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Australia ends support for 128 telehealth items

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The 2002 telepsychiatry items will be replaced by video telehealth items introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, while inpatient telehealth items introduced in September 2021 will no longer be available. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well.

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Physician Burnout Rates Moderate But Remain High, AMA Calls for Continued Action

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Image by wavebreakmedia_micro on Freepik What You Should Know: – A recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings indicates that occupational burnout rates among physicians in the United States are decreasing after reaching a peak in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. physicians was 45.2%. The burnout rate peaked at 62.8%

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‘Care Anywhere’ is the new normal, according to industry report

Healthcare It News

Another result concerns innovation through ‘femtech’: digital technologies and applications related to women’s health are increasingly gaining importance – more so as this has been a gap in care in the US with only three per cent of all health deals since 2011 focusing on this area.

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Physician burnout is at an all-time high, says AMA

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. By the end of 2021, some 21 months later, the physician burnout rate rose to an unprecedented high. WHY IT MATTERS.

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‘Care Anywhere’ is the new normal, according to new industry report

Healthcare It News

Another result concerns innovation through ‘femtech’: digital technologies and applications related to women’s health are increasingly gaining importance – more so as this has been a gap in care in the US with only three per cent of all health deals since 2011 focusing on this area.

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#LoveThyNeighbor – A Faith-Based Call for Vaccination

Health Populi

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. who have been anti-vaccine in the COVID era. Sister Mary is CEO and President of CHA.

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Author Q&A: Hilary Wething on US Paid Sick Leave Policy Impacts

Bill of Health

Your research looks specifically at laws from 2011-2019 with an analysis of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted these laws. What major changes, if any, did you see in the policies because of COVID-19? HW: Surprisingly, there weren’t many changes to paid sick leave laws in response to COVID-19.

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