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Telehealth: Lifesaving Care During A Crisis

Electronic Health Reporter

But whatever the means we use to deliver care, there […]. The article Telehealth: Lifesaving Care During A Crisis appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Coronavirus has forced practices nationwide to undertake dramatic changes in how they practice medicine.

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Telemental Healthcare Access Act would repeal in-person service requirements

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

would remove the statutory requirement that Medicare beneficiaries be seen in person within six months of receiving mental health services through telehealth. would remove the statutory requirement that Medicare beneficiaries be seen in person within six months of receiving mental health services through telehealth. Bill Cassidy, R-La.,

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Health IT execs offer thoughts on the big issues of 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As vaccines continue to roll out, requiring meticulous record-keeping and specialized shipping and storage conditions (and that's to say nothing of the ongoing critical need for PPE and other lifesaving equipment) nowhere are interoperability and data visibility more important than with healthcare supply chains.

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The End of One Health Crisis Must Not Lead to a New One

HIT Consultant

As much as we would like to go back to normal, it seems that simply turning the page on the PHE without carrying forward what we learned during Covid will leave millions of Americans scrambling for healthcare and disengaging from essential preventive health services. General Manager of Healthy.io

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How the pandemic has reshaped CIOs' views on adaptability, agility, security and hiring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Among some other lessons learned by IT execs during the past year and a half: the importance of IT teams partnering with clinical, financial and operational teams at a moment's notice, and the difficulty of hiring key staff during a crisis that needed all hands on deck. Technology leaders at U.S.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

Mary’s hospitals in $100M deal University of California reaches $975M deal to buy 4 hospitals from Tenet University of the Pacific doubles size of physician assistant program with new building in Oak Park How a new California agency aims to cap your health care costs California health care workers won a path to $25 minimum wage.

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Health Provider News – May 20, 2022

Hall Render

AMA, organizations launch effort to apply equity lens to patient care. State Actions to Address Nursing Home Staffing During COVID-19. Army Responds To Troops’ Mental Health Crisis In Alaska. How will California health care workers get state bonuses? Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design.