Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 28, 2020

Lots of industry groups want to see the temporary government waivers enacted early on during the COVID-19 public health emergency – the ones enabling the vast expansion of telehealth and remote patient monitoring over the past four months – to be made permanent once the storm has subsided. WHY IT MATTERS.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2021

At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. Health care workforce training.

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MARCH 3, 2021

Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” ” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Keep an eye on the “S” in ESG for health care, along with E and G.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 30, 2020

"Much of this transformation is dependent on temporary flexibilities extended to health systems and providers that are limited to the duration of the COVID-19 public health emergency declaration," the letter read. THE LARGER TREND. Senate HELP Committee Chair Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.,

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MARCH 25, 2025

What does this mean for our health, well-being, and sense of community and connectivity? I’m preparing a new talk to give later this week to a global group of business people involved in high-cost health care. The convener has asked me to speak about health equity and social determinants of health.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

health care community is collectively embracing the concept of social determinants of health that have become so obvious in understanding the disparities of health outcomes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 24, 2025

We reached out to our talented Healthcare IT Today Community and asked them how can data collection and analysis be improved to better identify and address health inequities across different demographic groups? Timi Leslie, Executive Director at Connecting for Better Health Data sharing is critical for equitable access to healthcare.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 17, 2020

Russell Libby is the lead physician at Fairfax, Virginia, pediatric group practice and board member of the Physicians Foundation. ” The group practice also needed payer support to make sure it could get compensated for telehealth visits.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2025

With heart health now table stakes for wearable technology sensors, smartwatches mainstreaming for many medical and wellbeing tracking issues with more sensors embedded on the wrist (and on the hand within smartrings), health tracking is no longer relegated to an elite group of people affiliating with the Quantified Self movement.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Here’s a quick look at some of the health IT jobs we found: ICT/Security Healthcare Principal – HDR Director Health Information Management – Riverside Healthcare Medical Biller – AllSafe Medical Group Ob/Gyn Division Director Patient Safety – HCA Healthcare Technical Solutions Analyst (Clinical Research) – Flatiron (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. Samitivej and BNH Group of Hospitals operate under Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), the largest private hospital network in Thailand.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” While the AMA and many others are advocating for continued support of telehealth post-pandemic, healthcare providers and practice leaders should anticipate and prepare for a return to more standardized regulation after the public health emergency (PHE). Anticipated New CMS Rules for Telehealth. Staying Ahead of Change.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

Along with numerous industry groups, lawmakers have also been concerned that restrictions would result in a return to access barriers many patients experienced before the pandemic. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 17, 2020

A parable used in public health goes, if there is a group of people who’ve fallen into a river that need saving, the traditional treatment method would be to rescue them from drowning downstream.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 18, 2022

Concerns of fraud have dogged conversations around telehealth expansion beyond the public health emergency. Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that Physician Partners of America, along with its founder and former chief medical officer, have agreed to pay $24.5 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Over one-third had more referrals for their services, and 29% of therapists served more patients: By age group, 29% of therapists saw more adult patients 18 to 64 years of age. Health Populi’s Hot Points : Since well before the COVID-19 public health crisis, there has been a shortage of mental health providers in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 24, 2025

THE LARGER TREND Congress and telehealth industry groups have urged the DEA and HHS to jointly extend prescribing flexibilities allowed under the original COVID-19 public health emergency since it was initially set to expire.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Parenting & Pediatrics Amid a parenting mental health crisis recently recognized as a public health issue by the U.S. This brings Maven’s total funding to more than $425 million. “The next decade is about transformation. To learn more about Maven, visit us at mavenclinic.com.

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APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. TripleTree is an investment bank that has advised health care transactions since 1997.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) are a worldwide challenge of epidemic, public health proportions. The World Health Organization recognizes that HAIs are a problem in both wealthy and developing countries. While the Leapfrog Group has recognized that U.S. One in 25 patients in U.S.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The study was researched and written up by a team of COVID-19 National Preparedness Collaborators, led by Dr. Joseph Dieleman of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a group that has been long-tracking the coronavirus since its emergence.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

About Ty Greenhalgh Ty Greenhalgh is the Industry Principal of Healthcare at Claroty and an “Ambassador” with the HHS 405(d) Task Group, contributing to the development of HPH-CPGs and the Landscape Analysis. Additionally, he serves as a member of the HSCC Cyber Working Group.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

.” Five years later, Edelman has fielded a survey to determine what some 4,000 health citizens living in 4 countries (Brazil, India, the UK, and the U.S.) are thinking and feeling about life after COVID-19 — and especially where their trust lies in institutions, fellow citizens, and future public health emergencies.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 8, 2025

The Principal Healthcare Group has developed a HIS that can be connected to most AI software. It is likely we will also see an increase in dynamic and interactive population health dashboards for general practices subscribed to NQPHN’s data program. Responses have been corrected and edited for accuracy and brevity.

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AUGUST 10, 2022

. “Climatic hazards reveal(s) the magnitude of the human health threat posed by climate change and the urgent need for aggressive actives to mitigate GHG emissions,” the report insists. ” This approach speaks to the importance of interconnected health communities, which Deloitte further fleshes out in its report.

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JANUARY 17, 2023

While the official end of the public health emergency (PHE) was extended to April 2023 for many federal government programs, two federal actions will further extend the deadline for federal Medicare reimbursement until at least December 31, 2024.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

CHA launched a portal on the act of love , featuring lots of science-based articles and features to bolster health literacy on the topic of vaccines, vaccinations, and public health. Here’s a view on that wonderful colorful video… CHA represents the largest group of not-for-profit health care providers in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 8, 2022

In this informative podcast, Johnson talks about the hybrid model that may be the future of telehealth, what will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery, current telehealth policy priorities and challenges, and the work of her ATA Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The American Telemedicine Association, the Connected Health Initiative and other industry groups issued a letter to Congress on Friday urging legislators to extend temporary telehealth flexibilities until the end of 2021. That flexibility, in turn, shed light on how arbitrary some of those restrictions were.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 27, 2024

The following is a guest article by Cindy Jordan, Co-Founder and CEO at Pyx Health Last year, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy identified loneliness as a “ profound public health threat ” that can be just as hazardous to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients. What’s unclear is how public policy and regulation can/will meet this moment.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the digital health stakeholder community is convening this week at VIVE in Los Angeles to share innovations in health tech, NABIP has assembled health insurance leaders in Washington, DC, for the 2024 Capital Conference to focus on major health reform issues that are top-of-mind for health care payors — which in today’s U.S.

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MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Its one of my favorite chapters in Health Care Nation as Tom connects the social movement dots starting with Margaret Mead (talking about that small group of thoughtful, committed citizens that can change the world,) to Edward Lorenzs chaos theory also known as The Butterfly Effect.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 27, 2021

If they don't act before the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency, the groups said, Medicare beneficiaries "will lose access to virtual care options which have become a lifeline to many." "Unfortunately, this progress is in jeopardy," they wrote.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Deloitte’s Global CEO, addressed four key stakeholder groups for resilience and sustainability: our people/workforce, organizations, society, and leadership’s ability to lead. This last group, shareholders, has historically been Job #1 of the corporation in terms of most important stakeholders to serve.

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