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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Patients awaiting procedures and appointments at all Lurie Children’s locations are still scheduled and are being seen, unless their care provider contacts them directly to reschedule, the hospital said in a new statement posted to its website Thursday afternoon. "Our network systems’ restoration is ongoing and progressing.

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DECEMBER 29, 2023

At least 22 states are opening up, or looking at how to open up access to it. Arkansas has enacted legislation requiring that commercial plans cover biomarker testing and eight other states – Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada, Ohio and Pennsylvania – introduced biomarker access bills this year.

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A slew of bills targeting enhanced access to care within rural communities have, to the applause of the hospital industry, passed through committee to the full House of Representatives. | A handful of bills sent to the full House Wednesday would extend or expand greater funding for various types of rural hospitals.

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MARCH 5, 2024

Providers can access the full suite of Zocdoc Practice Solutions tools and all of the company's software partners and get new Zocdoc features and product improvements automatically through EHRs and PM vendors that become Advanced Integration Partners.

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JULY 21, 2022

He said the deal represents an opportunity to help build a primary care experience with Amazon that's "more accessible, affordable, and even enjoyable for patients, providers, and payers." going forward. going forward.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT According to a press statement, Apollo's Comprehensive Connected Care service provides a real-time view of the patient from several care touchpoints along the patient journey – from ambulance, emergency, and in-patient to post-surgery and home care.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

As Posnack explained, the agency "analyzed each statement and looked for trends, groupings, combinations, and other affinities." " The resulting theme statements ran the gamut from shifts in individual and care delivery experiences to changes at health systems. Some of the predictions may be relatively close at hand.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

According to the announcement, Azure OpenAI Service, Nuance and Epic partnered to accelerate the innovation of conversational and ambient technologies to enhance provider and patient experiences, expand access to care and improve healthcare outcomes.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

"It’s critical for organizations to proactively comply with CCPA regulations, rather than face expensive legal battles," said Raj Sharman, professor of management science and systems at the University of Buffalo School of Management, in a statement.

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MARCH 28, 2024

Emphasis is placed on providing improved patient access to EHI across communities and improve education on patient-facing health IT capabilities, particularly through mobile devices, along with outreach efforts on the use of AI in healthcare.

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AUGUST 5, 2022

By partnering with Watertown, Massachusetts-based athenahealth, the system’s 145,000 providers can now access automated messaging within their established prescribing workflows to help drive better adherence to prescribed treatment plans.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS There are a number of highlights in ONC's new publication, Individuals’ Access and Use of Patient Portals and Smartphone Health Apps by Catherine Strawley and Chelsea Richwine, that details how access to medical records "has increased consistently over time." in 2018 and 25.6%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A group of 16 provider and industry organizations this past week launched a campaign geared toward protecting and expanding access to telehealth. Telehealth Access for America is aimed at educating members of the public about the need to enact permanent legislation around virtual care services. WHY IT MATTERS.

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APRIL 7, 2023

On the Microsoft healthcare cloud, patients will also have greater access to their healthcare data, and they'll be able to review procedure and services costs and compare pricing across providers, the company said. "Interoperable exchange of information will become more accessible and reach more people" in 2023, Perez predicted.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

The company said patient-facing conversational AI can augment physician encounters and could improve access to high quality, affordable care as well as improve patient outcomes. Validated at Stanford Medicine, the physician-supervised AI autonomously manages chronic diseases, according to Palo Alto, California-based UpDoc.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

APeX stands for Advancing Patient-Centered Excellence – it's an Epic EHR system that was customized at UCSF as an integrated platform to help offer access to patient records across the care continuum, from MarinHealth Medical Network clinics to MarinHealth Medical Center. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

This population's immediate need is to address a lack of access to basic necessities, which are beyond the scope of the career program, according to PVA's announcement. WHY THIS MATTERS. PVA works to address the needs of veterans with catastrophic disabilities and paralyzed veterans. Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2024

Amazon Web Services said it hopes to further address health equity and improve healthcare access with $20 million in additional funding for its ongoing global health equity program focused on underserved communities. Promote resilient communities by increasing access to responsive social and community support.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This lack of consensus and consistency across professional disability terms, categories, and definitions contributes to a lack of comparability, discoverability, and access for disability data as well as research. This article describes just a few of the challenges we’ve encountered.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 5, 2024

Under full partners, providers can access the full suite of Zocdoc Practice Solutions tools and all of the company's software partners and get new Zocdoc features and product improvements automatically. Zocdoc said its marketplace aggregates real-time, in-person or virtual care medical appointments across more than 250 specialties.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The AI diagnostic solution can identify the median nerve in ultrasound videos and detect CTS with 95% accuracy, the hospital claimed in a statement. Enabling rapid communication and data transfer, it reduces emergency response time to "under 4 minutes," the company claimed in a statement.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act seeks to expand care options that can help improve health outcomes and quality of life for those facing barriers to healthcare. The Digital Therapeutics Alliance this week encouraged legislators to support its efforts to broaden access to DTx. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 16, 2021

A bipartisan group of senators this week introduced the Telemental Healthcare Access Act of 2021, geared toward reducing hurdles to providing virtual behavioral health services. "Medicare patients deserve direct access to telemental health services, and this bill removes barriers, to make this possible," he said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The technologies make "accessing evidence-based care simpler," according to Chaitali Sinha, senior vice president of healthcare and clinical development at Wysa. As an anonymous solution, the AI-driven chatbot can breach stigma and provide immediate access to clinician mental health support. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the post, OCHIN said the critical access hospital with an attached nursing home serving 50,000 residents in southern Idaho was discontinuing its old EHR system. "We feel like it will be a huge win for our patients and our community as well, that they could have that kind of patient portal access," said Tom Murphy, Minidoka CEO.

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APRIL 21, 2024

In a statement, Oracle claimed that its cloud service was chosen for its "scalable high performance and integrated high availability, data protection, security, and disaster recovery capabilities. Additionally, IHH is leveraging Oracle's cloud while complying with local regulatory requirements.

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JANUARY 11, 2022

"The addition of these strategic national partners powerfully strengthens our logistics capability which our health system providers need to safely and reliably care for patients in their homes," said Rami Karjian, chief executive officer of Medically Home, in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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JUNE 28, 2023

"With 150 million people passing through our doors each week, we have a unique opportunity to reach people who might not otherwise have access to or feel comfortable seeking HIV care," said Kevin Host, senior vice president of Walmart health, wellness and pharmacy in the announcement.

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JULY 15, 2021

Now, integrating Teladoc's Solo platform into Microsoft Teams means clinicians will be able to access clinical data within their electronic health record system without having to leave the Teams environment, said the companies. The feature will reportedly be available by next year. THE LARGER TREND. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2024

The gap between physician and patient readiness for the role of artificial intelligence in care is noteworthy, Wolters Kluwer said in a statement. Last year, Wolters Kluwer introduced AI Labs , a clinical decision-support system accessible to 44,000 healthcare organizations in 190 countries through its UptoDate product.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2024

South NSW Local Health District will be trialling the service at five initial sites in Bombala, Braidwood, Crookwell, Delegate and Yass from July, according to a media statement. It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff.

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JULY 18, 2022

The HHS Office for Civil Rights on Friday said it has settled nearly a dozen investigations of allegations of HIPAA Right of Access Initiative violations. In response to an initial complaint, OCR provided ACPM with written technical assistance regarding the Privacy Rule’s right of access standard and closed the matter.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS Transcarent says the ecosystem will provide the employees of national self-insured employers with faster access to verified high-quality digital or in-person care, higher-quality care, and affordable and predictable costs with full transparency. "It’s not an either/or; it’s both." Enterprise Taxonomy:

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MARCH 1, 2021

Grimm wrote in a statement on Friday that the quick pivot to telemedicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic makes oversight, transparency, accountability and program integrity all the more important. Advocates applauded the statement, saying they are ready to work with the agency to ensure telehealth services continue safe care.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Virtual care companies and payer care management also have access to Wolters Kluwer, Health content on Azure. Healthcare organizations can build their own educational content from a library with more than 600 videos and 8,500 digital educational leaflets accessible in the cloud-based Digital Health Architect. WHY IT MATTERS.

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MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Online gout care guide launched in NZ Health professionals in New Zealand can now access a new online resource for gout care. This transition, according to a media statement, will enable them to deliver services based on their Mauri Ora model of care, "where people can ‘enter through any service door’ and get what they need."

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