Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

" People are increasingly disclosing information about their personal health through wearables, social media and other technologies, and researchers and the government are actively encouraging that sharing, she said. The new narrative affects not only data privacy, but it affects "the basic experience of going to the doctor."

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2024

adults surveyed in March 2024 about their use of genAI, 66% think it could reduce extended wait times for doctor’s appointments and lower individual healthcare costs. In the earlier study, researchers found healthcare leaders implementing and looking to scale genAI need more focus on governance, patient preferences and workforce needs.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 26, 2024

Not-for-profit aeromedical services provider Royal Flying Doctor Service has introduced what could be the first unmanned virtual medical emergency centre in Australia's outback. Meanwhile, the patient can wait in a secure treatment room before an RFDS aeromedical crew arrives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 6, 2025

The government will invest in the new service, which is expected to "provide all New Zealanders with better access to video consultations with New Zealand-registered clinicians, such as GPs and nurse practitioners. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 21, 2025

One of the government's concerns has been the practice of visiting multiple healthcare providers across non-integrated systems to obtain multiple prescriptions, known as "doctor shopping," which the agency has said drives drug diversion.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 14, 2025

Government Regulation Hims? Compounding pharmacies typically prepare personalized medications by mixing, altering, or combining ingredients to meet specific needs prescribed by a doctor, under Section 503A. Its Novo Nordisks Semaglutide Market Now Between Feb. 19-26, shares for the telehealth company Hims & Hers Health, Inc.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

More healthcare stakeholders in China are contributing to the government's vision to make smart Chinese medicine popular and standardised. The Chinese government is focusing on smart hospital construction to meet the perceived increase in healthcare services demand over the coming years.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 13, 2024

"Recent actionable threat intelligence provided by our partners in the Health-ISAC and government agencies indicate that this known Russian-speaking group is actively targeting the U.S. However, staff at local Ascension hospitals cannot page doctors.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The DiGA initiative is part of the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG) that sets the legal framework for doctors to prescribe DiGAs to the 73 million citizens insured with a statutory health insurer that reimburses their use, and has been recognised as a pioneering approach globally. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Future Health Index insights report captures feedback from 500 doctors under the age of 40 in five countries: the United States of America, China, Singapore, France and Germany. During COVID it rapidly became a ‘need-to-have’ The ability to maintain a patient/doctor relationship remotely was a major step-up for virtual care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2021

This has raised the importance of price transparency, which is based on the hypothesis that if patients had access to personally-relevant price/cost information from doctors and hospitals for medical services, and pharmacies and PBMs for prescription drugs, the patient would behave as a consumer and shop around. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

Nordic countries have long-established digital services, with many interactions with government already occurring online. ” Bauer says that the EU must publicize its digital health programs more widely not just on radio, newspapers and television, but also in doctors’ offices and community buildings to better engage citizens.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 30, 2024

While the enthusiasm for genAI will remain elevated this year – with governments even investing in this emerging lucrative space , the pace of adoption will likely be slow, says Kota Kubo, CEO of Ubie. It gives doctors an understanding of a patient’s condition quickly so they get more face-to-face time with patients.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Victorian government has invested A$2.4 This new entrepreneurship programme is backed by funding from the Future Health Research and Innovation Fund and the Medical Research Future Fund of the federal government. Ambulance Victoria onboards My Emergency Doctor to its Secondary Triage service. million ($1.6 million ($1.45

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Blood pressure, oxygen level, pulse rate, respiratory rate – all those things can be captured and sent back to the software system and doctors. Whether it's government payers or the commercial payers, they have started to cover more and more of these initiatives. I think the industry is going through a transformation.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The service harnesses the adaptability of mobile devices to allow doctors and hospitals to provide more virtual visits and consultations. Because, put simply, there just aren’t enough doctors or hospitals to go around.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

” The DiGA initiative, created under the 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (DVG), means doctors can prescribe apps to the 73 million German citizens covered by public health, with costs reimbursed through health insurance. I’m very direct with you – we will just replicate what works in Germany.”

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2024

It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff. Over A$235 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government so it can recruit more clinicians.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

Virtual health visits were the only exception to this, due to the forced adoption during the pandemic when it was impossible to see doctors face to face. “It was striking to us that we were seeing uniform deceleration of adoption of digital technologies, wearables and apps over the time period,” Dr Safevi said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

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. Will the government and commercial payers continue to reimburse for telemedicine? But what's to happen in 2022?

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amrita Hospital in Faridabab announced that the head of its Radiation Oncology department has received a grant from the government to develop a robot-assisted ultrasound system for image-guided therapies and hyperthermia for cancer treatment.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

In San Diego, John connected with healthcare IT leaders who shared their thoughts on how to train AI, improve AI governance, and find the right AI use cases , all while leading a modern healthcare organization. Read more… Balancing Data Sharing With Protection Amid Competing Government Data Requirements.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We hold training sessions for [medical] students who can directly communicate with doctors and surgeons in operating theatres using 5G,” shared William Chan, CIO, CUHK Medical Centre. "We [the government] need to set up regulation infrastructures [for 5G adoption].

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Doctors, nurses, and administrative staff are the heart of healthcare operations, but they are also extremely busy. It’s important to establish strong connections with existing governance forums to secure ownership of risk by functional leaders. Everyone can be a target of a cybercriminal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2024

Queensland Virtual Hospital extends to emergency care The Queensland state government has set aside A$27 million ($18 million) to expand the Queensland Virtual Hospital's services to cover emergency care.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 9, 2022

” Report says AI standards are essential to protect doctor-patient relationships. A Council of Europe report has called for clear ethical standards and guidance for the use of AI in health settings to protect the trust between doctors and patients and safeguard human rights.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

In the final phase, NEC will enable telemedicine services to allow patients to receive diagnoses and get on consultations with doctors from their homes. NEC Thailand is helping the local government to brace for the impact of an ageing population, particularly the increase in healthcare demand, by digitising care delivery for the elderly.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Before what he referred to as the major ramp up in attacks against healthcare that began in 2015, there was "an appreciable minority of patients who were uncomfortable providing all their information to their doctors," he told attendees at the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum in Boston earlier this month.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 19, 2024

Since the pandemic, the Mount Alvernia IT team has created 13 applications, including the Staff Health System (which was initially a contact tracing solution), Doctors Directory, Medical Records Tracking, and Electronic Meal Ordering. Furthermore, enterprise IT teams can enhance security assurance by applying enterprise SAST solutions."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 20, 2022

This comes as part of the additional A$162 million ($122 million) funding provided by the state government of Victoria to the health service to improve the operations of Ambulance Victoria. The service virtually connects patients with non-life-threatening emergencies to nurses and doctors via video call. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 29, 2024

They aim to deliver up to 2,000 Sihat Xpress telehealth kiosks by Mudah to at least 1,000 rural doctors serving in areas covered by CONNECTme NOW, MEASAT's satellite broadband service. THE LARGER CONTEXT Enabling equitable access to quality healthcare is one of the Malaysian government's priorities for health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 9, 2024

Robotic telesurgery continues to take off in Indonesia with the support of the government of Iran. The Robotic Telesurgery Center, a project between the two governments, is being expanded to connect the western and eastern islands of Indonesia at a distance of 3,500 kilometres.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As scholars, we grapple with the question of what happens once the right to health is constitutionalized and whether it has a transformative effect on the economy, government funding, and the material reality people face in struggling health care systems.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Queensland to pilot telestroke service at Hervey Bay Hospital The Queensland government has designated Hervey Bay Hospital as the pilot site for the upcoming statewide telestroke service. The state government has committed A$5.8 Queensland is the remaining Australian state to launch a telestroke service. million ($3.8

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Compliancy Group

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

billion in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and other government insurers for orthotic braces, prescription skin creams, and other items that were medically unnecessary and ineligible for Medicare reimbursement. In late February of 2025, defendant Gregory Schreck, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States government.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2023

" A new provision in the proposed guidelines explicitly discourages providing care and prescriptions to patients with whom a doctor has never consulted, whether in-person or via video or telephone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2021

In an announcement released by the United Arab Emirates’ official news agency, WAM , DoH’s International Patient Care (IPC) Division – which focuses on coordinating consultations and treatment plans between a patient, their local doctor, and consultant based outside of the UAE – has resumed.

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