Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2020

Despite the significant pressures on services across the NHS associated with our COVID-19 response, and indeed because of them, there has been a significant acceleration of digital transformation across many areas of health in the UK. Looking beyond COVID-19.

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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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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. to establish a new requirement for nursing homes to test their nursing home residents and staff, including individuals providing services under arrangement and volunteers. COVID Vaccine Education.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Sometimes failing to comply can carry a big price tag: The U.S. It's no surprise that federal and state regulatory compliance, particularly where information sharing is concerned, can present challenges for healthcare organizations. " ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"We’ve seen the undue burden and hardship these restrictions create during COVID-19, especially in communities hit hardest by the pandemic," said Skye Perryman, chief legal officer at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which was a coplaintiff in the case. " she said.

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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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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

COVID-19 forced us to stuff a decades-long transformation into two years. Patients need human expertise, empathy, and guidance when navigating prescriptions to medication, at-home tests, and other remote treatments that affect their health. Perhaps a patient doesn’t understand how to take their medication or administer an at-home test.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

States can require visitors to be tested before entering the SNF so long as rapid testing is available and if a rapid test isn’t available, the visitor must be allowed to visit the resident so long as the visitor doesn’t report any COVID-19 symptoms per Hall Render.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation. The following is a guest article by Scott Hondros, Vice President of Professional Services at CenTrak.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

What You Should Know: New and more stringent regulations have increased documentation burden for long-term care (LTC) provider organizations, and this combined with other factors (COVID-19, staff turnover, increased LTC demand) has intensified clinician and nurse burnout in LTC.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Fast-forward to 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic struck. And with EHRs online, patients can access their records to see their latest test results, treatment plans and other information, giving them more control over their outcomes. Primary care doctors and specialists are now able to collaborate online to improve quality of care.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. Prior to founding Ossia, Zeine was a director/principal engineer at Microsoft, leading PM, Development and Test initiatives.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Stressors from COVID-19 and virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

So crazy seeing empty stands while dreams are realized but I must commend Tokyo for a largely uneventful Olympics and Paralympics given the current myriad of Covid distractions. Following such a rocky 2020, our clients and their suppliers have all found ways to adapt to a post-COVID world and are making up for lost time.

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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.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Well, first, telemedicine really advanced during the COVID pandemic, where a lot of people found it very useful in a way to stay well by using telemedicine. One thing I’m looking out for is how many states draw back on telemedicine now that the COVID crisis is mostly over. With that in mind, let’s start with you, Mark.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. To test this assumption, I surveyed my patients. The survey consisted of one question: Considering the current COVID-19 pandemic, would you prefer a virtual visit (video or phone) or an in-person/in-clinic visit?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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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. The CODE managers said that data sharing needs to be improved even within HHS itself.

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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. Background.

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Health Law RX

AUGUST 31, 2021

To be clear, as we have previously noted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued guidance noting that there are circumstances under which employers can require employees to get a COVID-19 vaccine, so long as they make reasonable accommodations for those with disabilities or sincerely held religious beliefs.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I’ll be honest, it was refreshing to hear a President & Co-Founder of a healthcare IT company celebrating the dropping of the word “interoperability” from their tag line. And as COVID taught us, so much more…. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful. The Time Is Right to Bring Everyone into the Folds via QHINs.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

primary care providers $20M UMass Chan Medical School, MITRE plan to open assurance lab to test healthcare AI What happens if Saint Anne’s Hospital closes? cities; 2 others in Georgia are unhealthiest Channel 2 gets exclusive look inside new hospital for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Ga.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have elbowed their way into a seemingly flush market, while patient interest in telehealth has waxed and waned. It's been a busy few years for virtual care, to say the least. Now, many patients and providers are asking: What will telehealth look like five or ten years from now?

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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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