Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

They also point out that abortion via telemedicine is illegal in 19 states, and that 32 states require abortion medication to only be administered via physicians (as opposed to nurse practitioners or midwives). Reinstated rules could, for example, make insurance coverage for abortion via telemedicine, which is already limited, less available.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 30, 2020

"Of course, all that changed in March," said Cesar Egurrola, lead clinical coordinator at Petersen. For injections, the current procedure is to set up nursing visits within the brick-and-mortar clinic. By renewing their prescription, he said, "You're promoting their own health, but also public health."

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2021

For years, Dr. Mariea Snell, a telehealth clinician at the Maven Clinic and assistant director of the Online Doctor of Nursing Practice Program at Maryville University, worked in an inner-city public health clinic. It offers access to doctors, nurse practitioners, nutritionists, mental health providers and many other resources.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2021

In order to safely care for patients and provide additional safeguards for clinical staff, Yale New Haven Health had three clear needs to address: Rapidly expand the tele-ICU services to support a ballooning ICU census. " Challenges for physicians and nurses. Scott Sussman, Yale New Haven Health. " Dr. L.

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Redox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

All general acute care hospitals, physician organizations, medical groups, skilled nursing facilities, health service plans and disability insurers, Medi-Cal managed care plans, clinical laboratories, and acute psychiatrist hospitals were required to sign the CalHHS data sharing agreement (DSA) by January 2023. Who must participate?

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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). One of the resulting papers lists a large number of public sources for SDoH data (pages 26-30).

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 10, 2023

Practitioners of all healthcare professions will be impacted by the upcoming end of the public health emergency (PHE). They include the following: If my client has a residence in my state of licensure, is it still going to be ok for me to work with them after the end of the COVID public health emergency?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

"My career has been about helping people live healthy lives," Levine told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. "As the assistant secretary for health, I would be committed each day to helping the people of our nation and improving our public health."

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Beyond Telehealth

JUNE 9, 2021

Will virtual visits be reimbursed after the public health emergency ends? Of course, the reality is that we are looking back at this last year and asking ourselves what will the future look like in the practice of medicine. There are more questions than answers as we address the continuum of care of our patients.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

AUGUST 10, 2021

I had thought of him as a secondary character, someone to open the door for the hospice nurse. But his continued deterioration over the course of the film was impossible to ignore. Many caregivers have told me that simply having their physicians or nurses acknowledge these issues makes them feel empowered and less alone.

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Health Populi

APRIL 24, 2018

At the same time, Colombia resolved a 50-year civil war-type conflict, La Violencia, in 2016, leaving the nation scarred physically and mentally to deal with post-traumatic stress and a public health crisis for mental health. The Affordable Care Act and health insurance exchanges were in chaos, and who to turn to?

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Aging in Place Technology Watch

MAY 26, 2022

Home care companies, senior living companies, skilled nursing facilities are all desperate for workers to address this increasingly overwhelming market. Telehealth vs. in-person: the Covid-19 public health emergency declaration to reimburse doctors for providing telehealth services for Medicare recipients has been repeatedly renewed.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Practitioners of all healthcare professions will be impacted by the upcoming end of the public health emergency (PHE). They include the following: If my client has a residence in my state of licensure, is it still going to be ok for me to work with them after the end of the COVID public health emergency?

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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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Telebehavioral Health Institute

APRIL 26, 2023

Below is a plain English summary, and check with your attorney if you have questions: Telehealth means the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of patients’ health care.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 29, 2023

Practitioners of all healthcare professionals will be impacted by the upcoming end of the public health emergency (PHE). They include the following: If my client has a residence in my state of licensure, is it still going to be ok for me to work with them after the end of the COVID public health emergency?

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Digital Health Wire

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

During my time as a physician, I saw first hand how difficult it was to find information for optimizing a prescription, and that we’re also facing a huge public health problem due to people dying from avoidable medication errors. Those are the problems we’re aiming to solve.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 13, 2023

On another front, telepsychiatry keeps gaining ground in the post-public health emergency landscape. Of course, the list goes on and on. Remote mental health professionals can use on-demand telepsychiatry to evaluate patients, review collateral information, speak with family members, and consult with other caregivers.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 10, 2023

One solution to this deadly problem , according to public health advocates, combines modern information technology with an effective form of addiction treatment. Thanks to the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) declaration, telehealth use skyrocketed during the pandemic. That’s why we need healthcare regulations.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

Below is a plain English summary, and check with your attorney if you have questions: Telehealth means the mode of delivering health care services and public health via information and communication technologies to facilitate the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of patients’ health care.

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Insulin Nation

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

The famous physician was somewhat of an anachronism, as he was interested in the public health dimensions of diabetes long before the rest of the medical community. In some of these cases, he did consider the patient’s financial means when deciding on the course of treatment, as he thought it dangerous to abruptly stop the therapy.

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Insulin Nation

APRIL 1, 2016

We recently came across a sobering fact from a 2012 Yale School of Public Health study : children with diabetes have a six percent higher risk of dropping out than the average population, according to two economic researchers. The study was originally published in the journal Health Affairs. It can create a vicious cycle.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 19, 2020

Instead, a neurologist would assess the patient on a mobile screen from far away, with local nursing staff and doctors aiding him or her. Physical exams are the bedrock of how doctors and nurses assess patients. Of course, in-person visits will still be necessary in many cases. I had been skeptical of telemedicine going in.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Beyond that, said Wolf, HIMSS has been working with public health agencies around the world to help ensure that "organizations like the CDC and even in the EU have the proper backend systems and data environments, working with the WHO on their data strategy. This is what we're after. And it's been a very busy time for us."

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New Age Healthcare

MARCH 23, 2020

However, India does recognize the imminent need of having more trained doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals (HCP) to boost the existing healthcare system. Here are some analytics and digital tools that are available today to track the course of Corona Virus). of state GDP.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 31, 2020

From nurses to retail salespeople, workers are walking off the job and facing retribution for speaking out. And so Laura Moreno, a nurse in Oklahoma City, wanted to protect them — as well as herself and her 12-year-old daughter, who has asthma and a thyroid condition. She could wear her protective mask while seeing her patients.

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Digital Leaders HealthTech

APRIL 27, 2020

Bloomberg Philanthropies is virtually convening experts in public health and City leadership to help cities respond to the Coronavirus. plans, strategies, policies) that are (a) designed specifically as a reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak or (b) designed to face other health emergencies such as sanitary crises or epidemics.

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Insulin Nation

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Also, many Canadian schools only employ part-time public health nurses who come in for services like immunizations, meaning they aren’t nearby for daily testing or in case of emergencies. Even some of those policies fall short. For example, not all make it clear who will administer insulin during the school day.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Meghan Schaeffer, National Public Health Advisor & Epidemiologist at SAS Forecasting and modeling are rapidly becoming the cornerstone of public health work, but government needs help. Enter academia. Both students and educators are looking for ways to improve the traditional workflows of the classroom.

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Health Populi

JUNE 13, 2022

Following the Uvalde, Texas, school shootings, many healthcare advocacy organizations, professional societies, and health system executives came out loud, clear, and assertive about the role of guns in public health and impact on the health system. As physicians, our mission is to heal and to maintain health.

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Connected Health Initiative

JUNE 24, 2020

In this blog post, we will explore the three key challenges that previously limited the impact of connected health technologies, the myriad of temporary policy changes recently made to address the COVID-19 public health emergency, and the opportunities and challenges that still remain.

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SightCall

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Of course this was only a vision of what was possible, but it was the beginning of the thinking behind telemedicine. The Department of Health and Human Services, NASA, Public Health Service, and Department of Defense were all supportive of new technology and some were actively involved in furthering research into the field.

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Henry Kotula

JULY 27, 2020

Virtual care can’t replace in-person care, of course, and some patients and doctors will prefer face-to-face visits. Doctors, nurses and other front-line employees are in incredibly stressful work environments. Nurses have reported fearing for their safety among PPE shortages and alleged lapses in protocol.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Over the course of the past year, telehealth has at long last burst its way into the mainstream thanks to the demands of COVID-19. Friestad of Avera Health has had some important takeaways from the trend toward virtual care. Relying on telemedicine. "Telehealth is truly now embedded in our future.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

I’ve cut/pasted selected sentences from the DOH document to make it easy to follow here – but (of course) the full document has more detail/explanation. Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Elsewhere? Well, this seems awfully complicated.

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

The term “telehealth services” does not include audio in isolation without access to and review of the patient’s medical records, electronic mail messages that are not compliant with the health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA), or facsimile transmissions. . § 54-5703(6)). 54-5703(6)).

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Health Law Blog | Telehealth

AUGUST 31, 2020

The term “telehealth services” does not include audio in isolation without access to and review of the patient’s medical records, electronic mail messages that are not compliant with the health insurance portability and accountability act (HIPAA), or facsimile transmissions. . § 54-5703(6)). 54-5703(6)).

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