Foster Swift

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As noted in a prior blog post , the Michigan Supreme Court recently held that Governor Whitmer did not have authority after April 30, 2020 to issue or renew any executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More › Tags: Alerts and Updates , Compliance , Health Care Reform , Legislative Updates , Long-Term Care , News.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

COVID Regulations Impacted CMS issued several interim final rules during the PHE. COVID Testing Requirements. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-886. COVID Vaccine Education. The F-Tag associated with this regulation is F-887. COVID Staff Vaccine. COVID Reporting Requirements.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2021

While COVID-19 has accelerated the shift towards digital health, it has also given rise to a surge in workloads for CIOs and Chief Digital Officers. Region Tag: Global Edition. The 'problem of plenty' for healthcare organizations. Digital health startups, for their part, are fighting to stay relevant.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

'Break the silos' has been a tag line in data management for a long time, and COVID-19 showed it needs to become reality. There may be need for organisational, financial and governance changes to drive this change internally and through the ecosystem. 'Break

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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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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

[Follow the conference on Twitter using the hashtag #PrevCon2021 and the organizational tag @SafeKids]. Among the four key outcomes OECD identifies downstream, social, emotional and cultural capital have been greatly impacted during the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. across racial and ethnic lines.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last month, long-time colleague and friend Colin Hung interviewed me on the #HITMC broadcast to discuss a lovely recognition I’d received: HIT Advocate of the Year , a program highlighting various friends-in-the-field active in digital health, communications and marketing, sponsored by Medigy. ” “G” is for Gloves.

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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. for public health care projects and 5.2%

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

In particular, the hottest spot appeared to be a nursing home where one resident had been diagnosed with COVID-19 on February 28. The CDC reported in the aptly-named Morbidity and Mortality Report on this long-term care facility in late March, detailing cases among 81 residents, 34 staff members, and 14 visits. O is for outbreak.

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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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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

COVID-19 forced us to stuff a decades-long transformation into two years. Phone tags and missed calls are common. The healthcare industry has gone digital faster than anyone could’ve expected. Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic.

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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 22, 2021

Joyoti Goswami COVID-19 has spurred telehealth and remote patient monitoring adoption across the United States, with 36 percent of the US consumers now using telehealth to replace healthcare visits. To ensure these providers make the best use of the available resources while planning for the long term, CIOs must consider the following.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Analytics Population Health Quality and Safety Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 pandemic may be viewed as the single largest disruptor in the history of American healthcare. Just as the digital strategy was beginning to take shape, the first COVID-19 patient was admitted to a Geisinger hospital. Digital tools to combat COVID-19.

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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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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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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. Here you will find concise descriptions of the companies and their products. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S. 13, 2022, unless it’s renewed yet again.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

David Gray When President Joe Biden recently declared on national television that “the pandemic is over,” he offered a glimpse into the strategy his administration will be using on COVID-19 going forward: We’re ready to move on. In January 2020, then-Secretary of the U.S. 13, 2022, unless it’s renewed yet again.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

area hospital construction projects: From Inova’s new Springfield facility to Cedar Hill in Ward 8 MedStar Georgetown University Hospital is set to open its long-awaited pavilion. to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M Here’s a look.

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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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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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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 goes a long way when it means usable, effortless and impactful solutions to serve everyone in healthcare.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

Hartford HealthCare teams with state DOT to train police to draw blood It takes a long time to make many changes at CT hospitals. to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector An Academic Lifeline for Rural Hospitals CHI St. Connecticut’s ‘certificate of need’ law under scrutiny Hartford HealthCare’s Black & Red Gala raises $2.6M Here’s why.

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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. And for a long, long time, that's been irreconcilable, because we've become more and more specialized. So how do we use technology to bridge the gap?

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SQA

MAY 24, 2021

Even with more of the world receiving their Covid-19 vaccinations, there are some countries lagging behind or dealing with a different strain. These continued hurdles are met with passion to succeed from SQA clients producing more vaccines to increase supply, and other options to fight Covid-19. Hey Associates!

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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 2, 2024

Vincent North Welcomes Bonney as President Governor discusses rural healthcare during Mountain Home’s ‘Capital for a Day’ CALIFORNIA 3 health systems’ retention strategies that paid off in 2023 Cedars-Sinai CEO to retire CVS shuttering 25 MinuteClinics in Los Angeles Judge to consider Madera hospital reopening plan. ‘We

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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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