Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Biden’s statement, which divided the public health community and the public, has wide-reaching implications for the fate of connected health and vital telehealth services. Department of Health and Human Services Alex Azar signed the first Public Health Emergency declaration , declaring COVID-19 a national emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

House of Representatives passed by a 416-12 vote the Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID–19 Act of 2021 , which would extend the telehealth flexibilities put in place during the public health emergency until the end of 2024. Policy and reimbursement consultancy Applied Policy hired Steven Johnson as Health Policy Director.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

We cannot expect even the most well-intentioned health care stakeholder organizations alone to provide the sole prescription to the epidemic of health disparities and inequities.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

It feels like the vision industry is at an inflection point at this moment, I intuited during yesterday’s convening of Decoding the Consumer: The new science of customer behavior, the theme of the 13th annual global leadership summit hosted by Vision Monday, a program of Jobson Medical Information which is part of the WebMD family.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Health Populi

APRIL 8, 2021

health care system that existed before the public health crisis. What lessons can be learned from the COVID-19 stress-test to build American health care back better? health system, including 637 health systems, two-thirds of which are not-for-profit and most operating in one state.

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Henry Kotula

MARCH 16, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched this initiative — called the National Health Security Preparedness Index — in 2013 to comprehensively evaluate the nation’s readiness for public health emergencies. points out of a possible 10, above the national average.

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Docnotes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

A provocative tweet can have broad impact, can demonstrate thought leadership, and can generate conversations that make the world a better place. people have even lost their jobs due to things they have posted online. But there’s a positive side too. Message: be a careful but provocative tweeter. If you choose to use this medium.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

.” The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) are the two organizations coming together to address an inequity that’s been made so obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic: connectivity, software, and hardware access for people to work, live, educate, and access health care from home.

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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). Complementing this penalty, the Office of Health Policy within HHS released a report measuring the benefits of addressing SDoH in healthcare.

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Henry Kotula

APRIL 21, 2020

‘We will absolutely have more of these.’ ’ The billionaire philanthropist predicts a timeline for going back to normal. Business Insider spoke with Melinda Gates about COVID-19, the prospect and timeline of making an effective vaccine, and how the world will be permanently changed by the coronavirus.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 5, 2021

health care system. Among the ten awards, I’ve selected three to highlight to synthesize one systemic issue that has plagued America’s response to the public health crisis. We needed leadership and a plan,” Dr. Berwick commented on the situation. “The U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2019

Know that such trust also extends to scientists, the military, police officers, and public school principals, where people with higher levels of trust have faith in these key leadership groups more than people who have lower levels of trust. At the bottom of that trust-list across all levels of trust?

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

states expanding access to these methods for the 2020 election, where these options have been made available due to the pandemic and electoral leadership throughout the U.S. concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. Early voting via absentee and mail-in ballots has increased dramatically in many U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 29, 2019

Welcome to health politics in America as of March 2019, according to The Public and High U.S. Health Care Costs , a poll conducted by POLITICO and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2020

But most Americans also get the politicized nature of the coronavirus and say they’re less likely to vote for President Trump in November based on his handling of the public health threat, according to a just-released survey from Protect Our Care fielded by Public Policy Polling. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan, helming their leadership posts in the Senate and the House, respectively, had the President’s back on this from the start. It’s been a concept that, largely, only health policy wonks (like me) talked much about. What a difference a year makes. In their poll of 487 likely U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Health care pocketbook issues rank first and second place for Americans in these months leading up to the 2020 Presidential election, according to research from POLITICO and the Harvard Chan School of Public Health published on 19th February 2020. hit this stratospheric deficit under GOP leadership inside the Beltway.

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the past several weeks, two realities face the health care industry and financial services: the last of personal protective equipment and ventilators, and the precipitous decline in the stock market. health citizens. In the immediate moment in the U.S., We find ourselves in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2019

Harris and VP Biden on race, busing, and segregation — which in the larger public health context continue to have a direct impact on health equity, health disparities, and socio-economic status. Finally…Where was the mass call-out for mental health as part of America’s public health?

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