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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. It has various applications in healthcare, including tracking medical equipment and medicines, monitoring patient movements, and managing medication inventory. FDA’s Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

Non-adherence to medications is a huge issue. We also can’t escape data tracking across platforms. They analyze patient data, determine patients at risk of non-adherence, and reach out for support with their prescriptions. Phone tags and missed calls are common. There’s a better way to leverage the expertise of nurses.

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Drug Price Transparency: Planning for Change

HIT Consultant

This trend is also confirmed by a 2021 GoodRx survey around medication adherence and drug cost, which shows that 18.7% Additionally, these services can have a substantial price tag for pharma manufacturers, adding further to the financial burdens of compliance. of people ration medication to extend their prescriptions.

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Skilled Nursing Compliance Update: CMS Hands Surveyors Revised Details on How to Review the Staff Vaccine Requirement

Hall Render

i)(3)(iii), skilled nursing facilities are required to ensure those staff who are not yet fully vaccinated, who have a pending or have been granted an exemption or who have a temporary delay as recommended by the CDC, adhere to additional precautions that are intended to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Under 42 CFR Section 483.80(i)(3)(iii),

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Beyond telehealth: the virtual care technology trends that will transform healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Inspired by the success of Singapore and South Korea, contact tracing applications on Bluetooth-enabled devices have been positioned as an effective means to track and trace infections to reduce the spread of COVID-19 ( "contact tracers" are also among the hottest job categories in today's labor market). Contact tracing.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace. Hello Heart.

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