Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. This data gap had serious and sometimes fatal implications for people with IDD during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. "With new areas across the country experiencing significant challenges to the capacity of their health care systems, our job is to make sure that CMS regulations are not standing in the way of patient care for COVID-19 and beyond."

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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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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

" Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Quality Care Analytics Care Data and Information. Dr Anne Snowdon, HIMSS Analytics' Chief Scientific Research Officer, moderated the discussion. Patient expectations.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. in Orange County Convention Center WF4.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

National Nurses United and the California Nurses Association released a joint statement this past week criticizing Kaiser Permanente's aims to expand advanced hospital services into patients' homes. "Nurses, more than any other healthcare staff, spend the most time with patients," said the unions in the statement.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Many health systems' journeys into wide-scale virtual care really began with the urgent need to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some health systems have been able to streamline and standardize processes across their extensive networks, even extending care to such locations as rural schools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2024

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Feds, states take up nurse staffing The past four years have been especially tough on nurses, of course.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

These programmes – National University Health System’s NUHS @ Home, Singapore General Hospital’s SGH @ Home and Yishun Health Medical Home – are now providing eligible patients with general medical conditions, such as skin infections, urinary tract infections, and COVID-19, with an option to be admitted to a virtual ward.

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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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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

JANUARY 4, 2021

Charlie Baker signed into law a wide-ranging bill that includes expanding access to telehealth after the COVID-19 public health emergency abates. Massachusetts Gov. WHY IT MATTERS. The new law makes some of those changes permanent, although others are only extended.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

An all-hands-on-deck push from heroic physicians and nurses to save the lives of as many COVID-19 inpatients as possible. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data.

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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." "COVID-19 showed the world what's wrong: Not enough focus on public health, prevention and equity. That's what we have to take to zero.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 11, 2022

Kaiser and Mayo have been supporters of the acute care at home model amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, with both health systems putting a combined $100 million toward Medically Home in May 2021.

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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. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

While nurses were in short supply before 2020, the coronavirus pandemic and stress on front-line health care workers exacerbated the shortage of nursing staff globally. Whether working in rural America, urban Britain, central Mumbai or suburban Auckland, the nursing profession s in a world of hurt.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 25, 2023

The company says that it aggregates a care team of nurses, doctors, pharmacists, coordinators and others and partners with payers, providers and employers. public health departments with implementing sexual health testing to reduce the incidence of rising sexually transmitted infections in their communities.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Taffy for the nursing homes, lollipops for the device manufacturers…. Quinney College of Law and an adjunct in the Department of Internal Medicine/Center for Health Ethics, Arts, and Humanities (CHeEtAH). The post Sweet Land of Immunity appeared first on Bill of Health. Most healthy, smiling faces in the crowd got some.

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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. This shortage poses public health risks; Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) has urged the DEA and the U.S. About Cerebral Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

Indeed, in 2020 and 2021, the AMA touted more advocacy efforts related to scope of practice that it did for any other issue — including COVID-19. Temporary regulations allowing NPs and other clinicians to do more during the COVID-19 pandemic could be evaluated and, if safe and cost-effective, expanded.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 10, 2025

"The primary responsibility of healthcare practitioners – doctors, nurses, pharmacists, etc. Cohen contended that Congress make permanent COVID Public Health Emergency concessions, rather than renewing the concessions biannually.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2020

GOOGLE BLOCKS MILLIONS OF COVID-19 SCAM EMAILS DAILY. They stated that, in the past week alone, they saw “18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19” with millions more spam emails, and were able to stop 99.9% ” DIGITAL APPOINTMENTS COULD BE PROBLEMATIC FOR MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 27, 2024

This comes as many COVID-19-era telehealth items, including assessments for COVID-19 antiviral medication over the phone, are set to expire next month, July. However, this does not cover assessments for COVID-19 antiviral medication over the phone.

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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. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Prior to having telemedicine technology in place, M Health Fairview was only able to provide specialty care and other services like hospice or diabetes education to patients throughout its 10 hospitals if it had someone who could "round" (come in person to see a patient) at that hospital. Working in quarantine.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2022

"In 2019, UVA Health created a multi-stakeholder strategic plan for telemedicine." In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region. '" PROPOSAL.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector. "These attacks have a higher chance of working due to conditions from COVID-19 expansion in the telehealth environment."

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MARCH 3, 2021

All Yale New Haven Health entities are on a single instance of the Epic EHR that spans Connecticut into western Rhode Island and Westchester County, New York. The health system has developed tele-stroke, tele-ICU and on-demand video visit programs. Scott Sussman, physician executive director telehealth at Yale New Haven Health.

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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

JULY 27, 2020

The program uses technology and a nursing-care coordination model to improve patient disease management, resulting in decreased readmission rates and increased patient satisfaction and self-efficacy.” “We are very grateful to have been awarded funds under the COVID-19 Telehealth Program,” Ommen remarked.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT At the start of the pandemic, the South Korean government immediately permitted the temporary conduct of telemedicine to help stem the spread of COVID-19 infections. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 22, 2022

It is clear that communication is one of the basic tenets of patient safety that health care staff need to regularly revisit. Poor patient communication by nurses and doctors could also lead to formal complaints and litigation. A litigation link? Good communication strategies may help head off these outcomes. ” Some NHS advice.

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