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NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Announced in a meeting with general practitioners led by the Chinese Medical Association, the said programme will be developed in partnership with major hospitals and the National Foundation for Australia-China Relations. It also facilitates referrals, hospital appointment bookings, nursing care, and post-discharge follow-ups.

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

During the pandemic, hospitals and health systems saw how quickly digital health and virtual care programs could be rolled out. Follow Bill's HIT coverage on LinkedIn: Bill Siwicki Email him: bsiwicki@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Care

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DECEMBER 22, 2024

South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare has announced 2.5 million) funding to launch a network of remote ICUs in regional hospitals next year. The control centre will also enable collaboration among hospitals when necessary, the MOHW shared. billion won ($1.7

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

MedStar Health announced Monday that its acute care at home is now available to Baltimore patients of its Franklin Square Medical Center, Good Samaritan, Harbor and Union Memorial hospitals.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Made possible through pilot funding and informed by user experience research, Mayo Clinic's Clinical Trials Beyond Walls initiative leverages telehealth, remote assessments and other hospital-at-home innovations to bring all or some trial aspects into patient homes or a local community.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2025

Telemedicine brings the specialists to the patient WCRMC is a rural hospital located in Washington County, Georgia. The technology: mobile decentralized paramedicine The WCRMC hospital ED connects to EMS staff through rugged medical tablets mounted within the ambulances.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Thai Ministry of Public Health Collaboration Google is also collaborating with the Thai Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Medical Services (DMS) to implement the AI model in public sector hospitals.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: ICT/Security Healthcare Principal – HDR Director Health Information Management – Riverside Healthcare Medical Biller – AllSafe Medical Group Ob/Gyn Division Director Patient Safety – HCA Healthcare Technical Solutions Analyst (Clinical Research) – Flatiron (..)

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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APRIL 11, 2025

– The study was a collaborative effort involving several organizations, including KLAS Research, Censinet, the American Hospital Association, Health-ISAC, the Healthcare & Public Health Sector Coordinating Councils, and the Scottsdale Institute. HPH CPGs Analysis: Similar to the NIST CSF 2.0

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

The past year saw varying levels of digital transformations going around the health systems in Asia-Pacific. It has increasingly become evident that digitalisation – from nationwide networks down to individual hospitals – has become the rule in a post-pandemic world.

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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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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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