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

AUGUST 20, 2021

Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe Guide on Adaptation to Heat for Health provides the building blocks of a plan to ensure an effective heat response for local populations. They can refer them to a hospital or change their medication.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 30, 2022

Cambridge University Hospitals Foundation Trust (CUH) has implemented a fully integrated patient surveillance infrastructure based on Masimo’s Patient SafetyNet TM supplemental remote monitoring and clinician notification system and Halo ION™, which provides clinicians with a comprehensive, personalised and continuous patient score.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2024

Over A$235 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government so it can recruit more clinicians. Expanding the VVED will also enable it to support more direct referrals from aged care, paramedics, primary health networks, the Nurse on Call service and self-referrals from the community.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Victoria announces $14M EMR expansion The Victorian government is investing A$21.4 million ($14 million) more to replace paper-based patient medical records systems in several public health settings. Peninsula Health in Melbourne, Victoria has also contracted Alcidion to implement the same patient flow management platform.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth. However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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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. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. The statewide expansion of virtualKIDS, which is part of the current NSW government's commitment to delivering 25 urgent care services by mid-2025, is now expected to support at least 500 NSW children and their families each month.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2023

Thammasat University Hospital is embarking on a digital transformation of its elderly care service. The hospital signed a memorandum of understanding with NEC Thailand for the development of a digital platform to digitise all records and treatment plans at Thammasat Thammarak Center.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 4, 2023

More residential aged care residents in Western Sydney can now access an IT-enabled urgent care service by the New South Wales government following its expansion. THE LARGER CONTEXT The Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD) first introduced the inTouch service in 2021 to provide at-home care for over 45,000 COVID-19 patients.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 1, 2022

government officials and media celebrate recent economic gains , women — especially women of color — are not recouping their economic losses. Law can be a powerful tool to advance public health , and workplace scheduling is no exception. Public health agencies can play a key role in labor and employment law.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, or MiHIN, has partnered with Beyond Lucid Technologies, a healthcare data exchange and analytics company, as well as the Reading Emergency Unit and South Central-based Hillsdale Hospital. Then, MiHIN will leverage its network to route the CCD to Hillsdale Hospital.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Israel’s Sheba Medical Center and the Heart Institute at Safra Children's Hospital have partnered to launch a programme for children with complex heart defects. The program will use remote monitoring technology provided by Datos Health , a member of Sheba’s Accelerate, Redesign, Collaborate (ARC) telemedicine hub.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 20, 2023

Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing to examine cybersecurity risks to the healthcare sector, how healthcare providers and the federal government are working to combat those threats, and determine what the federal government needs to do to improve defenses against cyberattacks on the healthcare sector.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2024

The second version of ONC's Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, is designed to support the data exchange needs of patients, providers, payers and public health agencies.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Australian gov't urged to raise My Health Record funding An organisation of general practitioners in Australia has called on the federal government to upgrade the country's digital health record system. This digital project is part of CALHN's CAN Connect virtual nursing service.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called climate change “the biggest health risk of the century” It estimates that between 2030 and 2050 climate change will cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year. ” Educating the health workforce.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

"Wi-Fi is still a local network – it is only [usable] within the hospital itself regardless of how fast [the speed]. " Do digitally native hospitals have an edge over traditional hospitals when adopting 5G? As a long-time veteran in Taiwan’s public healthcare, Lee shared his view.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. health care spending. health care spending.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. These include specialist diagnostic assessment, screening, and treatment; ongoing management of chronic and complex conditions; and pre and post-hospital care. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In return, the Austrian government loosened public restrictions. Germany has introduced compulsory COVID-19 vaccination limited to all employees in hospitals, nursing homes, facilities for the disabled, emergency services, medical surgeries and maternity facilities which must be applied by mid March. WHY IT MATTERS.

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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. Adoption of digital health in the various healthcare ecosystems had not been well established. Hospitals were also not prepared for separating the workflows within the organisation.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 17, 2022

NSW Ambulance recently received over A$55 million ($38 million) worth of new technology and equipment from the state government to enhance their provision of cardiac care. The package includes a cardiac notification platform that improves ambulance-to-hospital communications.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 17, 2022

“This relies on the trust that citizens and professionals have in digital health tools. That means the government should build the framework to enhance trust for citizens.” ” Buzyn said that France had built two main digital health tools to help implement healthcare and improve public health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. Via the mobile app, patients could also check their laboratory results and receive their e-medical certificates to reduce time spent at the hospital.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. The platform was built to keep COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms out of hospitals given the lack of hospital beds.

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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. The country's health spending has also been raised to $13.39

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services. In 2019, J.D.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Population health and precision medicine defined. When President Barack Obama announced during the 2015 State of the Union Address that the government was launching the Precision Medicine Initiative, a debate began about whether and how precision medicine and population health management could coexist in the U.S. health system.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The National Health Authority of India will now incentivise hospitals for providing valuable service through a new initiative. According to a press release, AB PM-JAY-linked hospitals will be paid and rewarded based on five performance indicators: Beneficiary satisfaction. Hospital readmission rate. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 17, 2022

The Australian government is briefly subsidising some telehealth services as it deals with a new COVID-19 outbreak. These changes to telehealth are being done to support the continuity of patient care amid the current COVID-19 restrictions and to help relieve the pressure on the overwhelmed hospital system.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2020

While the federal government has relaxed some patient privacy rules in response to the coronavirus pandemic, there are still avoidable mistakes healthcare professionals make when it comes to protecting patient data. The following is a guest article by Mark LaRow, CEO at Verato.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 7, 2023

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The municipality of Chiang Mai and NEC Thailand recently signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of smart city solutions, including smart hospital technologies to support its provision of elderly care. Their number is projected to continuously rise and make up about 30% of the population by 2040.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In addition, the report also noted that close to a quarter of respondents are set to extend care delivery beyond the hospital. Digital Transformation chief Setiaji said they were prompted to upskill health workers who have been mere "input officers" untrained to harness data. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

To better navigate the regulatory guidance governing tracking technologies and ensure the PHI of patients and prospective patients stays safe, WebMD Ignite said Tuesday that it can help healthcare organizations ensure they're not sharing protected data with tools that aren’t HIPAA-compliant.

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