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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

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To help out, we reached out to our amazing Healthcare IT Today Community to see which healthcare regulations they foresee having a big impact on healthcare IT. The No Surprises Act was signed into law in 2020 and took effect last year. The following is what they had to say.

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Digital from the start: New medical campus to rise in Singapore's east

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To be located next to the downtown line of the Bedok North MRT station, the Eastern General Hospital (EGH) Campus comprises the Eastern General Hospital and Eastern Community Hospital. It will provide a range of emergency, inpatient, and outpatient care services, as well as continuing and rehabilitative care services.

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Telestroke service reaches rural NSW faster than the metro

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The NSW Telestroke Service has been fully rolled out across New South Wales, transforming healthcare in rural and regional communities. This life-saving service connects patients with a network of specialist stroke doctors via video consultation, managed by Prince of Wales Hospital. billion in direct financial impact.

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Hospital IT leaders talk lessons learned from a tough pandemic year

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Healthcare executives up and down the line have learned many valuable lessons from their experiences this past year. Eric Jimenez, CIO at Artesia General Hospital in Artesia, New Mexico. "In the six years prior to the pandemic, we slowly were shifting healthcare IT at AGH," he reported.

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Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration

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Now imagine that business is a hospital. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. On October 27, 2020, Sky Lakes Medical Center went dark. The ransomware attack that befell Sky Lakes in 2020 was brutal, but it could have been devastating and deadly.

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Automation In Rural Health: It Should No Longer Be An Afterthought

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In Q1 2022, the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond found that hospitals across the nation have 105,000 fewer workers than in February 2020, a roughly 2% decline. Rural providers especially feel the pinch, as medical centers often have trouble attracting the talent they need, and many hospitals are increasingly closing their doors.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

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Editor’s Note: This feature story initially was published on May 6, 2020. Hospitals across the nation are using connected health and RPM to great effect during the pandemic. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. It is being updated regularly with more vendors. And the list will continue to be updated over time.