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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Telehealth and RPM – 2023 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

And with the Public Health Emergency (PHE) set to expire in January, stakeholders are urgently calling upon Congress to pass the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19 Act of 2021. Both are life-saving measures for delivering mental and behavioral health services and treating people with substance use disorders.

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Health Provider News – November 18, 2022

Hall Render

Patient advocacy group wants Elevance Health to overturn health insurance claims denials. Fairfield Advisors announces sale of MercyOne Health Medical Building in Des Moines, IA. Elder care oversight program didn’t visit 59% of NY nursing homes, care facilities: Report. million in Q3.

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Health Provider News

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Dunleavy adds $9M to budget to address food stamp, Medicaid backlog New study provides snapshot of increase in maternal deaths in Alaska Mental Health Trust Grants $1.6M NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B Can Hospitals Change in Time to Keep Them?

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Health Provider News – August 26, 2022

Hall Render

Alaska Public Health centers now have doses of the monkeypox vaccine. Alaska’s COVID ‘superstorm’ experience of 2021 offers lessons for future pandemics, study says. This young woman wants to Indigenize mental health care. The New 988 Mental Health Hotline Is Off To A Busy Start In Hawaii.

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Health Provider News

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into cutting opioids in hospitals ISU and University of Utah partnership aims to combat Idaho’s mental health crisis Presbyterian-UnityPoint merger moves forward St. .’

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President Biden Signs End-of-Year Legislation Including Telehealth, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Pandemic Preparedness, and Other Health Care Provisions

C&M Health Law

Triggered by enactment of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, the 4% cut to the Medicare program would have taken effect in January 2023. The Act also provides investments in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). billion to improve the nation’s preparedness for public health emergencies

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