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Personal Crusades for Public Health

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. It explores how they must negotiate public health measures on their own.

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Rebuilding Trust in Public Health and Public Health Law

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wolf With our recent (and continuing) experience of the devastating COVID-19 global pandemic, one might think that our collective appreciation for public health efforts and the people advancing those efforts would be high. An essential first step is to refocus on the “public” in public health.

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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Healthcare It News

APRIL 29, 2024

Improvements in public health case administration, faster prior authorizations for specialty medications and rideshare delivery of lab kits for wellness are just a few interesting goals making vendor news in April. The company's application walks users through tests and uploads results by Bluetooth.

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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It also exposes hospitals to the risk of liability.

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How hospitals should engage in the 'information war'

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A report out this week from Boston Digital examines the role that original digital libraries of health topics can play in hospitals' web-traffic performance. hospitals, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report , 68% of all search traffic comes purely from health information content, said the report. THE LARGER TREND.

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Hospital margins continue to stabilize but remain below pre-pandemic levels

Healthcare Dive

MAY 4, 2023

Rising expenses and thin operating margins have left hospitals vulnerable to a potential recession or a new public health emergency.

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South Korea's smart hospital concept: A focus on patients' need and experience

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Developing smart hospitals has been a way for South Korea to meet the growing demand for more personalised healthcare in their fast-ageing society. At the helm of this effort is the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), an agency under the Ministry of Health and Welfare.

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Roundup: Latrobe Regional Hospital turns to VR training and more briefs

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Latrobe Regional Hospital upgrades medical training with VR. Latrobe Regional Hospital, a specialist referral and trauma centre in Gippsland, has tied up with Vantari VR to incorporate a virtual reality platform in its medical training. Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ.

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Eyeing Europe's COVID-19 resurgence, AHA asks HHS to renew public health emergency

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 29, 2022

In a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, hospitals emphasized the need to be prepared for more potential disruptions to the healthcare delivery system.

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COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives, study calculates

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The vaccines also reduced infections and hospitalizations, which freed up hospital resources, researchers at the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health concluded.

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Roundup: Digital well-being tools for farmers, hospital staff launched and more briefs

Healthcare It News

MARCH 16, 2023

Clintel's CareRight goes live at The Hobart Clinic Tasmanian mental healthcare provider The Hobart Clinic has implemented Clintel Systems' CareRight platform across its inpatient and outpatient hospital and community care institution. The platform, configured for its use, includes PAS, EMR, billing, and claiming.

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Thammasat University Hospital taps NEC Thailand to digitise elderly care

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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ONC drafts Federal Health IT Plan for 2024-2030, calls for public comment

Healthcare It News

MARCH 28, 2024

This draft plan puts an emphasis on the importance of an equitable integration of healthcare IT across public health sectors and highlights the significance of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. The comment period is open for 60 days, with May 28 the deadline for review and comments on the draft plan.

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Hospitals in Poor Rural Counties Face the Greatest Financial Threat from COVID

Bill of Health

APRIL 11, 2022

The latest wave of COVID cases and hospitalizations has raised concerns about the financial resilience of many hospitals in the United States. Large hospitals in metropolitan areas have, for the most part, weathered the storm. Rural hospital financial stress and resulting closures are nothing new.

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Korea to link health records of 8 million patients to MyHealthway

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The South Korean government seeks to streamline access to the personal health records of over eight million patients held in tertiary general hospitals in a single platform by next year. WHAT IT'S ABOUT My Healthway allows Koreans to view their medical records in a standardised format from various hospitals.

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Digital at the core of a collaborative care model

Healthcare It News

APRIL 8, 2024

Island Hospital, a private quaternary hospital in Malaysia, is providing a case for this by building an integrated health ecosystem that fosters cooperation and collaboration among stakeholders. Island Hospital is using Vesalius, the hospital and clinical information system by Nova. its mobile patient application.

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CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Among them are new allowances for telehealth and remote monitoring, for what CMS is calling the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. "The patient’s home is considered part of the hospital during the admission." WHY IT MATTERS.

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Acute hospital care at home gets good grades from CMS research

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Patients who received care under the pandemic's Acute Hospital Care at Home program had a low mortality rate and minimal complications related to escalations back to the brick-and-mortar hospital, according to a CMS research letter published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Health Forum.

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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

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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ONC says stakeholders can 'pick up and run' with new regs

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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InterSystems cloud integration service comes to NZ and more briefs

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

WA Health extends cloud contract with Atos Atos will continue delivering managed services, hybrid cloud, and core infrastructure services to Health Support Services (HSS), the ICT service provider for WA Health, following a contract extension. It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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What should interoperability look like in eight years? ONC asked, you answered

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Health professionals will also spend less time on administrative tasks and more time caring for their patients, hoped some stakeholders, helped along by integrated clinical and administrative process data. For instance, studies have shown that although interoperability in cities is improving, small hospitals are lagging behind.

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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

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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Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2021

A group of healthcare organizations announced this week the launch of the Advanced Care at Home Coalition, an advocacy effort aimed at creating a pathway toward safeguarding access to hospital-level services. The coalition's perspective, he said, is that regulators should "put guardrails on, but let us continue the good work.

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HIMSSCast: Predicting what's next for health IT, mobile tech and health system finances

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Talking points: The future of the Public Health Emergency and the flexibilities it allows. A "perfect storm" of financial stress for hospitals and health systems. Silicon Valley and the state of VC funding for digital health startups. Telehealth's future after the end of the public health emergency.

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$14M more for EMR implementation in Victoria and more briefs

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

million ($14 million) more to replace paper-based patient medical records systems in several public health settings. Implementation of a "connected and standardised" EMR system at these healthcare facilities will be supported by Hospitals Victoria and the Department of Health.

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Personify Care's digital patient pathway project to go SA-wide

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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HHS finalizes 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By focusing on person-centered, inclusive design as the first of its federal health information technology principles, ASTP says the plan seeks to "strengthen individual's ability to securely access and use their own health information to take greater control over their own health.

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Singapore's iHiS taps Google Cloud, Accenture to drive healthcare innovation

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Moreover, it will empower them to come up with solutions that "[give] patients easier access to their health information and [offer] deeper insights to inform population health management programs and public health policies," Goh noted.

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Roundup: India's CoWIN to track all vax status and more briefs

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Together with Olympus Corporation, the project will evaluate the effectiveness of Cybernet Systems' EndoBRAIN-EYE software at Cho Ray Hospital and 108 Hospital. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals. The study follows similar projects done in India and Thailand over the past two years.

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Virtual care service expansions in Australia

Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2024

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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HIE pilot tackles emergency response data silos

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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How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2021

Now more hospitals and health systems are looking to expand their efforts beyond video visit-based virtual care, and push for expanded remote patient monitoring programs – up to and including the provision of acute care at home. They cleared the path for parity reimbursement during the public health emergency.

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Dozee bets on India's growing home healthcare market with new solution

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

What is new with the solution is it allows healthcare providers to monitor patients not just on beds, but also ambulatory patients within the hospital and those at home via a central command centre and caregivers' mobile app. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Quality Care Digital Health Medical devices Care Technology

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NHS trials AI-enabled software to make brain surgery safer

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

British startup Oxford Heartbeat designed the PreSize technology , which has been used at Leeds Teaching Hospitals and is due to be trialled in six other NHS trusts. In a study based on more than 250 real stenting procedures performed across seven hospitals, the tool had a precision rate of 96.75%. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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The virtual ward is on its way: how remote monitoring is changing the face of clinical care

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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Fortis Healthcare gets AI boost for mental health vertical

Healthcare It News

MAY 14, 2024

Fortis Healthcare, a publicly listed private hospital network from India, has introduced a new mental health service enabled by artificial intelligence. " Enterprise Taxonomy: AI Patient Access Population and Public Health Quality Care Analytics Care

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5G will power the next evolutionary stage of healthcare in APAC

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? Remote patient monitoring and connected ambulances cannot be done with Wi-Fi."

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National Healthcare Group eyes digital records for community care

Healthcare It News

JULY 28, 2024

Tan Tock Seng Hospital then rolled out the system the following year, becoming the first hospital in the cluster to go live with the integrated EMR system. Developed by Synapxe, the NGEMR is also live across the National University Hospital System cluster.

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South Metropolitan Health Service digitises its pre-surgery program

Healthcare It News

MARCH 6, 2024

WHY IT MATTERS SMHS, which provides hospital and community-based public health care services in southern metropolitan Perth, started the LifeFit SurgFit in 2020-2021 as a "holistic approach" to preparing patients for surgery.

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Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

The MIEP overburdens county and local jails financially and jeopardizes public health. 2628 would support states and counties in delivering quality health care. Inmates need more health care, with chronic disease rates among inmates being more than double the general public. Legislation like H.R. 3514 and S.2628

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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The Office of Healthcare Transformation under Singapore's Ministry of Health has tied up with the nation's three public healthcare clusters to scale their pilot home hospitalisation programmes. Should a patient's condition deteriorates, care escalation protocols, including transfer back to the hospital, could be initiated.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Early on in the pandemic, hospital executives saw telemedicine as a way to help close the maternal health gap , providing a number of pregnancy-related services, including lactation support, mental health support and at-home monitoring. THE LARGER TREND.

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The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By the late nineteenth century, North American public policy made use of large-scale isolated institutions, such as nursing homes, asylums, boarding homes, psychiatric hospitals, and group homes to provide services for those labeled as having disabilities. public health policy (e.g., public health policy (e.g.,

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Personal Crusades for Public Health

Rebuilding Trust in Public Health and Public Health Law

Trending Sources

Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

How hospitals should engage in the 'information war'

Hospital margins continue to stabilize but remain below pre-pandemic levels

South Korea's smart hospital concept: A focus on patients' need and experience

Roundup: Latrobe Regional Hospital turns to VR training and more briefs

Eyeing Europe's COVID-19 resurgence, AHA asks HHS to renew public health emergency

COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives, study calculates

Roundup: Digital well-being tools for farmers, hospital staff launched and more briefs

Thammasat University Hospital taps NEC Thailand to digitise elderly care

ONC drafts Federal Health IT Plan for 2024-2030, calls for public comment

Hospitals in Poor Rural Counties Face the Greatest Financial Threat from COVID

Korea to link health records of 8 million patients to MyHealthway

Digital at the core of a collaborative care model

CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge

Acute hospital care at home gets good grades from CMS research

COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

ONC says stakeholders can 'pick up and run' with new regs

InterSystems cloud integration service comes to NZ and more briefs

What should interoperability look like in eight years? ONC asked, you answered

Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Kaiser, Mayo, Medically Home found coalition to promote advanced hospital-at-home services

HIMSSCast: Predicting what's next for health IT, mobile tech and health system finances

$14M more for EMR implementation in Victoria and more briefs

Personify Care's digital patient pathway project to go SA-wide

HHS finalizes 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategy

Singapore's iHiS taps Google Cloud, Accenture to drive healthcare innovation

Roundup: India's CoWIN to track all vax status and more briefs

Virtual care service expansions in Australia

HIE pilot tackles emergency response data silos

How health systems should be preparing now for the future of hospital at home

Dozee bets on India's growing home healthcare market with new solution

NHS trials AI-enabled software to make brain surgery safer

The virtual ward is on its way: how remote monitoring is changing the face of clinical care

Fortis Healthcare gets AI boost for mental health vertical

5G will power the next evolutionary stage of healthcare in APAC

National Healthcare Group eyes digital records for community care

South Metropolitan Health Service digitises its pre-surgery program

Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy

Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

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