by Home Health Discipline, CYs 2018-2022 Discipline CY 2018 (Simulated) CY 2019 (Simulated) CY 2020 CY 2021 CY 2022 Skilled Nursing 4.53 Home Health Aide 0.72 Physical Therapy 3.30 Occupational Therapy 1.02

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

As the National Academy of Sciences explained in a 2019 report , these two medications reduce risk of death by up to 50 percent and are associated with numerous other benefits, including improved quality of life, reduced rates of use of other opioids, and reduced risk of contracting illnesses including HIV and hepatitis C.

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