MedTrainer

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Mississippi Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is dedicated to protecting and improving the health of its residents through various public health services, health education programs, and regulatory initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The two-month pilot program will provide evidence base for the use of telehealth technology to improve clinical and public health outcomes in cardiology disease, specifically targeting Chagas disease.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency prompted a rapid shift to telemedicine as both a replacement and adjunct to usual in-person care. However, based on the National Institute on Aging's National Health and Aging Trends Study , researchers estimated roughly one-third of older adults in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

” Initially, the other clinicians in Libby’s group practice were reluctant to use telemedicine, feeling that the personal and hands-on quality might be lost, something that is ingrained in the work values of most doctors. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology on the health IT marketplace today.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

However, the public health emergency also acted as an opportunity of sorts – namely, legislative and regulatory flexibilities around telehealth revealed how care can be expanded in new ways. And some health systems have relied on telemedicine during the pandemic to continue providing seamless care for patients with disabilities.

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Health Populi

MAY 2, 2024

May is Mental Health Awareness Month each year, so time to be even more vigilant in calling out the Gallup findings and continued stigma and barriers to accessing needed services. In the meantime, more older people feel the mental/physical health service gap even more acutely than younger health citizens.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The resources provided by these North Carolina state agencies are essential for promoting public health, ensuring access to healthcare, supporting healthcare professionals, and enhancing overall health outcomes for the residents of North Carolina.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

"Our job should be to ensure that change is done with the goals of better outcomes and better patient experiences at a lower cost," said Alexander. Dr. Joseph Kvedar, president of the American Telemedicine Association, agreed with Alexander's recommendations. Dr. Karen S. Mike Braun, R-Ind., " Dr. Joseph Kvedar, ATA.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 11, 2019

One possible consideration for the country is the shift towards value-based healthcare (VBHC), which is about improving healthcare outcomes at lower cost. While VBHC sounds promising, the reality is that it is challenging to achieve as transforming a health system that is truly patient-centred and outcome based requires a lot of work.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 7, 2021

Virtual care aligns with strategic imperatives to improve health outcomes, enhance patient safety, and optimize the patient experience for populations with medical complexity and high healthcare needs. As a result, it will pay off if healthcare can continue the expansion of telehealth started by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 26, 2022

Please describe some of the emerging technology models in telemedicine and remote patient monitoring, and how they can help improve access to care for underserved populations. Advances in telehealth have allowed both populations to receive more convenient, high-quality care, thus leading to better health outcomes.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These agencies help maintain the integrity and quality of healthcare services in New Mexico , protecting the public and promoting patient safety. New Mexico’s parity law requires insurers to cover telemedicine services to the same extent as in-person services.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The New Hampshire Hospital Association (NHHA) is an organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for hospitals and health systems in New Hampshire, focusing on improving healthcare quality and accessibility for the state’s communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

The funding for this coordination of these social determinants of health aims to break down siloed efforts and better align care and social service providers – ideally enabling better health outcomes, reducing costs and protecting vulnerable populations.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Telehealth opens up many new avenues to expand access to care, streamline the delivery of care, create new workflows and improve patient outcomes. 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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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The South Carolina Hospital Association (SCHA) is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advocating for hospitals and health systems in South Carolina, aiming to improve healthcare quality and access across the state.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 26, 2023

Black people were also more than twice as likely as white people (41 percent to 17 percent) to completely agree that they would have better health outcomes with a doctor of the same race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation,” the study’s website explained. The bottom-line learning was well-articulated by Dr.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

It uses telehealth technology to connect specialists and clinicians to areas of need, help monitor patients' health status and behavior remotely, promote timely and efficient care, and help providers reach previously isolated populations of patients. The opportunities telemedicine provides. Dr. Gerald J. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These agencies help maintain the integrity and quality of healthcare services in Idaho , protecting the public and promoting patient safety. Regulations Unique to Idaho To meet the standards of healthcare compliance in Idaho , there are a few additional regulations.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll see many more developments like this one as the health care industry continues to get more serious about its role in climate change, ESG, and public health. Central to this is empathy, which gets us back to health equity, inclusion, and good health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 24, 2022

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. CES recognized OMRON’s U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The good news is that support for family caregivers appears to be growing among public and private healthcare payers. Thanks to the pandemic, for example, Medicare and most private insurance payers now cover telemedicine services, making it easier for patients and their caregivers to consult with their providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 21, 2022

. “Today, we’re energized by the enthusiasm from our forward-looking investors and health plan partners around this aim.” ” Today, access to mental health services for the nation’s most vulnerable populations is a public health crisis. Engagement is a crucial, and often elusive, first step.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As the HLTH conference convenes over 6,000 digital health innovators live, in person, in Boston in the wake of the delta variant, what should attendees keep in mind to help HLTH make health? Particularly for those health citizens who have been long under-served by healthcare and digital health tools.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

However, that’s hardly a recipe for a nation’s health equity and inclusion, which underpin risks for more acute care, later diagnoses, and poor prognoses for health outcomes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

With that in mind, PwC found that providers plan to increase digital health investments (which is a cost-increasing factor in and of itself) across a landscape of tools focused on improving relationships with consumers and supporting health outcomes. during the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 11, 2021

Most basic in the latter has been the lack of broadband connectivity preventing some people from the digital transformation from which other “have’s” in society benefited: the ability to work from home, attend school from home, exercise at home, and access medical services through virtual care platforms like telemedicine.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Among the clearest economic development rationales for digital health is for expanding telehealth in rural America. This was the topic of a recent meet-up convened by NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association, discussing the economic returns of telemedicine. Why would a grocer lobby for such a project?

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Hospitals Health Insurance Health Outcomes Telemedicine 61

Health Populi

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Abbott and others in the core business space of pharma, specialty medicines, and medical devices are now part of the expanding digital therapeutics world that marries software to medical goods – whether a pill or device – to bolster health outcomes, adherence, and quality.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Health eating, nutrition, and weight loss = $946 billion. Public health, prevention and personalized medicine = $375 billion. health consumers spending on wellness, and you get roughly 20% of median family income household spending on health and wellness. Yet health outcomes in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

They cleared the path for parity reimbursement during the public health emergency. They got maybe a very broad coverage agreement, but it doesn't reach the same level of integrated health outcomes. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS publication. And then the big one being the waiver that came out in November.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

It offers one system for telemedicine that spans the care continuum from urgent to acute care, and equips clinicians, patients and the industry that supports them with tools to enhance the healthcare experience. First Stop Health. GlobalMed offers software, stations and diagnostic devices for telemedicine delivery.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Feds approve program for rural Arkansas health care but it will cost local taxpayers more. Governor Hutchinson Announces Expansion To Rural Health Services With ARHOME Medicaid Program. Feds OK Arkansas’ Life360 model incentivizing health outcomes. Las Vegas physicians offer free health screenings for the homeless.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 27, 2023

A Surge in Virtual Health Overnight, the pandemic exposed shortcomings in the healthcare system, leading to widespread adoption of virtual care services by patients and clinicians. of the total market share due to increased adoption to manage chronic conditions and monitor health outcomes.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Now that President Joe Biden has declared the COVID-19 pandemic over, the ATA's Telehealth Awareness Week policy update webinar explored how federal and state telehealth policies may be affected as Congress decides whether or not to end the public health emergency (PHE). " ON THE RECORD.

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Hall Render

MAY 19, 2023

Supplemental Grant for Rural Health Programs UAMS to Study Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Breast Cancer Treatment Arkansas Children’s Hospital Auxiliary Donates $1.4 Supplemental Grant for Rural Health Programs UAMS to Study Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Breast Cancer Treatment Arkansas Children’s Hospital Auxiliary Donates $1.4

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. healthcare system. People may be sick of being sick nationally and globally.

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