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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The future will see chronic disease being managed more from homes and physicians' offices than in a hospital setting. Infrastructure to manage chronic diseases remotely. These diseases impact at least half of the adult population globally and account for over 80% healthcare costs.

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My ABCovid-19 Journal, Day 2 – Letters “F” through “J”

Health Populi

Click the link to back-track and catch up with us… I should explain why I’m sharing this project in the Health Populi blog this week. ” A surprise element here is the Echo tag that came from a pair of gloves I recently purchased. “H” is for hand-washing.

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

Hall Render

CMS expects all skilled nursing providers’ staff to have received the appropriate number of doses of the primary vaccine series unless exempted as required by law, or delayed as recommended by Centers for Disease Control. F-888 is the citation tag that was created under 42 CFR Section 483.80(i), Surveyor Review. 42 CFR Section 483.80(i)

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Vocal Markers Move Toward Clinical Use

Healthcare IT Today

Readers of this publication probably have heard of the impressive advances in analyzing voice patterns for disease. A simple app on a cell phone can detect unusual patterns in speech that suggest when a person is depressed or anxious, is losing cognitive function, or has pulmonary disease. India’s second-greatest health problem.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. 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.

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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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Health Provider News

Hall Render

To qualify, facilities must close their beds Amazon’s physician acquisition strategy As Many Hospitals Continue to Face Significant Financial Challenges, MedPAC Recommends Highest Ever Medicare Payment Update Change competitors step in but breaking up may be hard to do CMS to launch new primary care ACO program Congress unveils $1.2T