Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The bill cuts funding for COVID-19 and monkeypox aid but extends two rural hospital programs.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 29, 2022

Hospitals overhauled their operations in COVID-19's early days. Now, two years into the pandemic, they are looking ahead at the future of their business, including revenue diversification and workforce stability.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pervasive inequities experienced by historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities. Although disabled people have always experienced inequities concerning economic security, these disparities have grown substantially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With rising case numbers in across the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region and the rest of Europe, a fully vaccinated status might become compulsory for the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) soon – at least in some countries. Thus, negative test results or the recovery status would no longer be accepted.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced the first half-dozen awardees of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Here's how hospitals can apply. The first round of winners are: Grady Memorial Hospital – Atlanta. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Among them are new allowances for telehealth and remote monitoring, for what CMS is calling the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. "The patient’s home is considered part of the hospital during the admission."

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Changi General Hospital in Singapore is now developing and validating AI algorithms to predict the likelihood of patient deterioration as part of its smart remote health monitoring system. The hospital has been collaborating with A*STAR medtech spinoff Respiree to develop a remote patient monitoring (RPM) system. WHAT IT'S ABOUT.

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Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The vaccines also reduced infections and hospitalizations, which freed up hospital resources, researchers at the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health concluded.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2022

Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. Emphasis in original.)

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 11, 2023

Labor will remain the largest hurdle for hospitals this year even as they struggle with inflation and spiking COVID-19 admissions that can dent revenue, according to the ratings agency.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Some have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic could be a moment of what critical race theorist Derrick Bell called “ interest convergence ,” where majority interests align with those of a minority group to create a critical moment for social change. Why Haven’t Interests Converged During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR. Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training. Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 18, 2022

Cybersecurity has always been chronically underfunded in hospitals, even before COVID-19 swallowed up more resources. Now, this major international threat is creating a "perfect storm," one cybersecurity expert said.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Children's version of COVID-19 Risk Calculator released The Immunisation Coalition has released a children's version of its COVID-19 Risk Calculator (CoRiCal). Enterprise Taxonomy: Digital Health Health and Wellness COVID-19 Workforce Development Technology Care Population and Public Health Workforce

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2022

A University of Iowa study published this month in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found that an at-home telemonitoring program was an effective and sustainable way to manage COVID-19 for patients. required hospitalization, and 1.2% Hospitalizations were much more frequent for high-risk patients. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2021

As COVID-19 escalated, New York City Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest safety-net health delivery system, was inundated with cases. The following is a guest article by Bevey Miner, Chief Marketing Officer for Consensus. How about a positive healthcare story from the pandemic in 2020?

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Fierce Healthcare

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 15:04.

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Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Short-term spending bill includes rural hospital program extensions, nixes COVID-19 and monkeypox aid. Tue, 09/27/2022 - 10:40.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. " Some key IT staff in provider organizations are feeling the brunt of the COVID-19 surge, said Cash of KLAS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

GE Healthcare has introduced a new cloud-based remote-monitoring tool designed to help clinicians look after ventilated COVID-19 patients. GE's Mural virtual-care technology aims to give hospitals visibility across their ventilated patient population, helping clinicians identify patients at risk of deterioration.

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

More than 2,200 hospitals will incur penalties, the lowest number in nearly a decade, as the CMS adjusted its calculations for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 1, 2022

But, to do that, it must make a commitment to the truth about COVID as it is in real time, a very serious current threat to health that is likely to be raging uncontrolled for quite some time, not, as we all might hope, a minimal annoyance fading into irrelevance. If it didn’t, there would be no justification for a vaccine in the first place.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2021

Starting tomorrow, the Indonesian government will deliver free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms across the country in a bid to ease hospital pressure as cases hit record highs. billion for COVID-19 treatment, testing, tracing, drugs, vaccines and protective gear. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. During the COVID-19 outbreak, BIDI’s HIS was utilized to create a suite of digital services for patients. Shortage of and rising prices of PPEs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on the ways that health systems addressed population health needs. Hospitals had to pivot with only a few days' notice to respond to short-term patient needs, rather than focusing on long-term goals. In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session scheduled to air on Monday, Aug.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines. By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 3, 2022

COVID-19 patient volumes fell rapidly from the first to second quarter across hospital chains as case counts waned, executives said on calls with investors.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The California Supreme Court has adopted take home asbestos liability and the California Court of Appeals has applied this to COVID-19 , but the California Supreme Court has yet to rule on this specific issue. Mr. Kuciemba soon developed COVID-19, which he brought home. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

That's leaving hospitals in a bind as they treat higher acuity COVID-19 patients. The omicron variant is posing new challenges as staff call in sick or quit their jobs entirely for higher-paying traveling nurse positions.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. One in five were diagnosed somewhere else.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A report out this week from Boston Digital examines the role that original digital libraries of health topics can play in hospitals' web-traffic performance. hospitals, as ranked by U.S. available on the hospital’s top-level domain. Among the top 20 U.S. They should be: comprehensive. THE LARGER TREND.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Queensland's Gold Coast Health has set up a bedside terminal solution by health IT provider Rauland Australia to reduce physical interactions in its COVID-19 ward. There has been a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases across Queensland since end July due to an outbreak caused by the Delta variant. WHAT IT DOES.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2020

In this interview, we talk about some of the unique challenges hospitals face amidst COVID-19. In particular we talk about security as related to temporary hospitals which seem like are going to be part of our future as COVID-19 continues to rear […].

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 3, 2020

For most hospitals, setting up robust temporary field operations for COVID-19 care is a new and difficult challenge. Fortunately, health leaders can turn to professionals with experience establishing temporary hospitals, such as members of the military. military frequently sets up field […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This week, COVID-19 cases in Victoria went above 10,000 with nearly 900 people hospitalised.

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