Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 12, 2021

"COVID-19 has changed not only the way we live, but the way healthcare providers support their patients, especially in regard to mental health," said Cuomo in a statement. Cuomo's proposal would make permanent many flexibilities that are currently in place during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 23, 2020

As patients returned to in-person, brick-and-mortar health care settings after the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic, they re-enter the health care system with heightened consumer expectations, according to the Beryl Institute – Ipsos Px Pulse report, Consumer Perspectives on Patient Experience in the U.S. early this year.

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Health Populi

JUNE 16, 2021

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues. Deloitte found that U.S.

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Connected Health Initiative

APRIL 8, 2020

The current pandemic illustrates the need for information sharing among patients, providers, and public health officials to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2020

The 21st Century Cures Act emphasizes patients’ control of personal health information. ONC rules issues in March 2020 called for more patient-facing health tools and apps to bolster health consumer engagement and empowerment. Digital literacy combines with health literacy to bolster patient engagement.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Now that the threat of the COVID pandemic is subsiding, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is casting a wide net to tighten security measures related to telehealth under the HHS roof, which includes OCR and CMS. GAO Recommendations for OCR. GAO Recommendations for CME Telehealth Agencies.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Now that the threat of the COVID pandemic is subsiding, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is casting a wide net to tighten security measures related to telehealth under the HHS roof, which includes OCR and CMS. GAO Recommendations for OCR. GAO Recommendations for CMS Telehealth Agencies.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Now that the threat of the COVID pandemic is subsiding, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is casting a wide net to tighten security measures related to telehealth under the HHS roof, which includes OCR and CMS. GAO Recommendations for OCR. GAO Recommendations for CMS Telehealth Agencies .

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

AUGUST 31, 2022

Politico’s recent investigation revealed a record number of cyber security breaches in healthcare, exposing the protected health information of an estimated 50 million people. The medical faculty at the University of Vermont lost $54 million in a cyber-attack in October 2020. Healthcare data is highly sought after.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MAY 27, 2015

There is much talk on the blogs about the USA government trepidation around Health Information Exchange interoperability. We will keep you up to date with WISHIN activities, news on health information exchange (HIE) and new product developments. per patient per year.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

. "Rwanda’s eHealth Strategic Plan for 2016–2020 is the key driver to economic growth and to improving the lives of people. Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data."

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 28, 2023

Mimi Winsberg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer at Brightside Health We have been in an uncertain time for regulation around telemedicine, and there are a few key trends to watch. The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

” For this report, PwC’s Health Research Institute surveyed 2,511 American consumers, 128 health plan executives, 153 healthcare provider organization executives, and 124 pharmaceutical and life sciences executives in August and September 2020. Health portfolios reshaped for growth.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

OCTOBER 4, 2021

With the need to communicate regularly about public health information as well as how to access care, these two new virtual spaces have been learning how to interact and complement each other. The session outlined successful and unsuccessful interactions between the Cambridge Health Alliance and partner community organizations.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 21, 2020

Deloitte’s latest wave of health care consumer market research updates the COVID-19 impacts on the U.S. health care landscape and asks the question in the study report’s title: “Are consumers already living the future of health?” Health Consumers, Deloitte polled 4,522 U.S.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

On April 22, 2020, HHS announced specifics concerning the next round of the $100 billion Provider Relief Fund payments, some of which should reach provider bank accounts today. By Kim Stanger. As with the initial $30 billion, the additional payments come with more strings attached. Additional Payments. General allocation.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

APRIL 24, 2020

On April 22, 2020, HHS announced specifics concerning the next round of the $100 billion Provider Relief Fund payments, some of which should reach provider bank accounts today. By Kim Stanger. As with the initial $30 billion, the additional payments come with more strings attached. Additional Payments. General allocation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

health care spending will grow to 20% of the national economy by 2028, forecasted in projections pre-published in the April 2020 issue of Health Affairs, National Health Expenditure (NHE) Projections. Hospital care spending, the largest single component in national health spending, is estimated at $1.3

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE). That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

You would have fought through the civil-liberties issues of people sharing their health information willingly or not willingly. Am I willing to share my health data so that you know if I got it? Preparing for the next epidemic is a whole different conversation. You’d have tests available from the get-go.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 24, 2022

As described in the latest ONC Standards Bulletin , v3 expands the USCDI from 52 data elements in 16 classes to 94 elements in 19 classes, with additions focusing on equity, public health, and documenting health insurance coverage.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 11, 2023

Leveraging technology to modernize, digitize, connect, and consolidate data will prove critical to the nation’s ability to address major public health needs both present and future, including preparing for the next global health crisis. Ashley Basile, Chief Product Officer at Diameter Health (now part of Availity).

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Henry Kotula

JULY 28, 2023

The series covered broad issues related to the healthcare workforce, economy, and health policy, and highlighted internal industry changes and trends in service delivery, quality, and equity. The most notable impact of the non-renewal of the PHE was the end of continuous Medicaid public health insurance coverage.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2020

District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census is another example of how institutions, and public ones at that, can try to mis-use data or mis-appropriate data. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. s, birthday. .

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 31, 2023

G” through her public health-informed broadcasts in the Miami media market during the pandemic. The phenomenon of medical mis-information accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, normalizing weird anti-science and culminating in the rejection among many U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 16, 2023

District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census is another example of how institutions, and public ones at that, can try to mis-use data or mis-appropriate data. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2024

District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census is another example of how institutions, and public ones at that, can try to mis-use data or mis-appropriate data. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census is another example of how institutions, and public ones at that, can try to mis-use data or mis-appropriate data. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

District judge ruling against the Trump administration’s decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. Census is another example of how institutions, and public ones at that, can try to mis-use data or mis-appropriate data. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. s, birthday.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

During a brief speech Tuesday evening at the HLTH VRTL 2020 conference, Azar highlighted the efforts of HHS to collect data concerning COVID-19 patients and predicted that patients will see telehealth as "a durable and desirable part of their healthcare" in the long term.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In 2020, as voting commences in-person tomorrow on 3 rd November, U.S. Health is translating across all definitions for U.S. voters in November 2020: for health care and physical health, financial health, mental health, and societal health. Issue #2 for 2018 voters was the economy. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2019

Americans most-trust their doctors, their banks, and their hospitals to protect their personal information. I pose, prompted by this month’s survey from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health on data privacy and e-cigarettes. Are people clear-headed about this perception?

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