Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 8, 2020

Mamdouh Riad, a solo practitioner in Hyannis, Massachusetts, began to take notice that he would not be able to see patients in the office as usual and had many patients start to cancel appointments as they were nervous about coming in. THE PROBLEM. " Dr. Mamdouh Riad, solo practitioner. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 19, 2022

Murthy’s warning to the industry was that unless significant steps are taken to reduce the crisis of stress, exhaustion and burnout among physicians, nurses and other clinicians, the nation’s health will suffer through worsening of access to care and quality of care due to lack of resources. Please expand on this.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Like many other moderately sized community hospitals with ambulatory clinics, Ellis Medicine in Schenectady, New York, is challenged with providing its patients and community with not only expanded and alternative methods of access to primary and specialty care, but also ensuring that care is provided in the right setting.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. Do you think we're at an inflection point for virtual care and RPM?

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you’re a patient or a physician in the U.S., Congress can’t agree on much before the 2024 summer recess, there’s one bipartisan stroke of political pens in Washington, DC, that could provide some satisfaction for both patients and doctors: bring telehealth back to patients and providers permanently. While the 118 th U.S.

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Hall Render

MARCH 26, 2024

Health care continues to drive private equity activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework.

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2024

Health care continues to drive private equity activity, creating opportunities for investors and traditional health care providers. Transactions in the health care space are especially complicated, layering health care regulatory and reimbursement considerations on top of a complex securities, antitrust, privacy and security framework.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The FDA has just approved a new antiviral drug, Remdesivir from Gilead Sciences , for treating COVID-19 patients needing acute care in a hospital. Dexamethasone , a steroid treatment to alleviate a severe systemic inflammatory response that can lead to lung injury, is also being used for treating severely ill COVID-19 patients.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Just as we experienced “e-business” departments blurring into ecommerce and everyday business processes, so is “telehealth” morphing into, simply, health care delivery as one of many channels and platforms. Telehealth and virtual care are key education topics and exhibitor presences at HIMSS19.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Management and treatment covered mental illness, acute conditions, neurodevelopmental and neurological disorders, noncommunicable diseases, and end-of-life care. In addition, Arts on Prescription has also been successfully deployed in the prison system especially among juvenile offenders with complicated mental health challenges.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 12, 2021

Here, four C-suite executives and an innovation VP share lessons they've learned on such strategic imperatives as organizational evolution, good governance, virtual care, system localization, cloud infrastructure and underserved communities – and describe how they plan to put them into practice in the year ahead.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 29, 2024

THE PROBLEM "Many of these challenges were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting us to seek new ways to provide additional resources and support to our patient care staff," said Cole Rogers, RN, nurse manager at St. Luke's. Luke's. " Cole Rogers, RN, St. After a competitive review of vendors, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

Yale New Haven Health in Connecticut is a five-hospital, seven-campus health system that includes a large physician practice, numerous ambulatory centers and a home care agency. The health system has developed tele-stroke, tele-ICU and on-demand video visit programs. The crisis sets in. "The northeast U.S. PPE was in short supply.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 30, 2020

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Some vendors are even giving away products and services free.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

Patient generated data can be a key factor in reducing health inequity. Healthcare worker training org aims to root out bias in care. New lawsuit filed to challenge law criminalizing transgender medical care. Staffing shortage forces Alaska hospital to halt inpatient care. HHS is giving $226.5 payment increase in 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The breadth of connectivity, the exchange of data, and the benefit of both feels significantly different depending on where you sit inside the healthcare ecosystem. We are confident that this disparity in coverage will change quickly as QHIN’s, their participants and sub-participants see the benefits of nationwide coverage.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Mental Health, Virtual Care and the Healthcare System. According to McKinsey, “the cost to treat the diabetes of a patient with depression is, on average, almost $20,000 higher than for a patient without depression, due to factors such as medical complications, reduced access to preventive care, and challenges with illness self-management.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers. Now more than ever before, patients are interested in being active participants in their care, selecting the right health partner, and connecting with their providers.

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

Luke’s opens Denver cancer center Colorado lawmakers are targeting hospital facility fees. Here’s why that’s a big deal.

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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Not only is it easily understood–the value in using digital tools to communicate with a care professional remotely instead of battling traffic for the privilege of waiting an hour only to be told to rest and increase fluid intake isn’t lost on many–versions of telemedicine are actually available and used by patients today.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 16, 2023

While some people are firm believers in the benefits of AI in healthcare, others have concerns about the ethics of AI in healthcare, while a third group approach the topic with a degree of apprehension attributable to a lack of knowledge. For example: Most people have played a video game against an AI-driven computer.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

APRIL 14, 2023

This funding intends to support existing multidisciplinary Long COVID clinics to develop and implement new or improved care delivery models, provide services to more people with Long COVID, and support primary care practices to provide Long COVID education and management of patients in communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

But telehealth technologies do have certain limitations when it comes to treating patients during a pandemic. Critically, hospitals are quickly adopting telehealth to treat quarantined patients infected with COVID-19, he added. " Dedi Gilad, Tyto Care. But hospitals are learning to adapt to telehealth during a pandemic.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 15, 2023

s Vanda Pharmaceuticals pays $100M for commercial rights to Johnson & Johnson company’s drug Hundreds of DC’s Medicaid nursing home patients sent to Maryland Medical facility in DC’s Ward 8 gets $22.5M NATIONAL AHA pushes back on HHS proposal to penalize hospitals for cyberattacks AHA urges Congress to oppose H.R.

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Hall Render

APRIL 14, 2023

NATIONAL 94% of Organizations Experienced a Cyberattack in 2022 AHA blog: Strengthening crisis management in rural health care Biden signs bill ending Covid-19 national emergency Cancer drug shortages are creating dire circumstances for some patients CMS Releases FY24 IPPS Proposed Rule, Seeks to Boost Rates by 2.8%

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 29, 2023

NATIONAL 4 largest healthcare data breaches of 2023 Anesthesia practices sue CMS over reimbursement method Antitrust enforcements hit a high in 2022, with health deals impacted ASCs face leadership exodus CMS floats appeals process over observational stays CMS proposes additional Medicare appeals processes FTC eyes healthcare mergers, report shows (..)

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Hall Render

MARCH 17, 2023

NATIONAL AMA pressures federal government to fix prior authorization problem plaguing radiology AHA pushes back on new 340B alliance Biden’s $6.8T

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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% What are they doing to address it?

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Bill of Health

MARCH 7, 2024

By Vincent Joralemon In my last post , I discussed the rise of psychedelic lobbying — how companies with vested economic interests in psychedelics have applied pressure to shape regulations that favor their business models. And… it worked ! Leveraging Public Opinion to Serve Public Health Again, this is not necessarily problematic !

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Hall Render

MARCH 1, 2024

R1 RCM posts $3.3M in 2023 income Ransomware group leader told hackers to attack hospitals, FBI, HHS say The 23 health systems pushing Congress to act on virtual care Three examples of how AI is going to change medicine U.S. R1 RCM posts $3.3M R1 RCM posts $3.3M R1 RCM posts $3.3M R1 RCM posts $3.3M

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