Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. The survey consisted of one question: Considering the current COVID-19 pandemic, would you prefer a virtual visit (video or phone) or an in-person/in-clinic visit?

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Health Populi

JULY 22, 2021

In the Age of COVID, over 90,000 new health apps were released, as the supply of digital therapeutics and wearables grew in 2020. Evidence supporting the use of digital health tools if growing, tracked in Digital Health Trends 2021: Innovation, Evidence, Regulation, and Adoption from IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

These learnings are especially, crucially important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. which has revealed America’s digital divide that has worsened health, social, and economic impacts for people lacking digital inclusion addressing connectivity, literacy, and trust. There are many lessons the U.S.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 3, 2025

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents. Enhance the health care experience.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. Hatem Zeine, Founder, President and CTO of Ossia.

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 1, 2022

Note that this does not reflect prescription drug rebates, which made up about 26% of drug claims in 2021, Milliman noted, more than doubling from 2013). For my previous write-ups of the MMI, here are some links to check out… MMI 2021 The Cost of Health Care for a Family of 4 in America Will Reach $28,256 in 2021.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. Yes, to health care access (especially primary care). Yes, to healthy food.

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AIHC

JANUARY 28, 2022

This estimate of total uncompensated care payments reflects CMS Office of the Actuary’s projections that incorporate the estimated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this rule, CMS will distribute roughly $8.3 billion in uncompensated care payments for FY 2021, a decrease of approximately $60 million from FY 2020.

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 5, 2023

These focus on the cost of drugs at-launch; the continued challenge of diversity and inclusion in trials, access, and outcomes; and, the disruption of cancer diagnostic testing during COVID-19 which finds some patients diagnosed later and with more advanced conditions. mortality rate.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In at least two major incidents in the last two decades, the United Nations has been responsible for major public health crises, and victims of the crises have found themselves with no recourse in any court system. One case in which the UN caused public health harms is relatively well-known.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. Youth in the foster care system and those who are justice-involved face additional challenges during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. From the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2013, the issue of burnout was called out on the cover of the report, shown here with the question, “does burnout affect lifestyle?” ” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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Exeed Regulatory Compliance

JULY 31, 2020

How Emergency Use Authorization of Medical Products Helps Provide Relief During a COVID-19 Major Crisis. The current COVID-19 global pandemic continues to remain out of control. It is a public health emergency of massive scale that has affected nearly all aspects of our life.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 28, 2023

But mortality isn’t only going in the wrong direction for those people most closely associated with the Deaths of Despair demographic: there’s another life-span line graph moving in the wrong direction, and it’s for young Americans under 19 years of age. Subtitled “the sad state of U.S. featured in their essay.

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has also affected Medicaid postpartum coverage. The Families First Coronavirus Recovery Act, passed on March 18, 2020, includes increased federal funding for state Medicaid agencies to provide care during the national public health emergency. 31, 2022). [2] 2] Emily E. Peterson, et. 3] Madeline Y.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

Experience with large-scale events such as Hurricane Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recent geopolitical events, have cast a wider lens on global supply chain and distribution vulnerabilities. TR 43 was originally published in 2007 and revised in 2013 to address industry feedback.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

Experience with large-scale events such as Hurricane Maria and the COVID-19 pandemic, and more recent geopolitical events, have cast a wider lens on global supply chain and distribution vulnerabilities. TR 43 was originally published in 2007 and revised in 2013 to address industry feedback.

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Compliancy Group

DECEMBER 21, 2022

government was engaged in a war of its own, fighting COVID-19 (or trying to, anyways, depending on who you ask). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal agency designed to enhance the well-being of Americans, spent much time and resources navigating this public health crisis. .

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In addition to fielding scrutiny over mifepristone access , reviewing opioid regulations , and handling COVID-19 vaccine and treatment approvals in the midst of a pandemic, Califf will be overseeing the FDA at a time when public health advocates are anticipating agency action on several tobacco issues.

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SQA

AUGUST 2, 2021

ISO/TS 22421 was developed by technical committee ISO/TC 198, Sterilization of Health Care Products, whose secretariat is held by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), ISO’s member for the USA. COVID-19 Response: Freely Available ISO Standards, 18 June 2021. ISO 13688:2013, Protective clothing – General requirements.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. Effective October 19, 2021. 19; repealed N.J.A.C.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Care Taps Health Net Exec as New CEO COLORADO Aurora’s Fitzsimons plans development opportunities on 60 acres Boulder drug discovery co. Former Montana health staffer rebukes oversight rules as a hospital wish list How this Montana hospital went from a 2.5% operating margin in Q3 JLL Arranges $13.4M 3 in the U.S. News 3rd Circ.

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

Amazon to buy primary health-care provider One Medical for roughly $3.9 Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US. Legal confusion post-Roe is threatening maternal health, physicians say. Health systems eye perks of M&A post-COVID shock. CMS proposes 2.7% HHS orders additional 2.5

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The last update to the HIPAA Rules was the HIPAA Omnibus Rule in 2013, which introduced new requirements mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. The incidents occurred in 2012 and 2013 and involved the theft of an unencrypted laptop computer and two flash drives.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law in 1996 and while there have been some significant HIPAA updates over the last two decades, the last set of major HIPAA updates occurred in 2013 with the introduction of the HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In addition, the decision affirmed the dismissal of a case against FDA over orders related to pediatric authorizations for two COVID vaccines. Note that we wrote this before Elmo became a mental health advocate of sorts; that does not change our view of the character’s comedic abilities.) Hippo ) was not mentioned in CHD. Was it safe?

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The G/N MDL was created in 2013 and mostly settled in 2016. But it pales in comparison to express preemption under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (“PREP”) Act, which was designed to protect from litigation everyone involved in responding to a formally declared public health emergency. 19) Klinker v.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 11, 2023

Its staff has a broad view tied to public health considerations, available drug and non-drug treatment options, data that may not be publically available, and decades of experience with the subject matter. Brief at 19-20 (quoting Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs v. This also includes “ology” confusion. Sebelius , 671 F.3d

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