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Broadband expansion, $62M for ONC among pandemic relief package provisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

billion toward strengthening Internet infrastructure in rural and tribal areas and $65 million to map which parts of the country still need broadband access, according to an analysis from The Washington Post. The provisions also included a move to end surprise medical billing through arbitration, which has sparked both support and resistance.

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Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Healthcare IT Today

With the end of the public health emergency, DEA is proposing a rollback on flexibility for remote prescribing. If the DEA’s proposed rules become final, ATA warned in a statement , patients “will fall through the cracks, creating a significant and avoidable public health crisis.”

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TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Health Populi

TransUnion has been tracking consumer-level effects on a weekly basis, and today in Health Populi with 3 mm+ claims filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, I wanted to share TU’s latest analysis of U.S. consumers’ financial health in the COVID-19 pandemic. adults the week of 27 April 2020.

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Financial Insecurity Among U.S. Workers Will Worsen in the Pandemic ? Especially for Women

Health Populi

The reasons people would make early withdrawals from their retirement funds include dealing with an unexpected expense (for at least one-half of workers across all generations); and, paying medical bills, for roughly one-in-five workers cross age, among other financial obligations.

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Wistful Thinking: The National Health Spending Forecast In a Land Without COVID-19

Health Populi

.” These factors come out of the 2019 Medicare Trustees Report and include but aren’t limited to tax policy, the state of insurance marketplaces, and employer-sponsored health insurance assumptions. Others of us who need to are having trouble accessing our health records.

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Does Amazon have answers for the future of the NHS?

Lloyd Price

Why Amazon is moving into health Few doubt new digital technologies have roles to play in the huge challenges healthcare systems are facing. He is not alone in his analysis. However, Matthew Honeyman, of health thinktank the King’s Fund, says those primarily interested in cutting costs shouldn’t expect quick gains.

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Health, Wealth & COVID-19 – My Conversation with Jeanne Pinder & Carium, in Charts

Health Populi

She began to build a network of other journalists, each a node in a network to crowdsource readers’-patients’ medical bills in local markets. Jeanne founded ClearHealthCosts nearly ten years ago, having worked as a journalist with the New York Times and other media.