Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The NHS COVID Pass is now accepted as equivalent in status to the European Union Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC). The EUDCC, which covers COVID-19 vaccination, test and recovery, aims to facilitate safe travel for citizens in Europe. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Nevertheless, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major panic in the country’s legal system and judiciary. Additionally, the Government declared COVID-19 a “ formidable disease ” under the Public Health Act on April 1, 2020.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 18, 2022

What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Before COVID-19, a few companies, such as Livongo, made a splash in the digital health community by going public – Livongo in July 2019. billion in 2021, according to Rock Health. billion that year to $5.1

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 31, 2020

"One of the lessons of COVID-19 – meaningful data sharing – will continue unabated, made even more valuable as data becomes more accessible and machine learning provides deeper insights," said Michael Byczkowski, global VP and head of healthcare industry at SAP, the developer of enterprise application software.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This is according to a new annual report from research and consulting giant PwC entitled “Top health industry issues of 2021: Will a shocked system emerge stronger?” Healthcare right-sizes after the telemedicine explosion. " Payers may wrestle with how to reimburse and, in some cases, provide virtual care.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

More residential aged care residents in Western Sydney can now access an IT-enabled urgent care service by the New South Wales government following its expansion. THE LARGER CONTEXT The Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) first introduced the inTouch service in 2021 to provide at-home care for over 45,000 COVID-19 patients.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

Crucially, the crisis of sleep deprivation among incarcerated populations is not wholly divorced from the present COVID-19 threat facing correctional systems. Cases and deaths due to COVID-19 remain “consistently higher” in correctional settings than the general U.S. Jolin is an A.B.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 30, 2022

In August 2021 , the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) put in place requirements for service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Navy lawsuit is one of several ongoing legal challenges to the military branches’ policies on religious exemptions to the DoD COVID-19 vaccine mandate. On March 25, the U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. Between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, at least 185 of such laws have been enacted. But COVID has underscored that laws alone are insufficient.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Australian government has set aside A$106 million ($76 million) over four years to support what it calls "permanent" telehealth, which will ensure flexibility in healthcare delivery and continuous health consultations via phone or online. WHY IT MATTERS. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. million ($22.8

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In 2019, China announced a new law prohibiting Chinese organizations from sharing genetic data with foreign groups without government approval. Government officials recently have expressed concern about the open-access sharing of U.K. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has also chimed in on the flow of U.S.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

During the third DHAGE 2021 high-level meeting, held last month, decision makers in Europe identified collaborations and challenges for the future of digital healthcare policies - when accounting for the health inequailities that have been highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. And we did see an increase again around early 2021, at the time of the Delta variant. CareCloud CEO and President A.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In the pre-COVID era, I answered this question affirmatively. Thus, even before special COVID-19 emergency declarations and legislation, I argued that federal agencies already had the authority to regulate these risks by requiring passengers to be vaccinated. By Christopher Robertson. As a Southwest flight attendant, Ms.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

are thinking and feeling about life after COVID-19 — and especially where their trust lies in institutions, fellow citizens, and future public health emergencies. COVID also eroded peoples’ trust in media. said that due to the COVID pandemic, people in America are less likely to trust and abide by science.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

The 2002 telepsychiatry items will be replaced by video telehealth items introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, while inpatient telehealth items introduced in September 2021 will no longer be available. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 20, 2022

Among the many failures to mitigate the harm from COVID-19 in the U.S. In Macromedical Regulation , 82 Ohio State Law Journal 727 (2021), we address the nation’s systemic failure to contain an infectious contagion, and we offer solutions by deriving lessons from the 2008 financial contagion. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 22, 2022

A new report from Comcast Business indicates 2021 was another record-breaking year for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. million DDoS attacks were reported in 2021, which is a 14% increase from 2019, although slightly lower than the previous year when 10.1 Multi-vector attacks increased by 47% in 2021.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

senators has reintroduced the Creating Opportunities Now for Necessary and Effective Care Technologies (CONNECT) for Health Act of 2021. The act would expand coverage of Medicare telehealth services and make some COVID-19 telehealth flexibilities permanent, among other provisions. A bipartisan group comprising half of U.S.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

First announced in January 2021, the Vaccine Credential Initiative – co-founded by MITRE Corporation and others including Cerner, Change Healthcare, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and others – has made big progress over the past year-plus on new approaches to interoperable record-keeping.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By December 2020, the world had astonishingly powerful tools against COVID-19. At the end of 2021, Thomas Cueni, the head of an international pharmaceutical trade association, acknowledged that everyone was “ashamed and embarrassed” by the inequity. “We Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. The new BCG Digital Ventures report is the second after its initial launch in 2021. "As of January 2021, US adults had reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder that showed a four-fold increase from 2019.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

health system stretched thin by wave after wave of COVID-19 variants, that hope may be hard to come by. "While 2021 was the year of adopting and adapting to newly automated processes and practices, 2022 will be the year to dramatically improve the patient, provider and workforce experience," said Thomas.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified this legal challenge and highlighted the need to treat liability as a key legal preparedness issue. Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Conclusion.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Looking back at 2021, the report notes a high demand for virtual mental health consultations. The new BCG Digital Ventures report is the second after its initial launch in 2021. "As of January 2021, US adults had reported symptoms of anxiety and/or depressive disorder that showed a four-fold increase from 2019.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network compared patient messaging among ambulatory physicians before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, finding they were mostly documenting visits and not messaging patients. hours in September 2021, according to the study.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The moves represented major progress for the multibillion-dollar Electronic Health Record Modernization project, which had faced numerous delays due to COVID-19 and other factors. In March 2021, Rep. "Under my direction, VA is refining EHR governance and management structures to establish additional rigor and oversight.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

HIMSS this week has unveiled the list of the first recipients of its 2021 HIMSS Changemaker Awards. She led the development of the Map it, Zap it coronavirus symptom tracker, adopted by nearly 100,000 community users, and helped develop GuideSafe, which enabled delivery of ongoing COVID-19 symptom monitoring across Alabama.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

"The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically transformed the healthcare delivery landscape and fundamentally shifted the ways in which patients access healthcare," wrote researchers. A RAND study from March 2021 found that overall, pandemic-era telehealth grew most in wealthy and metro areas. ON THE RECORD. Twitter: @kjercich.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The COVID-19 vaccination statuses of approximately 500,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees have been impermissibly disclosed. The spreadsheet also included details of claimed religious and medical exceptions to COVID-19 vaccination. The VA concluded that there was a low risk of misuse of that information.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Australian National Audit Office has conducted a review of the expansion of telehealth services across the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. FINDINGS Based on the state audit , the department fell short in governance, risk management, and evaluation of the telehealth expansion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2020 and 2021 saw the mainstreaming of telehealth and the rise of remote patient monitoring. These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government.

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Bill of Health

MAY 25, 2022

public school students during the COVID-19 pandemic ends on June 30 , the consequences of unpaid school meal debt will resurface for the millions of students nationwide facing food insecurity. Fewer than half of all states — only 19 as of April 2021 — regulate how schools may address unpaid meal charges, according to the data.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 13, 2022

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators in almost every state have introduced bills that would limit state executive authority to respond to the current pandemic or future public health emergencies. Between January 1, 2021, and November 5, 2021, one or more of these bills were enacted into law and became effective in 19 states.

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KFF

JULY 27, 2022

This report tracks funding levels of the donor governments that collectively provide the bulk of international assistance for AIDS through bilateral programs and contributions to multilateral organizations. Donor governments disbursed US$7.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services, said Bordenick, have allowed individuals suffering from COVID symptoms to get virtual treatment. But the waivers have fulfilled another important function: "It's allowed individuals to manage their non-COVID treatment," such as cancer treatment, mental health care and diabetes management.

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