Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. The area continues to face an increase in severe COVID-19 cases that require hospitalization – overwhelming many hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. "With new areas across the country experiencing significant challenges to the capacity of their health care systems, our job is to make sure that CMS regulations are not standing in the way of patient care for COVID-19 and beyond."

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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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YouCompli

MARCH 29, 2023

In this article, she discusses several issues that hospitals and health systems need to consider as a result of the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) reports that 80% of the U.S. Flexibilities regarding patient-specific nursing care plans.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.].

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Healthcare Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (the “PHE”), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued numerous “blanket waivers” to increase access to medical services, and ease the regulatory burden on providers across the health care industry.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

Among the many failures to mitigate the harm from COVID-19 in the U.S. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020. First, foremost, Americans are concerned about the impact of a disease outbreak on their health, personal finances and the U.S. 43% of Americans are concerned they will contract COVID-19. 20-21 and Feb.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "Nurses, more than any other healthcare staff, spend the most time with patients," said the unions in the statement.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Update your policy as needed.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

Eugene Chan, MD, co-founder and chairman of Abpro The material cost of COVID-19 has been at the center of public discourse since the early days of the pandemic. Now, Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc on our health systems, but in a more covert way. So, what happens when hospitals and health systems close?

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

" Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Quality Care Analytics Care Data and Information. Dr Anne Snowdon, HIMSS Analytics' Chief Scientific Research Officer, moderated the discussion. Patient expectations.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 27, 2023

Felicia Sadler, MJ, BSN, RN, CPHQ, LSSBB, VP of Quality at Relias Despite the recent end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency, its effects linger. This includes nurse and clinician shortages, which persist across hospitals and health systems nationwide.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

For this alert, “nursing homes” refers to skilled nursing facilities (often known as “SNFs”). COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. Interim final rules are effective for a period of three years from the date of publication if CMS does not take further action.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. in Orange County Convention Center WF4.

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Hall Render

MAY 11, 2023

As skilled nursing facilities work and provide health care services after the May 11, 2023, end of the Public Health Emergency, questions and concerns about visitation at these facilities will likely continue to arise. and follow accepted national standards, such as CDC recommendations.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 14, 2023

During the COVID-19 PHE, CMS issued temporary waivers, including a waiver of the “location requirement” of the In-Office Ancillary Services (“IOAS”) exception. 3] As indicated above, the temporary waiver that allowed mailing or home delivery of DME during the COVID-19 PHE expired May 11, 2023 and is no longer available.

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MedTrainer

MAY 4, 2023

The end of the federal Public Health Emergency (PHE) will reinstate regulations that have been absent for years… and many healthcare workers have never had to follow. There are plenty of compliance implications for the end of the Public Health Emergency on May 11, 2023 , and an assessment is a great place to start.

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Health Law Attorney

JANUARY 13, 2022

In June 2021, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“ OSHA ”) issued an Emergency Temporary Standard (“ ETS ”) that would require, amongst other things, employers with 100 or more employees to adopt a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. An overview of the OSHA Vaccine Policy requirements can be accessed here.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

South Korea has been lauded as a role model in its containment and flattening the curve of COVID-19 infections through a combination of rapid intervention, extensive testing for the virus, contact tracing/surveillance and enlisting the public’s health, according to a report by The New York Times. Challenges. (1)

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2023

NP-C, CSE Nurses have the highest level of public trust across medical professions, yet there’s a huge chasm between Americans’ appreciation for nursing and the profession’s uncertain future. The pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities in nurses’ workplace environment and culture that have fueled the nursing diaspora.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2020

GOOGLE BLOCKS MILLIONS OF COVID-19 SCAM EMAILS DAILY. They stated that, in the past week alone, they saw “18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19” with millions more spam emails, and were able to stop 99.9% ” DIGITAL APPOINTMENTS COULD BE PROBLEMATIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS.

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

License verification, especially nursing license verification, is essential to ensuring that only the most qualified practitioners are seeing your patients. And according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing , nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the U.S. are employed in nursing.

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Med-Net Compliance

AUGUST 4, 2022

The Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted an audit and found that selected nursing homes may not have complied with federal requirements for infection prevention and control and emergency preparedness. Specifically, 28 of 39 nursing homes they audited had possible deficiencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT At the start of the pandemic, the South Korean government immediately permitted the temporary conduct of telemedicine to help stem the spread of COVID-19 infections. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access

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Health Populi

JULY 12, 2021

Acosta, the retail market research pro’s, updated our understanding consumers evolving as COVID-19 Has Elevated the Health and Wellness Trends of the Recent Years , results of a survey conducted among in May 2021. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19, with an option to be admitted to a virtual ward.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, in 2020 and 2021, the AMA touted more advocacy efforts related to scope of practice that it did for any other issue — including COVID-19. Temporary regulations allowing NPs and other clinicians to do more during the COVID-19 pandemic could be evaluated and, if safe and cost-effective, expanded.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. Massachusetts Gov. WHY IT MATTERS. The new law makes some of those changes permanent, although others are only extended.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has armed surveyors with detailed instructions on how to survey skilled nursing facilities for compliance with the CMS staff vaccine requirements. Policies and procedures related to the skilled nursing facility’s COVID-19 staff vaccination policies and procedures.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector. "These attacks have a higher chance of working due to conditions from COVID-19 expansion in the telehealth environment."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

The previous articles in this series laid out some of the issues in health care affecting testing , and the value of data. Speeding up Test Development We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants.

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They identified that 6,622 nursing homes had been cited for infection prevention and control program deficiencies as of February 26, 2020, and Medicare.gov indicated that 24 nursing homes were part of a nursing home chain. The OIG’s audit found that 23 of the 24 nursing homes had possible deficiencies.

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