Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These changes to telehealth are being done to support the continuity of patient care amid the current COVID-19 restrictions and to help relieve the pressure on the overwhelmed hospital system.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. India upgrades CoWIN to track all vax status. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2021

The qualitative study, which took place before COVID-19 swept the country, examined 29 medical oncology health professionals' perceived benefits and drawbacks of telehealth video visits. of all visits to the cancer center took place via telehealth. WHY IT MATTERS. By April 2020, 52.4%

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

"We just published a report that answers the question of how likely you are to acquire COVID-19 from a hospital admission," said Dr. Jackie Gerhart, lead clinician for Epic Research, referencing a brief from Monday. "We are calling it 'Best Care for My Patient,'" said Gerhart.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, shown in the second chart.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 4, 2024

The World Health Organization said it has expanded its generative artificial intelligence assistant, first launched during the COVID-19 pandemic as Florence, to help people everywhere live healthier lives. S.A.R.A.H, "This helps generate more accurate, relevant experiences and outcomes for this broader, diverse audience."

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 16, 2021

What You Should Know: – COTA’s study reveals that 70 percent of oncologists believe patient populations enrolled in clinical trials for cancer research are representatively diverse. COTA, Inc., Key Findings. Key Findings. They couldn’t be more wrong.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 25, 2022

Characteristics of Clinical Trials Evaluating Biosimilars in the Treatment of Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. New EU regulation on health technology assessment of cancer medicines. 2022 Feb 19. Emergency Use Authorizations of COVID-19-Related Medical Products. Kesselheim. JAMA Oncol. 2022 Feb 3.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah. The recent Delta and Omicron surges have made these therapies scarce. The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York, faced several challenges in rolling out an effective telemedicine strategy, many of which were unrelated to COVID-19. If anything, COVID-19 served as an accelerant to solving many of the challenges, since the organization had no alternative but to move forward.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 5, 2024

empowers individuals to: Understand Health Risks: Gain insights into risk factors for leading causes of death like cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. were used to disseminate critical public health messages, under the name Florence, during the COVID-19 pandemic on the virus, vaccines, tobacco use, healthy eating and physical activity.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: – Proscia® , a provider of digital and computational pathology solutions, announced that the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), one of the top 10 comprehensive cancer centers in Europe, will deploy its Concentriq® Dx platform. Concentriq Dx Background.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 22, 2023

Due to their delayed return to medical services and diagnostic testing in the COVID-19 pandemic era, U.S. Looking forward, large employers foresee their workers will be seeking care for chronic conditions and later-stage cancers that are diagnosed due to delayed screenings.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 2019, Google showed that artificial intelligence can detect lung cancer more accurately than radiologists with eight years of experience. And last year, a COVID-19 vaccine was researched, developed and deployed almost four years ahead of the normal timeline for a new vaccine." That's what we have to take to zero."

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the crucial role of technology in healthcare, from the surge in telehealth to the use of devices like tablets for patient communication. Simultaneously, we're exploring the use of artificial intelligence in areas like lung cancer diagnosis and patient attendance predictions.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 13, 2023

This article reviews recent instances of the issue, and discusses relevant regulations. Health claims: regulation and confusion The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration share jurisdiction over labelling, marketing, and advertising of dietary supplements, foods, drugs, devices, and other health-related products.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

City of Hope, based near Los Angeles, is a research and treatment organization for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. Then COVID-19 emerged. In 2018, it made strategic moves to more easily meet the needs of its patients and communities by investing in telehealth. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2020

The telehealth technology and services vendor McLaren used for the pre-COVID-19 period was InTouch. Prior to COVID-19, we averaged approximately 500 monthly telehealth encounters. During COVID-19, we are completing 18,000-19,000 patient telehealth visits per month.” ” Documenting virtual visits.

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Compliance Now

JANUARY 20, 2022

In the same recent FAQs requiring health plans to pay for the cost of over-the-counter COVID-19 testing, the DOL also provided additional guidance on this rule as it relates to colorectal cancer screening and contraceptive coverage. Colorectal Cancer Screening. sigmoidoscopy or CT colonography). Contraceptives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

In the United States, people who live in rural America have higher rates of death from cancer than those in urban America – even though cancer-incidence rates are lower overall. " In 2006, Dr. Heifetz established what is now the Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center in Truckee, California. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2021

380,000 people are expected to die due to COVID-19. COVID-19 has cut lives short relative to their life expectancy, calculated in an analysis by the Pew Research Center based on CDC data from 2019 and 2020, coupled with additional statistics on life expectancy by age and gender. In 2020 in the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The relaxation of telehealth regulations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a wave of interest and support, with patients noting the convenience, discretion and safety of virtual care as major selling points. About 32,000 people will be diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells, every year.

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Health Populi

MARCH 9, 2021

Cancer Needs a Better Roadmap. The Mental Health Shadow of COVID-19. Trend #1, The Year of the Pharmacist, speaks to pharmacists bolstering medication management along with joining the growing “arm forces” of vaccinators to get COVID-19 shots into patients’ arms. The EHR Hits Its Stride.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. Looking around the future corner, the inflators are expected to be: A COVID-19 “hangover,” leading to increased health care services utilization. increased by a relatively low 6.0% Preparations for the next pandemic, and.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Currently, Pults told me, CMS is focusing on overbillings during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the recent CMS rule doesn’t mention COVID-19 explicitly, the crisis around that pandemic provided a new loophole for Medicare Advantage plans to extract undeserved reimbursements. They expect to recoup 4.7

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. "With new areas across the country experiencing significant challenges to the capacity of their health care systems, our job is to make sure that CMS regulations are not standing in the way of patient care for COVID-19 and beyond."

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Adithi has previously worked in-lab on stem-cell-mediated cancer immunotherapies. She has previously published research papers on transplant immunology, birth tourism in the Canadian health care system, and global COVID-19 seroprevalence. Keep an eye out for their bylines! Joelle Boxer is a law student (J.D.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Monoclonal antibodies are synthetic proteins developed for therapeutic use in patients with a range of serious conditions, including Ebola, cancer, and COVID-19. Illegal copying is prohibited. Monoclonal antibodies are produced in a laboratory setting like any other therapeutic approach […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The ministry collaborated with the Health Development Policy Agency and the Data and Information Center to put up the said portal, which provides access to information including those related to COVID-19 and national surveys like the Indonesian Nutrition Status Survey, Basic Health Research and Health Facilities Research.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) BioBank : “[O]ne of the largest, most varied and richest International collections of samples in the world,” including 5.1 In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has also chimed in on the flow of U.S. from 562,000 individuals.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Startup Kheiron Medical Technologies says the solution can help fight the COVID-19 cancer screening backlog and address workforce crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 17, 2023

Frank McGillin, CEO of The Clinic spoke with Healthcare IT News about some of the cost savings, patient experience gains and other care delivery efficiencies occurring there and elsewhere as automation, virtual second opinions and other innovations change the paradigm for cancer care. Like what you hear?

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Komodo Health announced that its platform will be used in studies led by Stanford Medicine focused on the short- and long-term health impacts of COVID-19.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 30, 2021

The unexpected volume of COVID-19 testing has exposed the costs and risks associated with manual data management. PreciseMDX dramatically improves connectivity between clinical labs, providers, and patients during every step of the diagnostic testing process for any type of test.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 11, 2021

India most recently faced an overwhelming second wave of COVID-19 infections. Just last week, New York-based Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center opened a satellite office in the country to offer virtual services for cancer patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has been an eye-opener for what really matters in both personal and professional life. Healthcare providers are especially faced with new challenges: balancing best-practice patient care, reworking guidelines to protect and support their personnel, and much more. In a cross-sectional survey, 52.5%

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