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American Hospital Association Urges DEA to Issue Special Registration for Telemedicine Controlled Substances

Healthcare Law Today

The American Hospital Association (AHA), on behalf of its nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems, sent a letter urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to take immediate action to allow telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances before the Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers expire. Want to Learn More?

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. A telephone survey of patient satisfaction with realtime telemedicine in a rural community in Colombia. Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare. Telemedicine: opportunities and developments in Member States: report on the second global survey on eHealth. References. Smith et al.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

In February 2009, President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), less formally known as the Stimulus Bill. The policy’s acronym fully spelled-out was the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009. trillion in 2009 when HITECH was signed into law to $3.7

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The Health Insurance Premium for a Family Averages $25,572 in 2024 – KFF’s Annual Update on Employer-Sponsored Benefits

Health Populi

Putting the microscope on increases in premiums, worker contributions, workers’ earnings (the paycheck), and overall inflation, shows variability depending on the era we’re looking at, Figure B illustrates these trends by four time periods: 2004-2009 (the latter years of which marked the Great Recession); 2009-2014, which experienced the (..)

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FTC Issues First Financial Penalty for a Health Breach Notification Rule Violation

HIPAA Journal

The rule took effect in 2009, yet compliance has not been enforced. GoodRx is a Santa Monica, CA-based provider of a telemedicine platform that includes a free-to-use website and mobile app that consumers can use to track prescription drug prices and obtain coupons that provide discounts on medications. That has now changed.

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The Cost to Cover Health Insurance for a Family in America Is $22,221

Health Populi

Over a few years leading up to the COVID-19 emergence in early 2020, large employers had begun to adopt telemedicine in health plan benefits for workers, noted by the Business Group on Health’s membership surveys. KFF quantified firms offering telemedicine benefits, shown in Figure H here from the report.

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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics

HIPAA Journal

The HIPAA Journal has compiled healthcare data breach statistics from October 2009, when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) started publishing summaries of healthcare data breaches on its website. This page is regularly updated to reflect the latest healthcare data breach statistics.

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