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Connected 'smart' communities will be a key part of 21st century healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The prevalence ( if not ubiquity ) of broadband, combined with fast-advancing robotics, ingestible technologies and wearable sensors as thin and lightweight as temporary tattoos – to name just a few recent innovations – are set to transform "medical services, public health, social services.

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

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In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. It’s there to protect us from evildoers. After The Jungle was published. Sometimes they were not.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Unfortunately, despite this good news, there are still major technological and logistic hurdles between now and us all meeting up at HIMSS 2021 like “Wow, what a year that was, huh?”. Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

Here goes: the front-loading of the DSRIP program caused dollars to go to PPS sponsors for setting up the program and for checking boxes (literally – “we had a meeting with so-and-so”) to satisfy reporting requirements and subsequent payments. Investments in Social Determinant of Health Networks (SDHNs) Development and Performance.

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Building the Future through CMS eHealth

CMS.gov

Over the next several months, the Office of E-Health Standards and Services will take an active role in engaging physicians, provider associations, payors, and technology developers to identify ways to meet the challenges they face. This is only the first of many steps we plan to take to help providers.

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