Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

" KHIDI piloted the smart hospital project in 2020. For example, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there was an obvious focus on enabling telemedicine, implementing smart infection control, and ensuring efficient management of hospital resources at a smart hospital.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In 2020, the agency said , about six in 10 individuals throughout the country were offered access to their patient portal, and nearly 40 percent accessed their record at least once. About a third of patient portal users downloaded their online medical record in 2020, nearly double the proportion of 2017. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 21, 2024

THE LARGER CONTEXT Microsoft first announced in 2020 its plan to establish a regional cloud data centre in New Zealand. Its first local partner, IT and hybrid cloud services provider CLC of the Spark Business Group, was revealed in June this year.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 15, 2023

consumers doubled their use of wearables between 2020 and 2021, with smartwatches outpacing other devices.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

By 2020, that number was 50 million. In 2015, OpenNotes had enabled around 5 patients to have full access to their clinical notes via secure electronic portals. In the years since, as hundreds of other health systems signed on with the patient empowerment movement , that number has grown enormously.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. Then, in April 2020, a group of large technology firms and national laboratories joined the Open COVID Pledge , a platform that enabled the large-scale pledging of patents to the pandemic response.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Thirty-two percent of people appointed to positions at the HHS between 2004 and 2020 exited to the private sector, raising concerns about objectivity, according to new research.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

million to TeamHealth after finding UnitedHealthcare underpaid the physician group’s clinicians from 2017 to 2020. A three-judge arbitration panel in Florida has awarded $10.8

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OCTOBER 31, 2022

healthcare lobbying expenditures totaled almost $714 million in 2020, compared to $358 million in 2000, according to new research.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Private insurers' payments for those trips increased 56% between 2017 and 2020, Fair Health found. More ambulance trips are billing for "advanced life support," denoting a higher level of care (and reimbursement).

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Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 26, 2023

Health plans earned a lower average rating in the Leapfrog Group’s latest rankings than in previous years, earning a 2.29 GPA in 2022 compared to a 2.57

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JUNE 28, 2024

The telehealth vendor’s stock price has declined significantly since 2020. It received a warning this spring that its stock was trading below minimum standards, and could be removed from trading.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

On March 17, 2020, Dr. Zubin Damania – a physician, comedian, and internet personality known as ZDoggMD to his fans in the “ZPAC Supporter Tribe” 2 – recorded a podcast titled “COVID-19: Is Our Cure Worse Than the Disease?” 2020, March 17). 2020, October 11). This message was repeated regularly throughout the pandemic.

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Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 15, 2022

Jason Hollar, who joined Cardinal as CFO in 2020, will lead the healthcare distributor starting in September.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Healthcare added 64,000 jobs last month, though employment in the sector is still down by about 306,000 jobs, or 1.9%, since February 2020.

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APRIL 20, 2022

The heightened racial unrest of 2020 revealed unmet needs and windows of opportunity to challenge structural racism.

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JULY 28, 2022

That's up more than 40% since the 2020 report by Ponemon and IBM Security. The cost of the average breach for healthcare increased by $1 million to $10.1

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The survey from the Commonwealth Fund comes after regulators finalizing a rule this spring that aims to cut back on deceptive or misleading advertising for MA plans after beneficiary complaints more than doubled between 2020 and 2021.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 17, 2024

Through volunteer work after the 2020 Beirut explosion, Marina El Khawand, founder and president of Medonations, describes how getting a patient in dire need of her inhaler evolved into starting an NGO that crowdsources medications for Lebanese patients.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The attack against the University of Vermont Medical Center in 2020 cost the hospital millions of dollars and limited operations for weeks.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. During the pandemic, somewhere around in the second quarter of 2020, this number actually even went up to about 25% of the appointments.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Between March 2020 and this June, the average total messages per day increased from 45.0 "Consistent with national trends, during 2020 COVID months, monthly in-person visits decreased for all specialties … whereas telehealth visits increased," noted the researchers. for primary care physicians, from 29.3

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 1, 2023

After declining briefly in 2020, family healthcare costs are rising as the industry faces an uncertain macroeconomic environment.

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MARCH 29, 2022

growth rate in 2020. According to new numbers from the CMS, national health spending grew 4.2% last year to almost $4.3 trillion, a significant slowdown from the 9.7%

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

According to the CDC, immunization rates declined across the board beginning in March 2020, but the most significant drop was among children who receive vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 27, 2024

In the new data brief , ASTP/ONC officials said that 80% of those with a recent cancer diagnosis were offered access to their online medical records between 2020 and 2022, representing a 38% increase over those newly diagnosed and offered electronic health record (EHR) access from 2017-2018.

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JULY 25, 2023

Healthcare continues to be the most expensive industry for data breaches, with costs increasing 53% since 2020.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 16, 2021

In 2020 alone, urgent care clinics saw a 58% increase in visit volumes due to the demand for COVID-19-related episodic care, with testing and vaccinations accounting for more than 60% of total visits, according to the latest research from urgent care software company Experity, which surveyed half of U.S. During the pandemic, the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

How digital underpins preventative care collaborations The 600-bed hospital in the state of Penang is already a fully EMR-integrated facility since 2020.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Annual R&D costs were the highest since Amwell went public in 2020, but costs are expected to decline this year, according to company leadership.

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MARCH 17, 2022

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2021

At the onset of the pandemic, the organization was losing dozens of clients per week, resulting in a 50% decrease in the number of clients served in the first three quarters of 2020. 1, 2020, to June 30, 2020," Brooks reported.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 18, 2021

On December 14, 2020, less than one year after COVID-19 sent our nation into lockdown and a period of uncertainty, the U.S. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Paul Brient, chief product officer, athenahealth. began rolling out a new set […].

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Wood served as a Visiting Researcher with the Petrie-Flom Center from 2020 through 2024. It is up to all of us, especially those in positions of influence, to prevent further devastation to our health care system. Our communities deserve better.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In another action, the Rainrock Treatment Center, located in Eugene, Oregon, paid OCR $160,000 after a patient said it had sent their records on May 22, 2020 – almost eight months following the initial request. The provider was fined $32,150. Still, patients are sometimes driven to bring their own legal actions. ON THE RECORD.

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