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Illinois permanently expands access to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The bill, HB 3308, requires insurance reimbursement parity for virtual mental health and substance use disorder services, as well as authorizing all other telehealth to be covered through 2027. The new law builds on executive orders Pritzker put into place earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic. " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Senate Committee’s PREVENT Pandemics Act Draft Released: What to Know

Healthcare Law Today

It also requires that the Secretary report to Congress on the state of the SNS, and to issue guidance and hold annual meetings with public health officials and stakeholders on how states, territories, and Tribes can access the SNS. Modernizes public health data through biosurveillance and infectious disease data collection.

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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Healthcare organizations are "greatly interested" in innovations that can modernize nursing and solve the challenge, according to Tom Leary, senior vice president and head of government relations at HIMSS, the parent company of Healthcare IT News.

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Forrester Unveils 5 Healthcare Predictions for 2023

HIT Consultant

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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Primary Care in the U.S. – Still a Weak Backbone for the Health of Health Citizens

Jane Sarashon

I’ll point to one that’s become a key learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which is mental health care. have a mental health provider in their practice, compared with 9 in 10 Dutch and Swedish primary care practices. communities, worsening health disparities that grew in the COVID pandemic.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The mechanism provides for authorizations of exports of COVID-19 vaccines outside the EU.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2023 – January

SQA

Until EUDAMED is brought fully online, a series of performance study application/notification documents have been created to support performance study procedures with respect to the IVDR (see MDCG 2022-19). A concerted and collaborative effort is essential to address this threat to global health, economies, and security effectively.