Aging in Place Technology Watch

JANUARY 15, 2025

115-406) and empower public health departments to implement effective dementia interventions in their communities. have at least one program that provides assistance to elderly individuals living outside of nursing homes. Medicaid Home Care Benefits for the Aging. As of March 2024, all 50 states and D.C.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2025

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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19 Labs

MAY 12, 2021

We're often asked why we're named 19Labs, and the reason is explained in this article The , 19Labs team would like to thank all nurses for their hard work this International Nurses Day. This seems like an odd question at first, but the answer is a lot closer to nursing than you might think. Empowering Nurses Through Telehealth.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In this video, you can hear about the technologies and regulations needed in LTPAC from Bill Charnetski, Executive Vice President, Health System Solutions and Government Affairs at PointClickCare. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2020

" Covered entities seeking to use audio or video communication tech to reach patients where they live "can use any non-public facing remote communication product that is available to communicate with patients," said the agency. ON THE RECORD. " Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2025

This technology system accelerates crucial medical intervention for stroke victims, explained Tetra Jenkins, a registered nurse and Stroke and Trauma Program Coordinator at WCRMC. Timing is critical to provide essential treatment within a three-to-four-hour window to save a stroke victim’s life or preserve their quality of life.

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KevinMD

JUNE 8, 2018

Recently, I shadowed a patient through a day procedure at an endoscopy center from the time that the nurse checked her weight to the time that she was discharged. The before/after factors that we don’t notice have a far-reaching impact on care. Let's call her Nancy. She was 82 years old. Your patients are rating you online: How to respond.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Walgreens announced appointment scheduling for the boosters, and CVS Health discussed the plans for the updated vaccine administration on their website as well. As Science magazine’s coverage of this public health event noted , “Omicron booster shots are coming — with lots of questions.”

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

A survey from VR training vendor UbiSim found 89% of nurses with access to VR training said it helped them better prepare for real-world scenarios in healthcare settings. Care access platform Kyruus Health launched Reach to help hospitals maintain accurate listings information across digital platforms.

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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. And some legislators do too.

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Mobile Health Matters

MAY 7, 2018

This week marks National Nurses Week in the U.S., both a celebration of the profession and an opportunity to educate the public about the role nurses play in healthcare and their communities. Nurses Driving Change. Nurses’ primary focus is on the quality of care, comfort and safety of their patients.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2021

From doctors to nurses, physician assistants and other licensed allied health human capital, our health care providers are in a world of hurt. But the public health crisis, Delta variant, and lack of universal precautions adopted by U.S. This was initiated with the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

In Gallup’s most recent poll on the most honest and ethical professions in America, nurses, doctors, pharmacists and dentists ranked in the top 5, with nurses topping the list. As I work on scenario planning for my forecast work on the impact of COVID-19 on the future of health care in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

In health care, these would be our honest-and-ethical front-line workers — nurses, physicians, and pharmacists, the latest Gallup Poll on the question learned (described here in Health Populi). where private sector organizations began to more visibly take on public health objectives and missions.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. adults are most satisfied with healthcare information they receive through nurses and physician’s assistants, as well as eye doctors, pharmacists, dentists, nurse practitioners, doctors, and dietitians/nutritionists.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

As grocery stores expand their footprints and services as health destinations, they are hiring specific professionals to support this mission: pharmacists, nutritionists, wellness counselors, and healthcare professionals like doctors, nurse practitioners, and nurses to staff on-site clinics. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2022

Hopefully the Congress and state legislatures will act soon to ensure the temporary reimbursement expansions for telemedicine will continue after the public health emergency ends. Telehealth solutions also can be used to share knowledge from experienced nurses.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 22, 2024

It ensures patients have medical coverage with a VRGS doctor who can answer their questions and discuss their condition, supported by an on-site nursing staff. South NSW Local Health District will be trialling the service at five initial sites in Bombala, Braidwood, Crookwell, Delegate and Yass from July, according to a media statement.

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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 20, 2022

The service virtually connects patients with non-life-threatening emergencies to nurses and doctors via video call. The additional funding for the VVED is part of the Victorian government's initiative to support the state health workers and patients amid a fresh outbreak caused by the emergence of new COVID-19 variants.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Shelley, a professor in the Department of Policy and Public Health Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health. But when you're one doctor with one nurse and maybe one receptionist," that cost can be difficult to take on – or even prohibitive.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Access to doctors and nurses through Urgent Care on the phone. With the home as health hub, a phenomenon reinforced by the public health crisis, Best Buy Health’s (BBH) 2018 vision is meeting the moment, like the old Wayne Gretzky metaphor of knowing where the hockey puck would go and being there to meet it.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 5, 2023

However, as the public health crisis alert has been downgraded following the drop in COVID-19 infections, providing telemedicine services is no longer permitted today in South Korea. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Telehealth Care Patient Access

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2019

Digital health could save public health services in England £7.5 Around a quarter (27 percent) of consultations via the app did not need to be handled by a GP and 41 percent could have been handed by another healthcare professional such as a pharmacist or nurse. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 20, 2023

are facing an increasing healthcare crisis due to shortages in healthcare providers and facilities, especially as the nursing shortage continues throughout the country. However, with the public health emergency recently coming to an end, many patients, health systems and healthcare providers have been left wondering what’s next for RPM.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I have become more bullish on Burn Awareness as I’ve come to learn more about the impact burns have on public, family, and children’s health globally. Burns are a global public health challenge, which I detailed here in Health Populi earlier this year. Meet Krissie.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The issue is expected to have a profound impact on the aged care sector as it is predicted to be competing with other nursing sectors to hire and retain between 20,000 to 40,000 available staff over the next two years. Sarah Dring, a clinical nurse consultant, shared with HealthcareIT News her experience with the new virtual service.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Along with telehealth, remote patient monitoring programs grew during the COVID-19 pandemic because federal rules gave providers the flexibility to use RPM for the duration of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 2, 2023

With the end of the public health emergency, DEA is proposing a rollback on flexibility for remote prescribing. If the DEA’s proposed rules become final, ATA warned in a statement , patients “will fall through the cracks, creating a significant and avoidable public health crisis.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 25, 2023

The company says that it aggregates a care team of nurses, doctors, pharmacists, coordinators and others and partners with payers, providers and employers. public health departments with implementing sexual health testing to reduce the incidence of rising sexually transmitted infections in their communities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

According to Donna Sherringham, executive director of Clinical Operations at GV Health, this partnership will enhance access to emergency health care for the community – the healthcare provider covers Shepparton, Rushworth and Tatura.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

concerned about state citizens’ public health in the era of COVID-19. voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives. The post Voting for Health in 2020 appeared first on HealthPopuli.com. Early voting via absentee and mail-in ballots has increased dramatically in many U.S.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

.” Molly and I covered a lot of ground here , starting with the key forces shaping and accelerating virtual care across the continuum.

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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.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2025

when fed up patients, families, physicians, nurses and health citizens all find their voices. At the same time, one of biggest challenges for changing health care in America today is that, in Toms words, we have to stop politicizing health. But she was fed up with a system that ignored her needs.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

The jobs least likely to be able to work from home, these Bureau of Labor Statistics demonstrate , including childcare workers, retail employees, cleaning staff, cooks and food servers, and nursing aides. ” .

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