Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. How has the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the need for artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, moving into 2022, with the goal of improving patient and clinical outcomes?

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pervasive inequities experienced by historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities. Although disabled people have always experienced inequities concerning economic security, these disparities have grown substantially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 11, 2022

Long COVID has left an estimated 1.6 Those experiencing Long COVID face long-term neurological issues, heart problems, lung damage, and myriad other complications following an initial bout with COVID-19. Though some who are incapacitated by Long COVID will eventually be able to return to work, others may never work again.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 17, 2021

By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell. The article A Lesson Learned From COVID-19: The Significance of The Primary Care Physician Shortage appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Community Organized Relief Effort in Georgia, better known as CORE, had a major operational challenge to coordinate all the logistical issues of setting up mobile vaccinations for COVID-19 across an entire state and managing dozens of field teams at more than 100 different locations. THE PROBLEM. ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2021

Starting tomorrow, the Indonesian government will deliver free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms across the country in a bid to ease hospital pressure as cases hit record highs. billion for COVID-19 treatment, testing, tracing, drugs, vaccines and protective gear. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. The post How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Overall, building a patient management program – most notably in the wake of COVID-19 – is critical. Hospitals need solutions and tools that enable real-time data to flow smoothly with the right governance, and that leverage predictive insights to help equip care teams with the information needed to make shared decisions.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Without doubt, the crucial requirement of us all, as citizens, to be physically distant as part of the response globally to COVID-19 has resulted in a significant shift in how we think about technology as a tool to overcome distance. Shifting the perception of digital health and care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 26, 2020

specialists, 79% said that their use of telemedicine technology had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, many stakeholders say there's no going back to a pre-COVID-19 environment when it comes to the virtual care landscape. In a new survey of U.S. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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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. government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” Pandemic Pledges. Moderna’s Pledge.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2020

Despite its relatively small size, the government in New Zealand’s managed to effectively mitigate the spread of the virus within the country. However, the New Zealand government also put in place a swift information services response to the lockdown within the country. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2022

public health infrastructure nor American political culture support the kind of muscular central government mandates that have characterized the COVID-19 policies of many other countries. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Neither the U.S.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. In short, the compromise only waives a single 20-word paragraph in one article: the one dealing with exports under a non-voluntary authorization.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. And most relate solely to COVID-19 interventions, which sunset permanently as states withdraw their emergencies.

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Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Increases in healthcare utilization and insurance coverage were offset by lower government spending on COVID-19, according to new CMS data.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 1, 2021

When the COVID-19 pandemic began to sweep across the United Kingdom in March 2020, the government quickly moved to impose a stay-at-home order. Dewhurst and Kreofsky will explain more in their HIMSS21 session, "Developing a Teleneonatology Program in Response to COVID-19." in Venetian Marco Polo 701.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 21, 2023

An analysis by KFF found state spending on Medicaid fell during the COVID-19 pandemic even as enrollment soared. But spending will likely increase as the federal government begins to pare back its increased contribution.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Several technological solutions have been launched to help manage the COVID-19 pandemic, notably to detect the first symptoms, track the virus, carry out tests and support the population in accessing and receiving healthcare. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD. “We could reduce mortality by more than 50%,” she said.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 15, 2022

Diagnostic tests have changed in the eyes of many Americans across the COVID-19 pandemic. The traditional site of diagnostic testing, the doctor’s office, has taken a back seat during the COVID-19 pandemic. What do current COVID-19 diagnostic tests look like?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

Volunteer doctors from the US-based American Association of Physicians of Indian-Origin and Hindu faith-based group Sewa International have been offering teleconsultations and medical advice to COVID-19 patients in India via the eGlobalDoctors platform. WHAT THEY DO. WHY THIS MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 8, 2020

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory, reimbursement and technological changes have all helped trigger a massive and rapid expansion of telehealth accessibility. This has become especially evident during the COVID-19 crisis, which has disproportionately affected African American and Latinx people in the United States.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

Professors at the University of Arizona argue for more robust infrastructure to understand and research long COVID-19, which impacts one in five Americans.

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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

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In the control group, which received only brief information about the COVID-19 vaccination, there were no comparable results in terms of general views and willingness to vaccinate. per cent), very few people have received the double COVID-19 vaccine dose. THE LARGER TREND. per cent), Ireland (76.2 In Slovakia (45.7

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 30, 2024

On Wednesday, hospitals will no longer be required to report COVID-19 admissions, capacity or occupancy data to the federal government.

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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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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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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

seeks to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, many who survive the initial illness suffer debilitating long-term health impacts, especially those with underlying health conditions. The COVID-19 Research Database features a wide array of data about most of the U.S. Even as the U.S.

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Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mental health conditions continued to dominate telehealth diagnoses last year as the federal government worked to protect telehealth provisions during the COVID-19 public health emergency now set to end.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The UK government has launched a “far-reaching review” into the impact of potential bias in the design and use of medical devices. Race Equality Foundation CEO Jabeer Butt welcomed the review, but said it was not enough to explain the disproportionate deaths of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people from COVID-19.

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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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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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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. Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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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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