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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before joining Geisinger, she served as Pennsylvania’s secretary of health, where she developed an innovative payment and delivery model for rural hospitals. Before that she served as director of the State Innovation Models Initiative at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. CIO, Delaware Valley Community Health.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). But unfortunately for us, ubiquity is only part of the story, as this particular function (like many public health apparatus) has withered away in recent years. Meaningful Use Stage 2 in 2012, and made immunization reporting mandatory unless a state had no registry.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

In addition to offering a generous employee benefits package, the hospital collaborated with the Massachusetts Nursing Association — its RNs’ collective bargaining arm — to offer employees up to $2,000 in incentives for maintaining their health. Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016.