Healthcare It News

JANUARY 19, 2022

Maimonides Medical Center is an academic medical center located in Brooklyn, New York. In 2018, Maimonides' leadership established digital health as a strategic priority for the medical center. " Rob Cimino, Maimonides Medical Center. THE PROBLEM.

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NASHP

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated rising mental health needs among children and youth. In addition to experiencing the human cost and social isolation brought upon by COVID-19, many children have lacked consistent time in classrooms. The COVID-19 pandemic has only amplified these decade-long trends.

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NASHP

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

She is the manager of family caregiver support and lifespan respite programs at the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ (DHS) Bureau of Aging and Disability Resources and Office on Aging and a newly sworn-in member of the RAISE Family Caregiving Advisory Council. How is caregiving incorporated into Wisconsin’s 2023–2025 State Aging Plan?

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2024

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). – This collaboration will leverage Truveta’s vast repository of real-world healthcare data to empower CDC researchers in tackling pressing public health challenges, including COVID-19 , maternal health, and pediatric care. ”

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Even in urban centers where there are shortages of specialists. Although the digital divide existed long before 2020, the shift to virtual work, school and healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic deepened the issue even further and exposed just how vulnerable millions of Americans are when it comes to connectivity and digital access.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 2, 2022

The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center built a dashboard to estimate the environmental impact of the medical facility's telehealth offerings. By examining the reduced travel enabled by virtual care, the center's IT and sustainability team calculated gasoline usage and carbon emissions.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 17, 2024

What You Should Know: – Ophelia , a leading provider of virtual care for opioid use disorder (OUD), has been designated as a Center of Excellence (COE) by Pennsylvania’s Department of Human Services. The COVID-19 pandemic and the rise of synthetic opioids like fentanyl have further exacerbated overdose deaths in recent years.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2024

In the current healthcare landscape, hospitals and health systems are navigating challenging times, with financial pressures exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic's lasting effects. This shift toward a more patient-centered approach, supported by advanced AI tools, heralds a new era of improved healthcare outcomes and experiences.

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NASHP

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Strategies to Increase COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Medicaid Enrollees: Considerations for State Leaders December 3, 2021. State-level data indicate that COVID-19 vaccination rates are lower among people covered by Medicaid than the general population. Executive Summary. percent) children. As the majority (61.1

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 11, 2024

What You Should Know: – Sheba Medical Center , a leading Israeli hospital, is collaborating with ARC Innovation Center and KPMG to develop a generative AI platform named “Liv” aimed at transforming mental healthcare accessibility. “Liv” represents a potential paradigm shift in mental healthcare.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

WELL Health and OSIS announced this week that they had partnered to provide community health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers more seamless access to patient communications technology. According to the vendor, 19 different languages are available for use. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Once the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the health system needed to be able to treat the surge of patients with urgent care needs virtually so they could keep them safely at home and away from the overwhelmed emergency care system. THE PROBLEM. " ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

"We also were keen on enhancing the overall patient experience," said Dr. Ronald Pope, vice president of medical services, care centers, at Albany Med-Columbia Memorial Health. Such a strategy would optimize the use of time and resources for both patients and healthcare professionals. 9,312 completed assessments in 12 months.

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NASHP

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Addressing Gaps in Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Access and Uptake Children younger than 12 are the least likely to have received a COVID-19 vaccination of any age group in the U.S. As of May 3, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recorded that only 13 percent of U.S.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines for Long-term Care Facility Residents was updated August 31, 2021. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has created unique challenges for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). Resources for individuals with deafness or hearing loss.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 16, 2023

COVID-19 forced Oak Orchard Health, a health system based in Brockport, New York, to change the way it did almost everything at its health centers – beginning with its inability to see patients face to face. Patients can stay at home while providers work at the health center or other safe location to provide care.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2022

When pandemic response efforts are hampered by inadequate enforcement resources and political polarization, tort liability could, potentially, be a powerful public health tool. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. By Timothy D. Neither the U.S.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

NYU’s Langone hospital system decided that — outside of the Emergency Room — patients would generally only be required to mask “if they have fever and cough” (query what percentage of individuals with recent COVID-19 infections did not have this specific combo of symptoms — spoiler: it’s probably high ). As the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

John Auerbach, SVP Federal Health, ICF Given the attention paid to the devastating impact of COVID-19, one might assume it was the leading cause of death in the US. million Americans died of COVID in the last 4 years – heart disease remains the largest cause of death and by a landslide.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Conditions such as cellulitis, COPD, asthma, UTI, heart failure, COVID-19, pneumonia and gastroenteritis are among those that can be treated safely in a home-based program. The health system says it's looking for acute care nurses who might be interested in learning more, and will be holding virtual hiring event , Nov.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2022

However, COVID-19 surges accelerated widespread telehealth adoption, as many couldn't leave their homes or were not comfortable coming to a doctor's office. "It's important to consider what resources best support your communities' access to the care they need," Fletcher advised.

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Briggs Healthcare

JANUARY 9, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CMS QI Voices: Improving COVID-19 Outcomes in Nursing Homes Across America is an audio series that gives you a closer look at the projects and the people who are improving health care quality and outcomes. There are additional resources available for this recording.

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NASHP

MARCH 6, 2023

With the anticipated end of the federal public health emergency (PHE) in May and the absence of continued federal funding, COVID-19 vaccines will shift from being purchased by the federal government (and available to individuals at no cost) to the same vaccine purchasing, distribution and administration process used for routine vaccinations.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

UMass Memorial is the only adult Level I Trauma Center and Level III Neonatal ICU in Central Massachusetts. "It wasn't until COVID-19 emerged that we learned how effectively we could deliver high-quality virtual care to the bedside without the sophistication and complexity of a tele-ICU program."

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In the 1980s, however, developed countries once again became concerned with infectious disease, in light of emerging infectious diseases (EID) such as HIV/AIDS, and later SARS and COVID-19, and re-emerging old ones (e.g., It purports to understand the global nature of disease, rather than center on transmission solely in one direction.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Centers for Disease Control issued a report featuring evidence that in the month of March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic was not an equal-opportunity killer. Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus.

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Healthcare Success

JANUARY 25, 2023

However, these numbers escalated in 2020, along with the COVID-19 pandemic. A gunman opened fire at a Dallas Methodist Medical Center— killing two nurses in September. Equip employees with the resources and support they need to protect their mental health, so they can better manage and cope with angry patients.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Kate Behan, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, Arcadia A so-called “tripledemic” — the convergence of flu, RSV and COVID-19 — led to significant morbidity and mortality, and it also forced the cancellation or delay of numerous medical procedures at overwhelmed health systems. It’s not hypothetical — the pandemic proved this was possible.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 23, 2023

Before COVID-19, healthcare worker burnout had reached crisis levels , research from the National Academies of Medicine shows. Talkdesk is using ChatGPT now to make healthcare contact center agents more efficient and effective, she said. You have incorporated ChatGPT into your contact center workflow.

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Briggs Healthcare

MAY 26, 2022

“Vaccines have proven to be spectacularly effective in preventing death from Covid-19, but the U.S. The Brown School of Public Health) Vaccine Preventable Deaths Dashboard shows that since vaccines became widely available, every second Covid-19 death could have been prevented by vaccines.”.

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p3care

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In the last quarter of 2020, CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) announced the performance scores for clinicians of QPP MIPS 2019 on its official site. Because registries like ours possess the right resources who follow a set roadmap to report quality measures, and in doing so, they can predict the scores.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center in New Haven, Connecticut, as a community health center, always had faced a range of treatment barriers that made it difficult, if not impossible, for patients to attend in-person appointments pre-COVID – and for which telemedicine would have been a viable alternative. THE PROBLEM.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

The increase in demand, morbidity and mortality sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic remains at crisis levels and is exacerbating existing challenges, such as diminished provider capacity and workforce issues.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 4, 2022

health system stretched thin by wave after wave of COVID-19 variants, that hope may be hard to come by. The beginning of a new year is usually a time for optimism. But for a U.S. The healthcare workforce is depleted, exhausted and demoralized. Care quality is often degraded, and patient accessibility is still lacking.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Over the past two weeks, the news coming in about the spread of COVID-19 has been eerily familiar. Unlike in the early days of COVID-19, when there was genuine uncertainty about how it spread, the data is in that it’s transmitted by aerosolized particles in the air. By Jennifer S. At the same time, cases across the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

MAY 18, 2023

What You Should Know: Three years after COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency, many healthcare supply chain leaders and frontline professionals are operating in survival mode, according to new industry research from Deloitte Consulting LLP. Key findings include: 70% of interviewees cited data visibility as a concern.

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