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NTIA hands over $45B to state broadband offices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Complementing BEAD is the Digital Equity Act program that is granting $2.5 NTIA is implementing several smaller grant programs and most of these have started already. The Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program is a nearly $3 billion grant program, and $1.35 Additionally, there are 23 grants that will create 1,073 new jobs.

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HIMSS TV 2023 Forecast: Balancing Patient Privacy and Data Sharing

MRO Compliance

Best practices are provided for data tagging to ease searchability and reduce duplicate records. On one hand, the proposed changes in substance abuse data sharing offer enhanced information exchange by allowing a one-time permission granted by the patient for their data to be shared. sold, used in marketing efforts, etc.),

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A telehealth grant proposal without broadband. The FCC gave over $350 million in grants to healthcare organizations for telehealth capabilities – which was great! However, many of their underserved and low-income patients didn't have broadband to connect with grant recipients. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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With telehealth, one size won't fit all

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The FCC's COVID-19 telehealth program has awarded $ 200 million in grants explicitly focused on increasing access to care for lower-income populations in inner cities with subsidized and no-cost devices, improved internet access, and data plans. Consider those who reside in rural areas.

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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Assess how your organization can be nimble with granting access to systems and sites in emergencies. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19 Featured Decision Content: Be ready to support surging personnel.

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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare

HIT Consultant

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). But today, health systems aren’t just reluctant to grant patients administrative access to their care.

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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 F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. In November 2021, CMS issued an interim final rule requiring staff, including volunteers, in SNFs to have the first two-shot series of the COVID vaccination or be granted an approved exemption. COVID Staff Vaccine.