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Inpatient telemedicine improves care and patient satisfaction at Howard University Hospital

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In March 2020, the number of new COVID-19 infections was rapidly increasing in Washington. With no vaccination or specific treatment on the horizon, Howard University Hospital, an academic medical center in the district, prepared for a major surge of COVID-19 patients. Multi-way communication.

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Introduction to Telebehavioral Health

AIHC

Compliance Considerations for Best Outcomes Written in collaboration with the AIHC Volunteer Education Committee Delivering mental health services via telehealth has increased since the COVID-19 pandemic. Higher rates of use of telehealth are now standard in many practices since the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.

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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). Decentralization is enabled by the advancement of digital tools, telemedicine, and more mobile and local healthcare.

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Free Speech versus Public Health: The Role of Social Media (Part One)

Bill of Health

On social media, bad health advice can be disseminated by individuals with no particular health expertise and licensed health professionals alike. professional licensing, informed consent, malpractice liability, and fiduciary duties) while these guardrails run counter to the presumed equality of speakers outside of this relationship.

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Health Provider News – February 10, 2023

Hall Render

billion since pandemic U.S. leading cause of death is heart disease, Alabama’s matches that Alabama lawmakers put temporary hold on $1 billion contract for prison healthcare New rolling NICU a ‘game changer’ for critical babies in Alabama More than a dozen Alabama hospitals at immediate risk of closing; officials say hospitals suffer $1.5

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The BFDs – The Ten Best Prescription Drug/Medical Device Decisions of 2023

Drug & Device Law

2023) (federal government may unilaterally obtain dismissal of FCA claims, and calling the constitutionality of the FCA’s private enforcement mechanism into question) ( here ); Quishenberry v. Plaintiff knew about it, too, since he signed an informed consent document mentioning it. In 2023, these include United States ex rel.

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PREP Act Immunity: Baghikian v. Providence Health & Servs.

Drug & Device Law

6, 2024), the Central District of California looked at the PREP Act in the usual context in which we deal with preemption: A tort lawsuit (involving product liability and related state law tort claims) against a medical product manufacturer (here, the manufacturers of the COVID 19 antiviral medications remdesivir and tocilizumab).