Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2023

'Show me the money' Every state has a broadband office that is responsible for dispersing funds to unserved and underserved communities. State broadband offices are responsible for determining how funds will be disbursed, whether it's a lottery form or a competitive bidding scenario.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Telehealth could be particularly helpful for the many people in the United States without paid sick time or good transportation options. The United Soybean Board surveyed farm operations nationwide in 2021, for instance, and found that nearly 60% of U.S. Currently 17 states enact some probation on public-owned broadband.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. Diabetes affects 11% and obesity 41.9% of the US population, collectively representing some of the most prevalent chronic conditions in the United States.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2020

Neil UW Medicine was one of the first healthcare systems on the front line of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. Region Tag: Global Edition Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19 Featured Decision Content:

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spread across the United States this spring, the demand for telehealth skyrocketed in turn – as did concerns about patient access to virtual care. WHY IT MATTERS. At the same time, patients have turned to telehealth as a way to avoid in-person transmission and address medical needs.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 23, 2021

The parts are scattered among different business units where they may simply limp along or quietly shut down. Amazon's recently launched Amazon Care has run into scaling issues almost from the get-go, with the unit's head acknowledging they will need " thousands of employees " to scale. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2022

Hospital at home programs are pretty popular in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. This approach has never quite taken off in the United States – until now , where there is a renewed emphasis on population health management and value-based care as telehealth has also gained wider acceptance.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 18, 2022

The Oklahoma Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) initiated the investigation after a referral was received by the Oklahoma State Department of Health – Protective Health Services Long-Term Care regarding the report of a nursing home resident missing money from her room.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 8, 2022

On November 28, 2022, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality issued a memorandum to State Survey Agency Directors stating that hospitals risk Condition of Participation (CoP) violations for failure to adequately respond to and prevent incidents of workplace violence. 42 C.F.R.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

K is for Kirkland, Washington state. The infection quickly spread through the facility and then to others in King County, Washington state. This sobering journal page features a map of the western United States with a star sticker identifying the Kirkland location on the map. In the U.S.,

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2023

While the report noted the continued challenges posed by the economy and staffing shortages, it also noted that Medicaid reimbursements are set to increase in a number of states, and consolidation among regional players may create economies of scale that will boost the sector. On the social determinants front, St. Larry Hogan has agreed.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 23, 2022

Many countries require web sites to meet accessibility guidelines; in the United States, both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and HIPAA include such requirements. Accommodations, televisits, haptic feedback, etc., are great advances. But services designed without disabled people in mind can be discriminatory.

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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.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Working with hospitals, health systems, providers, and start-ups to build telemedicine arrangements across the United States, his practice emphasizes strategic counseling, creative business modeling, and fresh approaches to realize clients' ambitious and innovative goals. States are moving that way.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2020, telemedicine truly, finally hit the mainstream in the United States. When COVID-19 hit, CareMount Medical, the largest independent multispecialty medical group in New York State, with more than 650 physicians, recognized the need to restrict in-office visits and make some rapid changes to its telehealth approach.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Teri Ridge, RN, Clinical Operations Advisor, LeanTaaS Frontline nurses across the country remain in a state of constant crisis as they attempt to deliver patient care while facing tremendously stressful environments, untenable patient-to-nurse ratios, and frustrating process inefficiencies.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As Program Manager, she enjoys driving quality in the aerospace industry and working with inspectors all over the United States. Tag us on social media with #SQAAlreadyHere, or email your photos to media@sqaservices.com. She started as a Program Coordinator on the SpaceX program and now serves as the Program Manager.

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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

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

But some patients fear they could lose access CONNECTICUT Alleged DNR mix-up death highlights concerns for nursing homes CT hospital mergers mean higher prices and fewer competitors, state report says Fix or nix? Hartford HealthCare teams with state DOT to train police to draw blood It takes a long time to make many changes at CT hospitals.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The top states in terms of business climate were Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas. States like Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia all considered CON reforms that would make it easier for new health care facilities to be established. Growth Markets Making the News.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

in federal funds for hospitals State of the State 2024: Arkansas health care faces challenges Study ranks Arkansas at the absolute bottom for dental health A mosaic of medical staffing solutions: Groups work to increase health care workforce in Northwest Arkansas CHI St. ‘We 5 highest paid anesthesiologists in Washington, DC D.C.’s

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Redox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Payers, providers, regulators, and patients rarely agree, but they are united in their disdain for prior authorization. According to the 2020 CAQH index , PA is the single largest expense for the healthcare industry with a total price tag estimated at about $767 million annually. It might, quite literally, be the worst.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

McKinsey & Company, “Behavioral health crisis in the United States: The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic” (September 1, 2020). There are a lot of “blockbuster” drugs coming to market today and in the near future with eye-watering price tags. David Cordani, Cigna’s CEO, shared an interesting “big picture” perspective.

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SQA

DECEMBER 21, 2023

During the recent SEC gathering, we successfully brought together talented individuals united by a shared passion for quality. Elkins career and personal travel have taken him to 49 states, 18 countries, and 5 continents. Tag us on social media with #SQAAlreadyHere, or email your photos to sqa-media@sqaservices.com.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While the lower Alabama Courts concluded that the cryopreserved embryos were not a person or child under the state’s law, the Alabama Supreme Court disagreed and held that the state’s Wrongful Death of a Minor Act “applies to all unborn children, regardless of their location,” and that the plaintiff’s wrongful death claims could proceed.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 5, 2024

States have also taken action over the use of Meta pixel and other website trackers, with New York Presbyterian Hospital settling a Pixel-related HIPAA violation case with the New York Attorney General for $300,000. Unauthorized consumer data collection through third-party trackers, tags, and pixels. hospitals found 98.6%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

The so-called “safe haven” laws to which Justice Coney Barrett was referring were passed in every state from 1999 to 2009, to designate places where or people to whom an unharmed baby may be legally and anonymously relinquished and then adopted. A Florida safe haven advocacy group argues , “Safe Haven babies are given a chance for a future.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2023

The company’s OTC switch program has been eight years in the making, culminating in the publication of this research paper finding that of an OTC progestin-only pill could reduce the overall number of unintended pregnancies in the United States. who started with the question, “What does Mucinex do?”

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Hall Render

MARCH 22, 2024

Banner Health to expand clinical AI to 33 hospitals, 6 states Banner reports $282.8M Banner Health to expand clinical AI to 33 hospitals, 6 states Banner reports $282.8M Banner Health to expand clinical AI to 33 hospitals, 6 states Banner reports $282.8M family sues hospital over life-altering injuries Calif.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

State officials are noncommittal Nursing home in CT accused of neglect, staffing shortages Lawsuit: Routine procedure would have saved Oxford mom who died after 2020 childbirth DC D.C.’s Megan Ranney to become next dean of Yale School of Public Health How is Nuvance complying with its affiliation agreement?

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Luke’s unveils ‘transformative’ Boise facility ILLINOIS Advocate Aurora uses anticompetitive tactics to drive up prices, lawsuit alleges Illinois hospital looks for financial partner to ensure continued care Nine more Petersen Health Care facilities are placed into receivership Could Illinois become a ‘right to die’ state?

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Drug & Device Law

JULY 25, 2023

When Bexis sends around the weekly list of cases, we jump on the ones where the United States is the first listed party. The ride in United States v. The operative indictment charged the three defendants with conspiracy to defraud and to commit offenses against the United States. Vepuri , 2023 U.S.

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