Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years. Amongst these tragic circumstances there has also been a lot of attention on technology in healthcare and public health. This is a gap and adds to the friction for clinicians and their patients.

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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. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

to establish a new requirement for nursing homes to test their nursing home residents and staff, including individuals providing services under arrangement and volunteers. 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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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. This waiver provides temporary emergency coverage of SNF services without a qualifying hospital stay. As a result, SNFs may use telehealth for approved services that include some physician visits.

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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. What this means for telehealth and connected health policy.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Population Health Precision Medicine Telehealth Workforce From vaccines to virtual care, enterprise imaging to precision medicine, these are the growth areas that will shape the direction of healthcare, this year and beyond. Hospitals will also lobby hard to receive revenues from telehealth services.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 12, 2020

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. A study by non-profit group FAIR Health suggests a 4,000% increase in telehealth claims across the country. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 30, 2022

A survey from digital health platform Babylon found that 46% of Americans have gone into debt from their medical bills , while 34% are currently struggling to pay their medical and insurance bills. Haleon is using the the Microsoft Seeing AI app to provide more detailed labels on more than 1,500 of its consumer health products.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. As a DPC physician myself, bringing Hint Health and AeroDPC together is extremely exciting and powerful for DPC as a whole” says Dr. Brown.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

However, BizNow recently reported that life sciences startups are decreasing their space demands on a national basis due to the recent economic slowdown. These services match families with facilities for loved ones based on their desired criteria, with partner operators paying a fee for the referral service.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

Several hospitals and health systems have reported the use of these tracking technologies to OCR as data breaches, and many lawsuits have been filed against hospitals over the use of these tools, some of which have resulted in large settlements. For example, Novant Health agreed to pay $6.6 For example, Novant Health agreed to pay $6.6

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov. to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector An Academic Lifeline for Rural Hospitals CHI St.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert. CALIFORNIA 8 ASCs opening in Florida, California and New York A bankrupt California hospital left a health care desert.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The ASCA Medicare Rate Calculator displays national and local payment rates, as well as a chart comparing the rates charged by ASCs and HOPDs for the same surgical procedures, and additional information. ASCA members can view an ASC-specific surveyor tag tool. Coding and capturing all patient services can be overwhelming.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

The vision/optical industry is one piece of the health/care ecosystem, but the segment has not been as directly impacted by patients’ new consumer muscles until just about now. I was grateful to have an opportunity to share my views with attendees on the vision patient as health consumer through the health economic lens.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

NATIONAL Amazon Pharmacy, One Medical pilot program integrates medication consultations Bad news for FTC’s noncompete ban Cigna to sell Medicare business to HCSC for $3.3B Opens in North Little Rock CHI St.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. The photo underneath the star was printed from a local newspaper article showing public health and LTC staff wearing hazmat-type suits.

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

NATIONAL 79 percent have positive outlook for senior living and care: NIC 12 key legal issues impacting health systems AHA: 94% of hospitals financially impacted by Change Healthcare’s cyberattack A conversation about the HHS plan on AI in health care A new kind of hospital is coming to rural America.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 1, 2023

to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M to Recruit, Train Primary Care Students UAMS Gets $17.5M

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

2022 was a year with high and low points for the health care real estate industry. To subscribe to our weekly health care real estate briefing, click here. 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

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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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?

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: One of the earliest and most important books on the benefits of “doing less” in healthcare was Shannon Brownlee’s Overtreated , which I’ve covered here in Health Populi since the start of the blog in 2007. The ASCO story is such good news.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Social determinants of health: The next stage of value-based care. Collection. by September 30, 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Therasa Bell, Cofounder, President and CTO at Kno2 , has spent her career in healthcare IT, so it’s very meaningful to hear her speak of Kno2’s intention to become a designated QHIN (Qualified Health Information Network) under the TEFCA, asserting, “This is a turning point”. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has retooled guidance it armed surveyors with regarding how to survey skilled nursing facilities for compliance with the CMS staff vaccine requirements. National Health Safety Network (“NHSN”) Data. F-888 is the citation tag that was created under 42 CFR Section 483.80(i),

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies. Bardy Diagnostics.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 23, 2022

As one of the top surgery centers in the nation per Newsweek for both 2021 and 2022, The Surgical Center at?Columbia There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. " MARKETPLACE. To read the special report, click here.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In this episode of Health Care Law Today, Nate Lacktman and Maureen Stewart are joined by Mark Josephs, Deputy General Counsel of LifeMD to discuss the current regulatory and legal environment for telemedicine companies regarding online subscription services, and the recent investigations by the federal government of these services.

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