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Digital Health Disconnect Creates Unnecessary Roadblock to Patient Engagement

HIT Consultant

Age-old challenges like access to care, chronic disease management, and adherence to annual well visits and routine preventive screenings should now be easily addressed with the same efficiency we’re seeing in other aspects of our consumer lives. But they are not.

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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The CMS Memo provides that while this specific regulatory requirement will end with the PHE, CMS still expects facilities to conduct COVID testing in accordance with accepted national standards, such as national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) recommendations.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Molecular screening platforms, multi-gene panel & NGS tests will re-imagine large population cancer treatment pathways – representing an opportunity of some $1.7 Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021 Featured Decision Content:

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

HIT Consultant

The promise of personalized medicine is a world in which interventions, screening, and therapeutics are targeted to those most likely to get the disease. Polygenic risk scores will help society reach this ambition by accurately assessing the contribution that one’s DNA makes to disease risk. . Take breast cancer as an example.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, researchers found higher rates of cardiovascular diseases and poor outcomes among people today whose neighborhoods were redlined in the 1930s. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. SDoH data can help us identify and help these people—perhaps even before they have diagnosable diseases.

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Key Areas of Focus for Skilled Nursing Facilities as the Public Health Emergency Ends

Hall Render

The blanket waivers currently impacted by the end of the PHE include: Pre-Admission Screening and Annual Resident Review (PASRR). The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-888.

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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.

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