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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What can be expected in healthcare and health IT now that the PHE has ended, and what does this mean for the future of telehealth? What does the end of the PHE mean for the future of telemedicine?

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Zealous for Wellness: How to Replace Hype with Data

Healthcare IT Today

Medicare Advantage programs are vaunting their support for “wellness,” and you see wellness campaigns at pharmacies, employers, and elsewhere. Until recently, some experts claimed that a drink a day could improve health. Medicare has wisely refrained from making a clinician responsible for outcomes.

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Telehealth Is Just Healthcare Now – One Post-COVID Certainty, Three Reports

Health Populi

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Developing low- and middle-income countries are relying primarily on COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, which is co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and the World Health Organization.

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The 2022 Health Populi TrendCast for Consumers and Health Citizens

Jane Sarashon

In early December, FarmBoxRx was the first online grocer to be approved to channel food to SNAP/EBT recipients as payment from Medicare and Medicaid. enabling enrollees in Medicare and Medicaid to order fresh produce online. Many tech companies are working to improve public health and individuals’ health equity.

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Health Provider News – September 23, 2022

Hall Render

Amazon PillPack Founders to Leave in Latest Health-Care Shakeup. Congress presses Meta about health data privacy after hospitals remove Facebook tracker. Healthcare Compliance Will Be a Challenge in Post-PHE World. Health systems grow apprenticeships to tackle shortages. Centura Health trims 1% of workforce.

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Biden Administration Unveils Long-Awaited COVID-19 Rules For Large Employers and Healthcare Workers

Health Law RX

The first rule, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (the “OSHA Rule”), will require private employers with 100 or more employees to ensure that each of their workers is either fully vaccinated, or tests negative for COVID-19 at least once per week. The CMS Rule. The details of CMS’ emergency regulation follow below.