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Indian doctors group taps Eka Care for online healthcare platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Eka Care mobile app provides doctors with a platform to connect with their patients; conduct teleconsultations; manage digital, physical, and ad-hoc appointments; schedule automated follow-ups; create digital prescriptions and reports; and use advanced practice analytics to inform decisions. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. increased by a relatively low 6.0%

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa.

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Health Provider News – November 4, 2022

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CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Feds approve program for rural Arkansas health care but it will cost local taxpayers more. Governor Hutchinson Announces Expansion To Rural Health Services With ARHOME Medicaid Program. CMS bumps ASC payments to 3.8

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Health Provider News – April 15, 2022

Hall Render

CMS revises COVID-19 nursing home protocols. Congress breaks for recess with $10B COVID-19 aid in limbo. HHS reveals strategy on social determinants of health. HHS extends COVID-19 public health emergency for another 90 days. court reinstates Biden federal employee COVID vaccine mandate.

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Health Provider News

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ConnectiCare names new president; interim leader Wachtelhausen to retire CT passes bill focused on expanding kids’ mental health services DC Why D.C.’s Here’s why ARKANSAS Arkansas Children’s Hospital raises $5.9 Here’s why ARKANSAS Arkansas Children’s Hospital raises $5.9 What happens now?

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