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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Reduce community transmission with patient self-screening. Make patient screening tools accessible prior to presenting. Priority needs to be on ensuring your patients know how to self-screen. Consider hosting a drill where all non-essential staff work from home.

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Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

To meet this need, a digital screening method, along with an administrative dashboard, was created to replace the ad hoc paper process. More than 250,000 patients and visitors across hospital entrances and community practice clinics were screened for COVID-19 symptoms.

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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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Boston Medical Center boosts care for epileptic kids with telehealth-analytics platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

They also needed to screen for seizures in high-risk populations, as well as improve their transition planning. And it proposed that the Activate CareHub could be used for patient seizure screenings. It has helped eliminate phone tag by providing a secure place to message. " Dr. Laurie Douglass, Boston Medical Center.

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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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Study: NYC Black, Latino patients less likely than white patients to use telehealth during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Using the Mount Sinai De-Identified COVID-19 database, researchers examined information from all patients diagnosed with, placed under investigation for, or screened negative for COVID-19 with any Mount Sinai system provider between March 20 and May 18. In areas with broadband availability, telehealth is still not always an option.

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TikTok Reveals Consumers Want Engaging Healthcare Content

HIT Consultant

A quick search will discover that posts tagged with #DoctorsofTikTok have 8 billion views. Digital approaches can also better support patients that are deaf, blind, or have other access barriers by using closed captioning, screen readers, and other tools.