Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2024

billion in annual operating revenue, Memorial Healthcare System is one of the largest public health systems in the U.S. With the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Memorial launched telehealth for all its primary care and specialty centers, and today conducts about 100,000 virtual visits per year.

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In addition, sections 1819(d)(4)(B) and 1919(d)(4)(B) of the Act explicitly authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services (“HHS Secretary”) to issue any regulations he deems necessary to protect the health and safety of residents. Due to the nature of interim final rules, this requirement would have expired in May 2023.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 11, 2020

This week, I’m sharing all the letters of the alphabet with you which reminded me keywords and themes emerging as we were learning about this dastardly public health threat beginning early in 2020. K is for Kirkland, Washington state. In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 13, 2025

Heidi Steinecker, Principal Health and Human Services Consultant at Resultant From April to August 2020, 45% of U.S. This stark disparity revealed that nursing homes were particularly vulnerable during the pandemic, with high transmission and fatality rates in these congregate settings.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

As described in the latest ONC Standards Bulletin , v3 expands the USCDI from 52 data elements in 16 classes to 94 elements in 19 classes, with additions focusing on equity, public health, and documenting health insurance coverage.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

USP <800> and Other Hazardous Pharmaceuticals Standards and Regulations: Update 2020. Another concern involved caregivers in a nursing home that needed to crush up an HD to mix it into a resident’s food or liquid to assist with swallowing the HD. Read the full article.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 27, 2020

USP <800> and Other Hazardous Pharmaceuticals Standards and Regulations: Update 2020. Another concern involved caregivers in a nursing home that needed to crush up an HD to mix it into a resident’s food or liquid to assist with swallowing the HD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. For example, nursing homes were hit hard by the virus.

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SQA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Resolution RDC 702/2022 became effective on 22 May 2022 and repeals the following: RDC 349/2020: the temporary criteria and procedures for regularization of personal protective equipment (PPE), ventilators and other medical devices ANVISA identified as critical to the PHE. The draft was already published for comments in March 2020.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. A provider present with the patient at one location – a nursing home, community clinic, etc. It is being updated regularly with more vendors. The system can be used to conduct telehealth visits between two or more clinics.

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Hall Render

MAY 11, 2023

As skilled nursing facilities work and provide health care services after the May 11, 2023, end of the Public Health Emergency, questions and concerns about visitation at these facilities will likely continue to arise.

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Most healthcare services involve some sort of care by nurses including private practices, primary care clinics, home health, nursing homes, hospices, and more. Read on to learn more about nursing license verification in an ongoing pandemic and public health emergency. workforce as a whole.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. Today, nearly 48 million people provided unpaid care for adults in 2020, up 16.6%

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

CMS also provides independent oversight of labs’, providers’, and facilities’ compliance with “Medicare health and safety standards.”. Compare, for example, federal treatment of nursing homes with prisons.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

AHA asks HHS to continue the public health emergency until conditions stabilize. Considerations for Social Determinants of Health Screening Design. COVID-19 public health emergency set to be extended. Covid-19 remains a public health emergency in US, administration says. Arkansas Gets $3.9M

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The pandemic prison has utilized several of the worst features of incarceration as a foundational part of how the institution governs “public health” for its captives. Abolitionists and other critics of mass incarceration joined incarcerated people in proclaiming that prison ran counter to public health. By Dan Berger.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The GCPG standardized the seven Elements of a Successful Compliance Program, which differs slightly from the individual compliance guidance documents (CPGs) directed at various segments of the health care industry, such as hospitals, nursing homes, third-party billers, and durable medical equipment suppliers.

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Hall Render

MARCH 28, 2023

On January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced the COVID public health emergency (“PHE”) will expire and end on May 11, 2023. CMS has allowed states and nursing homes to suspend these assessments for new residents for thirty days. Expedited Enrollment. Alcohol-Based Hand-Rub (“ABHR”) Dispensers.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 7, 2022

These “work and services” include, in relevant part: Removing debris; Providing temporary facilities for essential community services; Demolishing unsafe structures that endanger the public; and. Reducing immediate threats to life, property and public health and safety. iii] 42 U.S.C. iv] 42 U.S.C. v] 2 CFR § 200.318. [vi]

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

nursing home advocate: industry in ‘death spiral’ from lack of health care providers, low pay Georgia medical center named one of the ‘most beautiful hospitals in the U.S.’

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Hall Render

AUGUST 19, 2022

CDC, amid criticism for COVID-19 response, plans reorganization as public health threats grow. Joint Commission’s New Accreditation Standards Tackle Health Disparities. Nursing homes and long-term care facilities face increased turnover, look to new solution to attract workers. UC San Diego Health names new CIO.

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

AZDHS not protecting nursing home residents by reviewing complaints. Health care company expects to earn nearly $10 million in annual profits from AZ prisons contract. Arizona Becomes 3rd State to Provide In-Home Care for Sick Children. Pritzker signs nursing home reform legislation.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 26, 2022

Amazon competes with CVS Health, others in bid for Signify Health. Amazon to shutter virtual health care service Amazon Care. CMS bulletin presses states on Medicaid nursing home spending. CMS informational bulletin urges steps for improving health outcomes in nursing homes. in net income.

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Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

NATIONAL 9 health systems working with Amazon, Microsoft, Apple 293 hospitals at immediate risk of closure AHA chair-elect participates in CEO roundtable on rural health care crisis AHA report demonstrates benefits of 340B program AHA Urges OCR to Suspend or Amend Online Tracking Guidance AMA and others launch collective call for health equity in Rise (..)

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Vincent, Indianapolis Colts announce new partnership Franciscan Health launches 24/7 ambulance to help patients in rural counties Lilly to make $1.8B Federal Grant to Study Eye Disease UAMS Study to Address Maternal, Infant Deaths with $2.4M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

health care startup Ounce raises $5.2M to broaden services for low-income households Team From George Washington University Wins Grand Prize in 2023 D.C. Luke’s receives $1.5 Dominic Louisiana physician charged in $5.6M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Alejandro Quiroga as president and CEO Kansas audit sounds alarm on security flaws at Osawatomie State Hospital NRH noted by COMPASS for commitments to patient safety, healthcare quality KENTUCKY Baptist Health Paducah top 10 in U.S. presence Beth Israel Lahey Health reports $249M operating loss, -2.8% operating loss, -10.2%

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act becomes law. Here are the top health systems by patient reviews. Hospital stays for nursing home residents down nearly 9%, federal data shows. 12 million dollar drug lab, mental health center coming to Dothan. Huntsville Hospital to launch new nurse training program.

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Hall Render

APRIL 1, 2022

Hospital, long-term care groups again petition Becerra to extend COVID-19 public health emergency. Nursing Home Operating Expenses Could Balloon by $500K With Staffing Minimums in Place. Parkinson warns of new ‘enormous’ business problem for nursing homes; highlights staffing-minimum alternative. CALIFORNIA.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 16, 2024

Luke’s Behavioral Health ARKANSAS LaDonna Johnston Named CEO of Unity Health Update: Hearing to Approve Sale of Wadley Regional Medical Center Rescheduled How Arkansas Children’s is diversifying its workforce Sale hearing for Steward Health, Debtors’ Hospitals in Louisiana and Arkansas moved to Aug.

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Hall Render

AUGUST 16, 2024

Luke’s Behavioral Health ARKANSAS LaDonna Johnston Named CEO of Unity Health Update: Hearing to Approve Sale of Wadley Regional Medical Center Rescheduled How Arkansas Children’s is diversifying its workforce Sale hearing for Steward Health, Debtors’ Hospitals in Louisiana and Arkansas moved to Aug.

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Hall Render

MARCH 1, 2024

in 2023 income Ransomware group leader told hackers to attack hospitals, FBI, HHS say The 23 health systems pushing Congress to act on virtual care Three examples of how AI is going to change medicine U.S. Reeves doesn’t mention Medicaid expansion or health care crisis in State of the State address U.S. R1 RCM posts $3.3M

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Hall Render

JULY 1, 2022

How hospitals should prepare for the end of the public health emergency. Governor Carney Formally Extends Public Health Emergency. Report shows Kentucky had second highest increase in deaths from alcohol, drugs and suicide in 2020. Singing River Health System names first-ever woman CEO. Wade patient privacy.

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Hall Render

MARCH 9, 2023

in federal funds will allow CT colleges to hire more nursing instructors, provide student tuition support Connecticut hospital expenses $3.5B Billion in Unpaid Care to Loved Ones Proposed bill aims to address ‘truth in advertising’ by Connecticut health care providers Shuttered nursing home in Wallingford sells for $1.6M

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