Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It recently issued a tender request for a supplier or a group of suppliers of a telehealth solution for delivering virtual nursing services to 30 unnamed residential aged care homes. They are expected to provide initial and ongoing training to staff in using the virtual nursing platform.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It also facilitates referrals, hospital appointment bookings, nursing care, and post-discharge follow-ups. The Chinese government is promoting the family doctor service to make high-quality primary care services more accessible to the general population and help decongest hospitals.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 27, 2025

The service, established as COVID@home in late 2021, runs seven days a week and is staffed by nurses, pharmacists, social workers, allied health navigators, and general practitioners. The state government has invested A$11.35 It will also accept referrals for discharged patients to help in their transition.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Citing a potential use case of CDSS amid the growing global Mpox outbreak, he said: "It’ll be helpful for nurses and rural doctors who are not up to date with the latest clinical development. CDSS [must be] mandatory. In Malaysia, it is a requirement to have some sort of a clinical decision support.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

Along with volunteers – who included retired nurses, college students, pilots and bartenders – the effort relied on government staff, many of whom were not healthcare workers. " In response, she said, the LouVax approach was to lead from the front.

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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." " It will also enable GPs and nurses to issue prescriptions and make referrals for laboratory tests.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Transitioning from decentralized efforts to a unified framework is one way a health system can achieve notable milestones such as significant time savings for nursing staff and securing grants for community-based care initiatives.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Last November, the OIG published industry-specific compliance guidance for 2024 for several healthcare subsectors, including nursing homes and facilities. More specifically, the 2024 guidance for nursing facilities focuses on several areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 28, 2020

Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: VA healthcare slated for modernization; COVID-19 testing required for nursing home staffs Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Significant Workflow and Workload Benefits The OMD study examined the use of AI scribes by more than 150 family doctors and nurse practitioners (NPs) over a three month period. The AI scribes were used to capture conversations between those family doctors or nurse practitioners and their patients.

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Health Law Attorney

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

On November 20, 2024, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released its updated Industry-Specific Compliance Program Guidance (ICPG) for nursing facilities, marking an important step in its broader compliance initiative. Both the 2000 CPG and 2008 Supplemental CPG will remain available as archived resources on the OIG website.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 3, 2023

Nurses have been in high demand for years, and especially since the pandemic. As baby boomers continue to age, the demand for bedside nursing continues to increase. "We tried to build our model around the notion that each patient will now have two nurses coordinating their care."

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The Australian government is investing A$312.6 According to Health Minister Mark Butler, the ICT modernisation budget will help reduce the administrative burden for over 2,000 providers and sustain the existing operations of the My Aged Care system, which helps connect senior folks to government-funded aged care services. billion ($2.5

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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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Modern Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

For the first time, the federal government aims to impose staffing minimums at nursing homes, an estimated 75% of which would need to hire more nurses.

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. But it can have serious repercussions. The trial took place in 2019.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 29, 2023

THE LARGER CONTEXT The project started in 2021 as a proof of concept between Personify Care and the Central Adelaide Local Health Network (CALHN) with support from the SA government's Go2Gov programme. Since then, it has reduced workload pressure on front-line hospital staff while providing convenient care access to patients.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

ADHA names nursing adviser The Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA) has appointed Karen Booth as its first chief clinical adviser for nursing. Its development has been backed by the federal government's Aged Care Research and Industry Innovation Australia grants program.

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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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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 14, 2022

Health officials in at least three states are investigating a travel nurse suspected of tampering with and potentially contaminating vials and syringes of opioid painkillers in two hospitals, then returning the vials to medication cabinets where they could be unknowingly given to patients. Those results haven’t been made public.

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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. For that reason, many industry observers continue to suggest that now is the time for the government to fund the critical sector.

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Kaiser Health News

MARCH 17, 2023

These proposed regulations — and others in at least 11 more states, according to the American Staffing Association industry trade group — come after demand for travel nurses, who work temporary assignments at different facilities, surged to unprecedented levels during the worst of the covid-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Today, we’re featuring the Staff Nurse III – Information Technology at Natividad position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. Staff Nurse III – Information Technology Natividad is accepting applications for a permanent, full-time Staff Nurse III in the Information Technology Department.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 17, 2022

Trust is crucial in encouraging the uptake of digital health systems, according to Anne Moen, professor of health informatics and nursing at the faculty of medicine in the University of Oslo. Nordic countries have long-established digital services, with many interactions with government already occurring online.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2025

For example, if your academic health sciences center has 40 clinical subspecialties across a dozen medical and surgical departments, and you populate your provider advisory council with only seven physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants to guide a massive clinical transformation – good luck to you!

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

So when MNGHA started developing a new virtual reality-enabled application – designed in alignment with Saudi Arabia's Digital Government Strategy (2023-2030) – that sought to help connect hospitalized inpatients with their distanced loved ones, "Bynahm" felt like the right name to choose for the app.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 5, 2024

Ashley Franks, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer at TigerConnect Nurses, the backbone of the medical field, have been facing a critical threat: burnout. A worrying 29% of nurses reported feeling like they’re at their wits’ end several times a week or even daily.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Sean Kelly , Chief Medical Officer and SVP of Customer Strategy, Imprivata In the wake of the pandemic, the nursing field has continued to suffer large-scale burnout and a wave of retirements. The remaining nurses are caught in a vicious burnout cycle, forced to bear an ever-increasing burden as their colleagues quit or retire.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a Board-Certified Internist and Geriatrician with over 35 years of providing care in nursing facilities, this sentiment has guided me throughout my career. Our nursing facility industry is about to crumble. The nursing industry is being torn apart by the convergence of several major currents: 1. million to 1.35 million to 1.35

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 5, 2022

Telehealth consultation items for nurse practitioners, midwifery, nursing and other allied health that were offered prior to the pandemic have also closed. Patient-end support items linked to pre-COVID telehealth services by GPs and other medical practitioners have ended as well. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The outlet was also told by one nurse, who wished to remain anonymous, that some of St. Cyberattacks are happening almost every day, which has led to the federal government mandating Zero Trust architecture across agencies. KHOU Houston local news reported on October 5 that some patient appointments were being rescheduled.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Moreover, the DiGA-concept will be applied in the nursing field with the creation of the so-called digital nursing applications ( DiPA ) to be launched on 1 January 2022. Their aim is to assist organising and managing nursing tasks, especially with a view to support those looking after relatives at home.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 29, 2024

Salesforce for public health and other government agencies could integrate natural language processing to ease administrative burdens and generate richer case files. With the new platform, government users would also be able to leverage Appointment Assistant, Slack and Visual Remote Assistant.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this video, you can hear about the technologies and regulations needed in LTPAC from Bill Charnetski, Executive Vice President, Health System Solutions and Government Affairs at PointClickCare.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

PIO is also expected to reduce the workload for nursing personnel by interacting with patients while supporting the management of their condition. Local governments in South Korea have provided companion robots to single persons and those who are living with mental health issues to support their well-being. THE LARGER TREND.

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