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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data. The World Health Organisation has cited China as an example of where a health system was able to improve diagnostic accuracy and scale availability.

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OIG and CMS Audits Present New Round of Compliance Concerns for Healthcare Providers

McBrayer Law Blog

COVID-19 has placed enormous stress on our healthcare system. Federal and state responses to COVID-19 have woven a complex and complicated safety net by easing regulatory requirements through waivers and funneling billions of dollars to providers among many other actions.

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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. COVID Vaccine Education. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. COVID Staff Vaccine. COVID Reporting Requirements.

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Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine

Healthcare It News

Sam Hanna Population health and precision medicine have often been set against each other because of the inherent differences in their approaches to health management, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on both, highlighting some potential intersections that may not have been so apparent in the past.

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Governor Signs HB 200 to Address Healthcare Worker Shortage

McBrayer Law Blog

Posted In Health Care Law , Health Reform The COVID-19 public health emergency has impacted the healthcare field in numerous ways. More > Tags: health care industry , Health Care Law , Healthcare Provider , Healthcare Providers , nurse practitioners

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My ABCovid-19 Journal – Day 3 of 5, Letters “K” through “O”

Health Populi

Welcome back to my ABCovid-19 Journal, which I created/curated in the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic. This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. In the U.S.,

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