Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When news broke last week that Pfizer-BioNTech was submitting for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) a two-dose COVID vaccine regimen for children under 5 to the U.S. Up until a few days before, the public was expecting approval to possibly drag into summer. million children have tested positive for COVID since the pandemic, over 3.5

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 25, 2020

Social distancing is a key factor in reducing the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, and tele-visits can be a safe and secure means for providers to deliver certain types of care for their patients. The area continues to face an increase in severe COVID-19 cases that require hospitalization – overwhelming many hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

Northern Health is expanding the access to its virtual emergency department service to people living in residential aged care facilities and COVID-19 patients being treated at home via the COVID-19 Positive Pathway Program. This week, COVID-19 cases in Victoria went above 10,000 with nearly 900 people hospitalised.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

NYU’s Langone hospital system decided that — outside of the Emergency Room — patients would generally only be required to mask “if they have fever and cough” (query what percentage of individuals with recent COVID-19 infections did not have this specific combo of symptoms — spoiler: it’s probably high ). As the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. Accessible through a government website, the service is intended for asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 patients under self-isolation. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I covered the event here in Health Populi, as I have for most of the past decade, highlighting the growth of digital health and, this year, the expanding Internet of Healthy Things called-out by Dr. Joseph Kvedar in 2015. CTA conducted a survey among 2,000 U.S. adults ages 18 and over in the second half of July 2020.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has re-shaped consumers for work, school, fitness, cooking, and certainly for health care. Younger Americans prefer retail health settings for vaccines: retail clinics, urgent care sites, or retail pharmacies. preferring the medical office.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

“When people think of AI in healthcare, they imagine a robot replacing the doctor,” said Neinstein. ” Enterprise Taxonomy: Operations Population and Public Health Workflow Digital Health Workforce Development Business Care Process Technology Workforce. Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed:

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Quality Care AI Digital Health Care Analytics Technology.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2021

And last year, a COVID-19 vaccine was researched, developed and deployed almost four years ahead of the normal timeline for a new vaccine." That noise she referred to as having to know when your last colonoscopy was instead of your doctor having that at their fingertips. That's what we have to take to zero.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2020

South Korea has been lauded as a role model in its containment and flattening the curve of COVID-19 infections through a combination of rapid intervention, extensive testing for the virus, contact tracing/surveillance and enlisting the public’s health, according to a report by The New York Times. Challenges. (1)

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Let’s travel to Shanghai, China where, “the covid-19 epidemic has brought millions of new patients online. A couple of intriguing examples: Ali Health, part of Alibaba (the e-commerce giant), launched a free online clinic in locked-down Hubei (whose capital is Wuhan) where in five days, 100,000 patients received remote consultations.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Goulburn Valley Health, a regional healthcare provider in the state of Victoria, has tapped telemedicine service My Emergency Doctor for additional virtual emergency doctor support. Established in 2016, My Emergency Doctor has been providing acute care after hours via video and phone across regional Australia.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 30, 2023

While increased accessibility of mental health care services through telehealth is a valuable goal, if our aim is the well-being of patients, safety must be paramount. a mental-health startup which focuses primarily on behavioral health, specifically the treatment of depression and ADHD. About Cerebral Inc.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

.” Perhaps Definition 3 in the OED could be updated by a blog published online in the September 25, 2020, issue of Health Affairs, A New “PPE” For A Thriving Community: Public Health, Primary Care, Health Equity. Why redefine, really re-imagine, PPE? In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 20, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency may be coming to an end in May. Even without the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual-first is the logical initial step for all nonemergency medical issues. Defaulting to in-person visits takes up a lot more time and money for both patients and doctors.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2021

Then COVID-19 hit. The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. Add COVID-19 to the mix, and we're now witnessing higher rates of infection and death from COVID-19 among African Americans, Hispanics and rural residents.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

adults say their concerns about personal health and wellness increased in the past year: in particular, stress and anxiety, and sleep and eating habits. Despite spending more time at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few people believe they live in a “healthy home.” One in two U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After declining for six years, the burnout rate among doctors began to spike with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research by the American Medical Association, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine. Though occupational burnout among doctors is higher relative to the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS. physicians was 62.8%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 "Continued availability and promotion of telehealth services might play a prominent role in increasing access to services during the public health emergency." " WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The expiration of such flexibilities, said the groups, could abruptly prevent some patients from seeing their doctors virtually – a particularly troubling matter for immunocompromised people still at risk for COVID-19. WHY IT MATTERS. The organizations asked state governors and legislatures. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

epicenters of the COVID-19 crisis, were some of the first to feel the brunt of the disease's effects. Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. Primary care providers in New York City, one of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Grimm wrote in a statement on Friday that the quick pivot to telemedicine amidst the COVID-19 pandemic makes oversight, transparency, accountability and program integrity all the more important. "OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

However, COVID-19 surges accelerated widespread telehealth adoption, as many couldn't leave their homes or were not comfortable coming to a doctor's office. With this, the health system saw many hospitals experience strains in their ability to accommodate the volume of patients needing care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As COVID-19 began surging across the globe in the early months of 2020, it almost immediately flooded health care providers with challenges and demands the industry had never before seen. When office visits became impossible, doctors shifted their business model almost overnight to offer patients virtual appointments.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Some health IT innovators and providers have turned to location and mapping services to assist with care. For instance, in 2017, Allscripts announced that it had partnered with Zocdoc to help patients with finding doctors and scheduling appointments.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act is co-sponsored by Rep. The legislation seeks to push forward with wider access to and use of telehealth – even beyond this public health emergency with its numerous waivers, allowances and temporary rule changes. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 20, 2022

Healthcare provider organizations and clinicians are fortunate that telehealth has gone mainstream as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

The Australian government has made available two new subsidised telephone consult services for patients living in COVID-19 hotspot areas. In a statement on Thursday, Health Minister Greg Hunt said the new Medicare items will enable doctors to provide 20 minutes or more of telephone consultations. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 3, 2021

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency? The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

is also part of COVID-19 consumers’ coping mechanisms for hunting-and-gathering the stuff of survival. In the COVID-19 era, drive-through and drive-up curbside service have become important go-to tactics for dealing with everyday life outside of urban centers. public health patchwork quilt.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms.

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Health Populi

JULY 20, 2020

The new era of virtual care has begun and is here to stay, Accenture expects in its latest look at How COVID-19 will permanently alter patient behavior , a patient survey conducted in May 2020. Fully one-third of patients starting using each of these 3 telehealth modalities during COVID-19. and the U.S.

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