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Arkos Health, created by merger of 3 companies, sets sights on senior-focused telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Las Vegas-based CarePointe and Tempe, Arizona-based USHS, founded in 2015 and 2018, respectively, bring data-driven care-coordination tools to the table, which help value-based organizations lower costs and boost quality. Actionable Intelligence. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Jury Returns Verdict for EEOC in Disability Case against Tennessee Nursing Home

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After a three-and-a-half-day trial, a jury returned a verdict for the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on behalf of a former employee of a Tennessee nursing home who had been fired after requesting intermittent leave to address her anxiety. She successfully performed her job, and the facility never disciplined her.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

During the early days of COVID-19, CSS took a tremendous burden off local health departments that needed to do contract tracing. In recent years, some states leveraged the power of HIEs to identify COVID-19 hotspots in communities. Getting started is as simple as establishing an account and logging on. .

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Why Family Caregivers Need Help from the Healthcare Establishment

HIT Consultant

Consider that more seniors are aging at home or in their family members’ homes during the pandemic, especially as COVID-19 deaths in senior living facilities began to climb and facilities tightened visitor restrictions to avoid the spread of infection. since 2015, according to a recent report.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2022 – June

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ANVISA published the RDC 702/2022, which repeals some requirements that were instituted to speed market approval of devices needed to treat patients during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Agency recently published the first list of critical medicines for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. 27 May 2022.

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Here are the major issues facing healthcare in 2021, according to PwC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The insights also can help healthcare organizations navigate vaccine distribution, as well as the ebbs and flows of patient volumes due to COVID-19 in the year ahead, according to the new report. The COVID-19 pandemic placed some companies in a position to invest and evolve, and others needing to partner to survive, HRI observed.

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Health Provider News

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Tulane’s new nursing school hopes to help bolster the ranks. bill would allow IVF therapy for same-sex veteran marriages; VA denies coverage Cancer-killing gel, minimally-invasive brain shunts: Here are recent startups spun out of area hospitals UMass Memorial named one of top U.S. system turns profit for 1st time in 4 years Mass.