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 Q&A: How the PHE’s end could affect telehealth, patient care
MobiHealthNews - (Friday February 17, 2023) The public health emergency declared in early 2020 was put in place to provide waivers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to ease the burden on hospitals and other providers during the pandemic. It has been extended 12 times since its implementation and is finally slated to end on May 11. Heather Meade, principal at Washington Council Ernst & Young, spoke with MobiHealthNews about how the end of the PHE could affect telemedicine companies’ funding streams and patients’ access to care.  Larry Saves the Canadian Healthcare System – The Musical – Fun Friday
Healthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023) Satire + Music + Comedy + Healthcare. What’s not to love? |
 DrFirst Acquires Diagnotes Secure Messaging and Care Coordination Platform
Healthcare IT Today - (Friday February 17, 2023) Expands Backline by DrFirst’s Capabilities for Clinical Communications in Health Systems and Beyond  The Adderall Shortage
MedCity News - (Friday February 17, 2023) The current Adderall shortage is of serious concern to both patients who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and clinicians. This shortage cannot be quickly alleviated by a simple increase in the amount of medication manufactured, unless the upper limit to the amount of Adderall’s active ingredient that can be manufactured in a given year is raised by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The limit has been imposed because the active ingredient can be abused as a recreational drug. It is necessary to control the supply of any medication with abuse liability, but this must be achieved without compromising the legitimate… |
 VA Postpones Oracle Cerner EHR Implementation at Ann Arbor Site
DistilINFO Hospital IT - (Friday February 17, 2023) The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will further delay its Oracle Cerner EHR implementation at the agency’s Ann Arbor Healthcare System until late 2023 or early 2024, according to reporting from FedScoop. Laura E….  331 – From clinician to entrepreneur. Kevin Wernli, Roy Mariathas, Santosh Kaur – AUSCEP Participants
Talking HealthTech - (Friday February 17, 2023) Pete speaks with a lot of people who have a clinical background. They have done the hard work to be a doctor, a nurse, or an allied health provider. They go through the training, they get all the… |
 Leveraging Technology to Bridge Gaps in Compliance
HIT Consultant - (Friday February 17, 2023) Sean Eaton, Senior Compliance Solutions Specialist at GHXAmerican health systems, hospitals and post-acute care providers are required to comply with hundreds of regulatory requirements. Facilitating this compliance comes with a high cost. According to the American Hospital Association, the average-sized community hospital spends nearly $7.6 million annually on administrative activities to support regulatory compliance. With the impending end of the COVID-19 public health emergency set to shake up healthcare regulations, ongoing healthcare labor shortages, and skyrocketing levels of clinician burnout, a perfect storm for non-compliance is brewing. Even with significant investments in administration to support compliance, overwhelmed providers can inadvertently leave gaps…  SA Telestroke doubles rural treatment capacity after cloud shift
Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023) SA Health has recently turned to the cloud to provide more efficient stroke care to patients living in regional and rural areas.According to a media release, the SA Telestroke Service has been using the cloud-based telehealth platform Zeus to gather vital health information from stroke patients, including brain scans and consultation records, into a single platform. It was deployed by the Australian Stroke Alliance across 61 hospitals in regional SA and Alice Springs in the Northern Territory as part of a five-year agreement with SA Health. |
 Medtronic, Zydus Hospitals to facilitate remote stroke care using AI
Healthcare IT news - (Friday February 17, 2023) Zydus Hospitals in Ahmedabad and Medtronic India have tied up to launch an AI-enabled hub-and-spoke network to support stroke patients in the western coastal state of Gujarat. An initiative of the pharmaceutical giant Zydus Group, the multispecialty hospital chain has locations across Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh. Its Ahmedabad branch runs two hospitals – a super speciality centre and a primary hospital – with over 660 beds.  VinBrain harnesses Stanford data to improve radiology AI
MobiHealthNews - (Friday February 17, 2023) Vietnamese healthcare AI developer VinBrain has started a new partnership with Stanford University to enhance AI medical imaging.Based on their latest data use agreement, Stanford will initially provide VinBrain access to about 240,000 anonymised medical images and reports to train and test the AI on its DrAid clinical decision support platform while also helping improve the accuracy of an information extracting method for structuring radiology reports called RadGraph. |
