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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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‘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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‘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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Medicare Patients Win the Right to Appeal Gap in Nursing Home Coverage

Kaiser Health News

25 ruling, which came in response to a 2011 class-action lawsuit eventually joined by 14 beneficiaries against the Department of Health and Human Services, will guarantee patients the right to appeal to Medicare for nursing home coverage if they were admitted to a hospital as an inpatient but were switched to observation care, an outpatient service.

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Building a Culture of Patient Safety Starts with Reducing Staff Burnout

AIHC

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there is a 63% increase in the rate of injuries from violent attacks against medical professionals from 2011 to 2018. Is Burnout a Still Problem Now that COVID-19 is Behind Us? The COVID pandemic is a major contributing factor to the overall burnout of health care workers.

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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

States maintain these obligations even when non-State actors are involved in health care financing, provision, and governance, albeit further normative development in this area is still urgently needed.

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Physician venture investor talks telehealth, digital therapeutics, Medicaid tech

Healthcare It News

What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Before COVID-19, a few companies, such as Livongo, made a splash in the digital health community by going public – Livongo in July 2019. Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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