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Budget 2024: Private hospitals tapped to provide psychiatric telehealth amid crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Australian government claims it has been committed to addressing the supply and demand crisis in the sector by pursuing reforms and making significant investments in both workforce training and retention and filling gaps in and raising mental healthcare access. It will be implemented initially over the next two years starting in November.

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Tech and the future of care work – five research midpoint observations

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The cost of hospitalization of a Medicare patient, for example, is around $13,600. Efforts are underway to recruit and train CNAs , offer them more respect , higher pay and a path to career growth. Consider VA Telehealth and DigitalVA. Staffing shortages drive innovation in care work.

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Reactions to the Ascension Healthcare Ransomware Attack and Suggestions for Healthcare Organizations

Healthcare IT Today

Department of Justice should step up enforcement of the False Claims Act against medical providers who accept Medicare and Medicaid payments but fail to implement a reasonable level of cybersecurity. Conduct cybersecurity training for employees. Doing so raises awareness about phishing scams and other common attack vectors.

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Upcoming Healthcare Regulations and Their Impact on Healthcare IT

Healthcare IT Today

Many hospitals, health systems, and health plans still don’t have employees trained and don’t have the proper policies, procedures, and tech tools in place to be compliant, even with the two years of runway that was provided by legislators. cut to physicians who treat the country’s most vulnerable patients through Medicare.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

In 2016, BayCare spent $346 million on community benefits, including pet insurance, personal training services and child care. Cleveland Clinic offers employees leadership training, in-house education programs and tuition reimbursement for career advancement. Additionally, Tampa Bay Times named the health system a Top Workplace.

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A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Louis, nestled among locust, elm and sweetgum trees, the Mercy Virtual Care Center has a lot in common with other hospitals. A visit to the hushed carrels and blinking monitors is a glimpse into a future in which hospital systems are paid more when their patients are healthy, not sick. Located off a superhighway exit in suburban St.

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