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Charting a Path Forward for Behavioral Health After the Public Health Emergency

HIT Consultant

Talib Jaber, RPh, VP of Customer Success, Sunwave Health The pandemic caused a significant increase in overdose and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) related deaths, exposing long-standing deficiencies in the identification and treatment of SUD. About Talib Jaber Talib Jaber, RPh is the VP of Customer Success at Sunwave Health, Inc.,

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The telemedicine program of the Charlottesville-based University of Virginia Health System was established in 1995 to enhance timely patient access to healthcare services, particularly for patients in rural regions of the Commonwealth of Virginia. "In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine."

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International Medical Center expands on digital offering via new partnership

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Jeddah’s International Medical Center (IMC) is expanding its digital offering by signing a strategic partnership with Saudi Telecom Company (STC), it has announced. “This agreement is a crucial step in IMC’s strategy which aims for continuous medical development,” said Walid Fitaihi, Chairman and CEO of IMC.

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Stony Brook Medicine crafts a telehealth strategic plan that bears fruit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 Dr. Gerald J.

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Geisinger's telemedicine program shoots from 20 specialties to more than 70

Healthcare It News

With this, the health system saw many hospitals experience strains in their ability to accommodate the volume of patients needing care. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. MARKETPLACE. " Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT. Email the writer: bsiwicki@himss.org.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

A lesser-known component of ARRA was Title XIII, the HITECH Act, which funded hospitals’ and physicians’ adoption of electronic health records systems (EHRs). The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009.

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Health Provider News – June 3, 2022

Hall Render

4 benefits of behavioral health partnership for hospital performance. CMS has cited 69 hospitals for noncompliance with worker vaccine mandate. Court OKs denying coverage for mental health, substance-use care. Now they’re facing a mental health crisis. HHS formally establishes federal health research agency.