Fierce Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Health workers' licenses at risk if they spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation. agliadkovskaya. Thu, 09/09/2021 - 13:11.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 6, 2022

It only narrowly modifies compulsory licenses of patents covering COVID vaccines. Moreover, it imposes additional restrictions on use of compulsory licenses. IP on COVID vaccines should be a global public good. This is true not just for COVID, but future pandemics. We need a new approach. What does that mean?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we built an integrated telehealth platform within our Epic EHR using a third-party vendor, ExtendedCare.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 25, 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic paved the way for expanded virtual care, telehealth has grown in adoption. How are your licensing processes adapting to this changing environment?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 15, 2025

THE PROBLEM The demand for behavioral health services is overwhelming across the country, but it's particularly acute in Missouri, where approximately only 200 of the state's 1,000 licensed psychiatrists actually reside in the state to serve a population of about 6 million.

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

However, as patients continue to be concerned about exposure to COVID-19, 3 in 5 are concerned about being at-risk to the virus in their doctor’s office, according to research from the Alliance of Community Health Plans (ACHP) and AMCP , the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. ACHP and AMCP polled 1,263 U.S.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic opened a new door for treatment. Typically, behavioral health providers must be licensed in the state where their patient is physically located to be able to treat them. Traditionally, providers who sought licenses across multiple states incurred financial and time costs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 23, 2020

Protecting pediatric patients, their families and hospital staff required a radical and rapid shift in care delivery strategies for Phoenix Children’s Hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. ” Healthcare IT News has compiled a comprehensive listing of telemedicine vendors in the age of COVID-19.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Some COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers in the US have refused to share vaccine samples for research purposes , creating an access issue with the potential to delay comparator studies, follow-on research, and new vaccine / drug development. By Aparajita Lath. However, some suggest that patents are impeding access to research.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

by Tara Sklar Because I believe strongly in the benefits of telehealth, I have obtained licenses in six states through the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact. States with a telehealth registration allow out-of-state physicians to deliver telehealth services to patients located in that state without pursuing a full medical license.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently embroiled in a dispute over the ownership of patent rights to Moderna’s flagship mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273). The NIH, which funded much of Moderna’s research on the COVID-19 vaccine, should be assertive in exerting control over the results of this taxpayer-funded research.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A frequently discussed consequence of the COVID-19 crisis is the uptick in reliance on telehealth, with both patients and clinicians pivoting quickly to virtual care in order to minimize in-person contact. "COVID-19 has forced people into virtual mediums," Flannery continued. "Companies like ours.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 26, 2022

From the time Burrell Behavioral Health in Springfield, Missouri, received initial reports of the COVID-19 pandemic reaching the surrounding areas, clients and staff members became concerned about their physical health and wellbeing. Burrell team members wanted to be able to work remotely and reduce the risk of exposure to COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

On a relative basis, we were fortunate compared to many others in that our basic clinical and operational models for telepsychiatry existed well before the PHE and we continued to operate during COVID-19 without relying heavily on many of the PHE’s specific telehealth flexibilities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2022

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. "Approximately 1,000 licenses were implemented in a very compressed period of time," he continued. THE PROBLEM.

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The Health Law Firm

APRIL 21, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law Staffing shortages at hospitals across the US are worsening helped along by state boards and other licensing authorities taking months to process nursing licenses, a recent NPR survey claims. Indest III, J.D., Now, it's resulted in a considerable backlog in nurses waiting for jobs.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Patient and staff safety, which are primary concerns, were especially critical after the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent mandatory shut-downs nationally. These can be categorized in three areas: patient/staff safety, communication and logistics. THE PROBLEM.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. Lindsey Goehring refrains from arguing all licenses fall within the purview of the federal domain, but maintains that telemedicine would qualify as interstate commerce. By Timothy Bonis.

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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. What are some of your predictions for 2022 and beyond about the way telehealth will be used, especially as the COVID 19 pandemic continues?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

John's Well Child and Family Center in Los Angeles had the resources to provide large-scale COVID-19 testing, it was clear that its service area of South L.A. and Compton would be at significantly higher risk for COVID-19 infection and complications than other areas of L.A. Even before St. THE PROBLEM.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

"To recruit clinicians outside of the geographic region, it was necessary to ensure the entirety of the clinician's visits could be completed remotely and that they were licensed in the state in which the patient is located at the time of the visit," he added. MARKETPLACE.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 7, 2021

It's no secret, at this point, that telehealth rates exploded in response to the COVID-19 crisis. "No one could have predicted COVID-19, so it is no surprise that all vendors initially struggled to manage the rapid increase in telehealth adoption," said KLAS researchers. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

representatives has reintroduced a bill aimed at expanding access to telehealth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 legislation was introduced this past week by Rep. A bipartisan group of U.S. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., cosponsored by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt.,

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2020

As you can imagine, with all our COVID-19 coverage, we’re getting thousands of people searching something on a search engine and discovering the site. In those searches are a lot of interesting questions that people are obviously trying to find the answers to in this crazy new pandemic world we live in.

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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.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2020

But when COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic in March, the system’s telehealth strategy took a sharp turn. ” Grady Health remote patient monitoring has been used to support social distancing while providing in-home COVID-19 screening through virtual assessments pushed to patients’ mobile devices.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 15, 2021

The organizations note that the COVID-19 pandemic pushed many hospitals and health plans toward remote work, including providing care via telemedicine. WHY IT MATTERS. Many of those systems turned to Teams to connect clinicians and patients via video. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"COVID-19 has changed not only the way we live, but the way healthcare providers support their patients, especially in regard to mental health," said Cuomo in a statement. Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

As seen in other areas of healthcare where the pandemic drove RPM adoption, the survey identified a rapid increase in RPM adoption in cardiac rehab since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic , with 65% of respondents having started using the technology within the last two years.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

The pressures of COVID-19 pushed clinician burnout to new heights – one out of five physicians and two in five nurses say they will leave their profession within two years because of it, an American Medical Association study shows. How can chatbots and automation tech be used to combat clinician burnout?

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 27, 2023

With data from more 11,000 individuals monitored during the COVID pandemic, DoD can issue commercial wearables "to noninvasively monitor a service member’s health and provide early alerts to potential infection before it spreads," said Jeff Schneider, program manager for the RATE, in a statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Circle representatives say the move will also allow Canadian physicians who are licensed in the applicable states to provide care to patients virtually across the border. Despite a dip in recent months , demand for telehealth has skyrocketed overall since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. Best of all, in the era of COVID-19, cutting waiting room time means cutting the risk of exposure. When COVID-19 hit, all medical offices shut their lobby doors almost overnight.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 18, 2022

"Looking at our innovation and health IT project queue, we saw we had some capital needs and wanted to keep our margins steady despite greater costs associated with COVID-19," said Dr. Brett A. One of the biggest learnings from COVID-19 was that patient expectations had changed.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 27, 2021

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic hitting in early 2020, Behavioral Health Services North in Plattsburgh, New York, did not frequently use telehealth because of regulatory constraints and what staff considered somewhat cumbersome practices. In addition, it has seen increased client engagement via virtual platforms.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

"Another major hurdle we faced was a lack of adequate resources to manage the growing complexity of patient care, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic," she continued. The telemedicine providers must be licensed to work in the state and credentialed and privileged to provide patient care in the facility, she said.

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