Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2024

The second version of ONC's Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, is designed to support the data exchange needs of patients, providers, payers and public health agencies.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The French IT company was recently awarded a contract worth A$242 M ($159 million) to continue supporting the digitalisation of the WA public health system for the next five years. It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

A similar bill was introduced in the Senate in October 2019, the Equity and Pretrial Medicaid Coverage Act (S.2628). The MIEP overburdens county and local jails financially and jeopardizes public health. 2628 would support states and counties in delivering quality health care. Legislation like H.R. 3514 and S.2628

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 7, 2019

With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As Why a World Health Day? you may be asking.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 20, 2025

Americans wagered nearly $150 million on sports in 2024, a more than 1,000 percent increase from 2019. Related Articles Addiction Measures for Recreational Marijuana Failed in Three States: a Win for Public Health By The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Addiction TikTok, Tobacco, and Addiction, Oh My! billion in state tax revenue.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2022

Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the covid public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage. State Medicaid agencies for months have been preparing for the end of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2023

The ransomware-as-a-service operation has used multiple tactics to take control of its victims' data and operations since its appearance in 2019. In January, The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said Clop shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Global Health Equity Care.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. The state government has also made a A$150 million ($100 million) investment over four years to upgrade its digital health infrastructure.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2022

BRIMI will work to develop novel AI approaches both to establish health information inequities empirically and create triage guidelines for public health officials and practitioners to reduce them.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Office of Healthcare Transformation decided to support the three home hospitalisation programmes after feasibility studies done by NUHS and Yishun Health Medical Home found the MIC @ Home "effective and safe" for selected patients, particularly those with low to moderate clinical acuity.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

As well as climate change, healthcare is facing the threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which has been dubbed ‘the silent pandemic’ Nancy Jennings, health advisor and AMR lead for the UK Mission to the EU, said that the issues of AMR and climate change were linked and needed to be treated with a similar approach.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics — Banerjee and Duflo (both of MIT) and Kremer (working at Harvard) — were recognized for their work on alleviating global poverty.” The post What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). plan to increase access to healthcare with digital technologies, as stated in the eHealth Strategy by the Ministry of Public Health (2017-2026).

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Bill of Health

JULY 15, 2022

Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities. Am J Public Health. Cancer Therapy Approval Timings, Review Speed, and Publication of Pivotal Registration Trials in the US and Europe, 2010-2019. JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jun 6. Epub ahead of print.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

When several individuals from a common population, like a cruise ship or restaurant , become ill at the same time, it is more likely that a claim will be filed, as the “ cluster of cases may represent a failure to implement basic food safety and public health guidelines ” like requiring employees to wash hands after using the bathroom.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. AARP sponsored the poll. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2025

For example, a 2019 study published in The Lancet Public Health found that patients using medical cannabis reduced their opioid consumption by an average of 64%. What does the research say about cannabis as an opioid alternative?

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 4, 2022

In response to a 2016 USPTO request for public comments , in 2017 several organizations asked Congress to amend the patent laws to overrule Myriad and other recent Supreme Court precedents relating to patent eligibility. The Senate Judiciary Committee held three sets of hearings on the bill in 2019, after which the draft legislation stalled.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

The specialists GlobalData surveyed cited the possibility of future unsupportive policies as a reason for discontinuing telehealth use after the public health crisis. The patient companion app for InTouch Health, for instance, had about 2,300 downloads in 2019, but more than 22,300 in the second quarter of 2020 alone.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Lipitz Center for Integrated Health Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have launched the Coalition for Care Partners to strengthen healthcare's capacity to systematically identify, engage and support care partners effectively through existing patient portals. OpenNotes and The Roger C.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Together, these articles underscore the injustice of the present moment and emphasize the need to reform intellectual property protections for government-funded inventions of public health significance. Recent Research on Public Funding of mRNA Technology The first of the two new articles is an in-depth empirical study of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. An October 2019 CBS News Poll on how Americans feel about U.S.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In 2019, Google showed that artificial intelligence can detect lung cancer more accurately than radiologists with eight years of experience. "COVID-19 showed the world what's wrong: Not enough focus on public health, prevention and equity. "That same year, FDA approved smart pills.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

THE PROBLEM The increasing economic pressures faced by people across all levels of society – combined with other recent public health disruptions, such as the pandemic – have placed a spotlight on the growing crisis. Homelessness is a complex and challenging phenomenon, not just in the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. 31% of workers enrolled in a high-deductible health plan with a savings option, 13% in an HMO, and 8% in a point-of-service plan (POS, a hybrid of an HMO and PPO). and inflation, 2.1%.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

To analyze which physicians made the transition sooner, the researchers used Epic electronic health record data to analyze visits between Oct. 1, 2019, and Dec. The researchers organized physicians into four categories: Innovators (those with virtual visits before March 15, 2020).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 17, 2020

In 2019, the National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers received 4,039 requests, total, from providers looking for technical assistance or for more information about telehealth. Experience the education, innovation and collaboration of the HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition… virtually. HIMSS20 Digital.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

It’s a volume speaking volumes on the current picture of prescribed meds, spending and revenues, health care utilization trends, and a forecast looking out to 2027. health care: “Wake up, public health!” In my read of this year’s review, I see a flashing light for U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 19, 2020

A bipartisan group of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to inventory telehealth programs nationwide and evaluate ways to plan for public health emergencies using virtual care. Tina Smith, D-Minn., " Because of that, Smith said, any work to expand telehealth must consider access for everyone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A JAMIA Open study published in 2019 showed it successfully reaching veterans in rural areas and helping patients with mental health conditions; another, published by Psychiatric Services , found the tablets helped lead to improved clinical efficiency. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The DEA says it is expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency – except for the remote prescription of controlled substances. But, it didn't happen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 22, 2021

At first the biggest impact will be for patients in Delaware, where ChristianaCare is based and where Highmark operates a health plan affiliate. Those organizations began working together 2019, focused on a value-based payment agreement to improve care and wellness for Medicaid patients in the state. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 26, 2023

The CalRx Initiative, which was originally announced in January 2019 and later signed into law as the California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020 , empowers the State of California to develop, produce, and distribute generic drugs and sell them at low cost. State interventions can increase competition and reduce prices.

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