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Rapid telehealth rollout was beneficial for nursing homes, but had downsides too

Healthcare It News

As the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a massive uptick in telehealth use around the country, hard-hit nursing homes also turned to the tool to try and keep patients safe. The aim, they said, was to examine the consequences of the rapid telehealth rollout in nursing homes. Saved organizational resources. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. In the U.S.,

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The rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

These will aid greatly in COVID-19 diagnosis, clinical decision making and managing manpower and hospital beds’ capacity. “Much of the COVID-19 conversation has focused on the lack of ventilators. Meeting the increased demand for professional healthcare products and solutions.

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Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" When the pandemic hit, University Hospitals' use of automation to manage care for people with chronic conditions prompted it to consider: How could it leverage automation as a patient-facing symptom-checker for COVID-19? Employees used the screener more than two million times.

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The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem

Bill of Health

One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. This data gap had serious and sometimes fatal implications for people with IDD during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Penn Medicine gets $2.5M to study RPM's effect on COVID-19 disparities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Penn Medicine is getting new money to assess how its COVID Watch remote patient monitoring program is serving its patients, particularly those in Black and Latinx communities. It will also study whether using connected pulse oximeters in tandem with the text check-ins is improving outcomes. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Bipartisan bills in House, Senate seek to increase telehealth in nursing homes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Reducing Unnecessary Senior Hospitalizations (RUSH) Act of 2020, bipartisan legislation introduced in both the House and Senate, aims to enable more widespread use of telehealth in skilled nursing facilities. WHY IT MATTERS. The RUSH Act – introduced in companion bills from Sens. THE LARGER TREND.