Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

Cloud Computing Network Infrastructure Population Health Telehealth Workforce The COVID-19 crisis has demanded innovative agility, relentlessly applied – proving again that information technology teams are crucial strategic partners for future goals. Mike Restuccia is chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Consumers were beginning to be empowered through self-service testing and signs of OTC devices possibly on the way. And last but not least, are we to believe that the delay between approval in August and the official beginning of OTC sales in October was due to Covid? category tags: hearing loss , hearables/hearing technology.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2020

"We’ve seen the undue burden and hardship these restrictions create during COVID-19, especially in communities hit hardest by the pandemic," said Skye Perryman, chief legal officer at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, which was a coplaintiff in the case. " she said.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

APRIL 26, 2020

Identifying which nursing homes had Covid-19 cases. Add to that, state-by-state, the National Guard is being brought in to disinfect nursing homes or assist with Covid-19 testing. Add to that, state-by-state, the National Guard is being brought in to disinfect nursing homes or assist with Covid-19 testing.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 19, 2020

is tracking technology innovations in the time of Covid-19 , noting the categories of innovation and the open calls for help in that category. Here’s telehealth – no requests for help at this time, here’s diagnostics (see Stanford, testing all 3 types of virus!) On the other hand, Health 2.0 and here’s home care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data. Region Tag: Europe/UK Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Riding the digital wave through COVID-19 Featured Decision Content:

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

Testing in nursing homes is beginning – note that the residents, not the staff, were tested in the Kirkland facility. Will there be test kits available to senior living communities everywhere to test staff so that they can be cleared to come in? category tags: senior living , social isolation , covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

Testing in nursing homes is beginning – note that the residents, not the staff, were tested in the Kirkland facility. Will there be test kits available to senior living communities everywhere to test staff so that they can be cleared to come in? category tags: senior living , social isolation , covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 15, 2020

Testing in nursing homes is beginning – note that the residents, not the staff, were tested in the Kirkland facility. Will there be test kits available to senior living communities everywhere to test staff so that they can be cleared to come in? category tags: senior living , social isolation , covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 31, 2020

And seniors (AARP) who are most likely NOT in nursing homes, demand that workers have adequate PPE , that the public be notified which nursing homes have cases of Covid-19, workers are striking at nursing homes , and so on. 65 is the new 85 – Covid-19 cultivates elements of ageism. Five older adult offerings in the time of Covid-19.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic boosted family interest in the use of technology to help older and frailer family members stay safer (and longer) in their own homes. However, during the Covid-19 pandemic, RPM was clearly one of the tactics used during Covid-19 to continue to treat home-bound patients remotely and help avoid trips to the hospital.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 4, 2020

But the Movie has so many points that are right-on, and specifically right-on in alignment with COVID-19. The in-real-life daily TV news actually over-dramatizes COVID-19 more. The Movie has some very obvious over-dramatized aspects, like the virus morphs on the timescale of days.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This theory has been tested within the healthcare industry over the last few years as the COVID-19 pandemic aligned with, and expedited, the retirement of many employees in the Baby Boomer generation. The following is a guest article by Scott Hondros, Vice President of Professional Services at CenTrak.

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GlobalMed

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The black market price tag of stolen protected health information (PHI) can go for $60 a record, compared to roughly $1 for a credit card or social security number. But the Covid-19 pandemic has forced nearly everyone in healthcare to reckon with both, thanks to two dynamics: The rapid adoption of telehealth solutions. SOC 2 Type II.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

To see all of the feature stories in the Burnout in the Age of COVID-19 series, click here. The COVID-19 pandemic essentially forced healthcare provider organizations, the government and payers to embrace telehealth as an essential way to enable physicians to see patients. Stressors from COVID-19 and virtual care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 2, 2020

A few weeks ago the World Health Organisation (WHO) commended the UAE for leading the way in COVID-19 by conducting the highest level of testing per million in the world, which is an effective strategy of keeping track of the virus, which is pertinent to knowing the necessary measures to take in combating the epidemic.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

JULY 15, 2020

Note the wave of headlines about Florida and Covid-19 virus spiking. Consider a report this week that some labs only reported positive cases and that 100% of those tested were positive (oops), caught first by a local TV station. What is happening with testing? As of today, the number tested positive is 301,810.

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

The ‘Nursing Homes in Crisis’ collection is about Covid-19 in 2020. Amid the outcry, the negative comments about bad management, bad physical design of the buildings, bad for-profit ownership, bad Covid-19 testing, etc., category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Why are people in nursing homes?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 16, 2021

But since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency, our organization has expanded its telehealth capabilities. To test this assumption, I surveyed my patients. The survey consisted of one question: Considering the current COVID-19 pandemic, would you prefer a virtual visit (video or phone) or an in-person/in-clinic visit?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 20, 2020

The ‘Nursing Homes in Crisis’ collection is about Covid-19 in 2020. Amid the outcry, the negative comments about bad management, bad physical design of the buildings, bad for-profit ownership, bad Covid-19 testing, etc., category tags: covid-19 , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF). Why are people in nursing homes?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This paper, dated August 2020, pointed out that this data could help prioritize efforts at COVID-19 testing and contact tracing—today, of course, we would add vaccinations. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. The CODE managers said that data sharing needs to be improved even within HHS itself.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I’ll be honest, it was refreshing to hear a President & Co-Founder of a healthcare IT company celebrating the dropping of the word “interoperability” from their tag line. And as COVID taught us, so much more…. And that’s where Bell places TECFA; it’s meaningful. The Time Is Right to Bring Everyone into the Folds via QHINs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies have elbowed their way into a seemingly flush market, while patient interest in telehealth has waxed and waned. It's been a busy few years for virtual care, to say the least. Now, many patients and providers are asking: What will telehealth look like five or ten years from now?

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Society for Participatory Medicine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

of our four-part series, we introduced Carlos, an ICU nurse treating COVID-19 patients. He struggles to manage COVID-19 and life outside of the hospital with his sister and mother. As we became acquainted with people like Carlos, we listened to the questions they asked about COVID-19. Who needs a COVID-19 test?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

AUGUST 26, 2020

Consider Israel, on the other hand … Meanwhile Israel’s population is 10 million people, recent startups focused on innovation for older adults during Covid-19 specifically. Audio personalization technology that includes a self-test protocol available on the user’s mobile device (Android or iOS) and conducted via headphones.

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