Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What was the strategy behind incorporating full-blown telemedicine into your business? Telemedicine has always been at the core of Hims & Hers' business. Our business took off immediately, and we were more driven than ever to continue helping people access care and education in a different, more convenient and welcoming way.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 6, 2023

Digitally-enabled care is the future of telehealth – “telehealth” has become industry norm since the start of the pandemic and used as a catchall term for everything from virtual doctor’s appointments to at-home testing kits. The pandemic brought forth an era of unprecedented challenges in how we deliver and do business in healthcare.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

What You Should Know: – Competition in the provider IT space shows no signs of abating: Early-stage capital, big tech, and scale EMR players continue crowding into more segments. Covid-19–era staffing shortfalls and burnout among physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, as well as IT and office personnel, continue to plague providers.

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Health Populi

MARCH 19, 2019

This was a family business run by mom and dad, started after World War II. Payors have begun to recognize the value of nudging consumers toward over-the-counter products under Medicare Advantage plans. Here’s a video that talks about some of these findings – with the tagline, “Don’t waste your day feeling sick.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Integrating health benefit accounts, payment plans and even Medicaid enrollment will help meet patients where they are on their financial journey. Yet, 55% require help navigating the process of applying.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In 2024, this will be a continued shift toward seeking an increased level of health literacy and proactive health choices that will reduce preventable conditions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., This latest feature story has a special focus: children's hospitals. Matt MacVey, vice president and CIO, Children's National Hospital, Washington, D.C. ( @MattMacVey ).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT. Security and business associate agreements. "This is important, especially because PHI in transit and at rest must be appropriately secured."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

This hands-on experience in the industry gives them the opportunity to bring their medical knowledge and business-growing experience into their investment strategy and process – with the ultimate aim of improving patient care and outcomes. Dr. Justin Norden is a partner at GSR Ventures.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 29, 2022

Note: Humblest apologies to Dr. Smart for typing her name wrong in the video and for not tagging her properly @KatharineSmart ]. The only difference is that Lotus continues to bill the provincial single-payer and not patients directly. As the pandemic wanes, more physicians and hospital services are moving back to in-person visits.

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

NATIONAL 14 rural senators push CMS to extend low-wage hospitals’ payment bump in FY2024 American Hospital Association voices support for telehealth expansion bill Behavioral health market to hit $262B by 2029 Biden administration moves to establish ‘guardrails’ for telehealth prescriptions CMS Officials Confirm End of PHE Nursing (..)

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

How do you maintain the security and privacy of your patient’s health information as cyberattacks continue to climb? Finally, to maximize results, communications platforms must seamlessly fit into and optimize existing workflows, not require providers to reinvent what they do best.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 15, 2023

NATIONAL AHA pushes back on HHS proposal to penalize hospitals for cyberattacks AHA urges Congress to oppose H.R. Newsom seeks changes to California’s new healthcare wage law Prime completes California hospital sale Rare disease tech company was rolled up two years ago.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 26, 2024

NATIONAL 55% of rural hospitals don’t offer obstetric care: Report Academic health systems are scooping up hospitals AHA says Medicare payments to long-term care hospitals are inadequate AHA Warns Hospitals of IT Help Desk Social Engineering Scheme Amazon Pharmacy connects with One Medical Biden administration reinforces reproductive health obligations (..)

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

340B safety-net hospitals lost $2.96M from drugmaker restrictions, AHA finds. American Hospital Association Throws Weight Behind Nursing Home TNA Legislation. CMS leader says health innovation must be accessible to everyone. Decades of neglect in nursing homes spur Biden plan for staff mandates. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 14, 2022

How hospital CIOs, IT leaders prepared for the new information-blocking rule. USDA awards health care grants to rural hospitals in Mississippi, Alabama. Encompass Health, Piedmont plan to build rehab hospital in Georgia. Bartlett Regional Hospital announces Fireweed Award recipients. Moving the Needle on SDOH Data.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2022

Fauci to step down in December to ‘mentor the next generation’ EMTALA covers abortion in Idaho hospitals, judge rules. Federal judge blocks HHS guidance that emergency medical care must include abortion services. New rural hospital model draws interest – and questions. CALIFORNIA.

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Health Populi

JULY 30, 2018

Over many years, I’ve written extensively about the continuing evolution and deepening of Amazon in healthcare , along with Apple , Facebook , and Google efforts. Florida Hospital, Tampa. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in collaboration with Weill Cornell Medicine and Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Individuals suffering from substance abuse disorder (SUD) must also be able to get the treatment they need during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has meant changes needed to be made to 42 CFR Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records (Part 2) regulations. The compliance date for the CMS rule was July 1, 2021.

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Hall Render

MAY 5, 2023

acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care? acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint Did Hospitals Violate EMTALA by Failing to Provide Abortion Care?

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

5 moves to know Ransomware Attacks Target Undermanned US Rural Hospitals: Report Research: What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?

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SQA

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to the announcement, an ANDA without an RLD means that the applicant plans to copy a drug that is not in the RLD Catalog. It puts a particular focus on the most critical medicines , for which security of supply in the EU must be ensured at all times. The CCD chip is sensitive to heat and mechanical shocks.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

NATIONAL AHA, AHCA warn CMS against unfunded nursing home staffing mandates AHA to Congress: Funding rural hospitals is critical for access AHA-supported bill to aid small rural hospitals reintroduced in Senate Biden won’t veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency CVS-branded hospitals?

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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

JANUARY 28, 2022

Biden administration withdraws Covid vaccine mandate for businesses after losing Supreme Court case. CIOs’ 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies. Healthcare groups urge Congress to extend Acute Hospital Care at Home waiver. Hospital discharge pressures build as nursing homes clamor for help.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

11% of US hospitals critically understaffed, 21% anticipate shortages: Numbers by state. Are hospitals getting more aggressive against private practices? CMS cuts payments to 764 hospitals over patient complications. Hospitals urge Biden, Becerra to extend emergency declarations as hospitalizations reach pandemic highs.

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Hall Render

JUNE 16, 2023

Artificial Intelligence Poses Threat to Patient Privacy Bill for Rural Hospital Cyber Skills Passes Senate Committee Chemotherapy shortages push cancer centers toward crisis CMS estimates national spending on hospital care grew just 0.8%

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

Such major HIPAA updates placed a significant burden on HIPAA-covered entities and considerable time and effort were required to introduce new policies and procedures to ensure continued HIPAA compliance. There are no planned changes to the HIPAA Security Rule, but several HIPAA Privacy Rule changes have been proposed.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

And it will mark the first time the politicians meet in person even as they have very publicly traded barbs and insults, in recent weeks attacking each other in fundraising videos and campaign ads. And insurance companies doing business in California must include information on in-network providers for gender-affirming services by 2025.

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