Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Goolsbee and Jason Furman, former Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, tag-teamed the U.S. ” COVID-19 is, indeed, a tough boss. hit a COVID-19 mortality apex of 4,000 deaths in one day, a spike that resulted in part from holiday reunions among family and friends in late December through New Year’s.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has retooled guidance it armed surveyors with regarding how to survey skilled nursing facilities for compliance with the CMS staff vaccine requirements. Vaccination Enforcement – Flexibility. Surveyor Review. Under 42 CFR Section 483.80(i)(3)(iii),

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Health providers quickly pivoted to make the most of temporary telehealth flexibilities when the COVID-19 public health emergency started in 2020. While Congress and CMS have considered permanently expanding access to telehealth and virtual care, there is a big price tag attached.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

This in turn lets staff take a backseat with regard to monotonous engagement tasks like playing phone tag (so they can instead focus on the direct patient interactions that matter most). Playing phone tag and digging up yet another username and password combination is not the kind of active involvement patients are seeking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data. Region Tag: Europe/UK Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Riding the digital wave through COVID-19 Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In July, the White House recruited 1,000 barbershops and hair salons to be COVID vaccination centers. Region Tag: Global Edition. Marrying telehealth chronic healthcare and home care so the constant appointments and treatments can be made less intrusive at home, or possibly a office at work. After the dream comes work.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. COVID Regulations and the PHE CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. COVID Staff Vaccine.

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Health Law RX

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you still have unvaccinated workers in January, might you provide a financial incentive for employees to be vaccinated, by charging them higher healthcare insurance premiums? Depending on the overall tone and messaging strategy related to employee vaccinations, it is likely that a company may prefer one over the other.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

fraud scheme Nursing home must face vaccine-related wrongful firing claim, but not $2M retaliation accusations Transgender woman sues employer, Harvard Pilgrim for discrimination MICHIGAN 48-unit senior housing development could go up next to Vicksburg Halls in Marysville Can ads help a Michigan nursing home fix a staffing crisis?

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This paper, dated August 2020, pointed out that this data could help prioritize efforts at COVID-19 testing and contact tracing—today, of course, we would add vaccinations. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH.

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SQA

MAY 24, 2021

Being able to do this was largely made possible by the different vaccines being distributed throughout the country. Even with more of the world receiving their Covid-19 vaccinations, there are some countries lagging behind or dealing with a different strain. Working from home did not dampen our SQA global spirit.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So, what has been the impact of COVID-19 on SQA? I was close to signing a lease in February that would have committed us to 11 years and millions of dollars at a space that would not have worked for the headquarters team in a “post-COVID” world. We anticipate a change as COVID-19 slows and travel picks back up.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Early in the year, vaccination rates, masking requirements and Covid-19-related deaths still made headlines. In November and December, health experts reported an alarming number of Covid-19, flu and RSV cases, the combination of which they refer to as a “tripledemic”.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

NATIONAL Biden plans to end the Covid public health emergency this spring in a major shift to federal response Biden administration will end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11 Can a drugstore be your only doctor? Now hospitals are charging them.

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

Minnesota hospital names new CEO How UnitedHealth’s CEO personally supported a physician following cyberattack Provider lawsuits pile up in wake of Change hack Mayo unveils launch pad for digital health tools MISSISSIPPI Mississippi has the nation’s worst infant mortality.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Two medical groups move to reopen it California bill would enable community colleges to offer BSNs California medical office building evacuated following equipment fire Cedars-Sinai’s Priselac Announces Retirement Eskaton downsizes amid $13.6 million operating loss Judge Keeps FCA Case Against Kaiser Permanente Alive Kaiser Permanente reports $4.1B

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