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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. Test dissemination methods to ensure they reach your entire workforce.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Molecular screening platforms, multi-gene panel & NGS tests will re-imagine large population cancer treatment pathways – representing an opportunity of some $1.7 Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021 Featured Decision Content:

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Nursing Home Update: CMS Unwinds Vaccine Mandate and More Regulations as Public Health Emergency End Nears

Hall Render

COVID Testing Requirements. 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.

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Telehealth and mail-order abortion possible in some states during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We were already doing much of the education and screening via some sort of telehealth platform," said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, the chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of the St. And abortion's price tag isn't always covered by insurance, which could put it out of reach financially.

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

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The promise of personalized medicine is a world in which interventions, screening, and therapeutics are targeted to those most likely to get the disease. Such is the effect of mutations in these genes, that testing for the presence of these mutations is now routinely performed in eligible women with a family history of breast cancer.

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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). COVID Testing Requirements. to establish a new requirement for nursing homes to test their nursing home residents and staff, including individuals providing services under arrangement and volunteers.

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Mobile patient communication and telehealth tool helps transform Indiana Hernia Center

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

My staff knows to tag me in any questions that are outside the norm so the answer comes from me. "And Klara provides a seamless telehealth solution that I can utilize with a flexible schedule for patients at their convenience to share screens and go through imaging in detail with them," he added.

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