What You Should Know: - Stanford Children’s Health announced they are ramping up services again six weeks after postponing non-emergent medical procedures due to the state-mandated suspension. - The health system will continue ongoing safety precautions including robust PPE standards; widespread access to COVID-19 and serology testing for all employees; testing all hospital patients; as well as using telehealth tools to reduce in-person visits whenever possible, among many other actions
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FCC Approves $4.2M for 13 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What You Need to Know: – FCC approves the fourth set of 13 COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $4.2M in funding. – To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 30 health care providers in 16 states for a total of $13.7 million in funding. The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional 13 funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $4.2M in funding. The third set of providers will support some
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FCC Approves Third Set of 6 COVID-19 Telehealth Program Providers
What
You Need to Know: – FCC approves the third set of six COVID-19 telehealth program providers, totaling $2.56M in funding. – To date, the FCC’s COVID-19 Telehealth Program has funded 17 health care providers in 10 states for a total of $9.5 million in funding. The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau approved an additional six funding applications for the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, totaling $2.56M in funding. The third set of providers
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Why COVID-19 Underscores The Importance of Social Determinants of Health
Google “Social Determinants of Health” and one will quickly discover a kind of litany of data pointing to a certain definition of “health” defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “A state of complete physical, mental and social well-being not merely the absence of disease or infirmity,” and socioeconomic barriers, which may prohibit equitable access to good health and wellness (Healthcare) more completely among diverse populations. Nevertheless, the heart of the matter
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FCC Chairman Unveils $200 Million COVID-19 Telehealth Program
- FCC new program would provide immediate support to healthcare facilities and patients across the country; separate connected care pilot program would study long-term role of telehealth. - The $200 million Program would immediately support healthcare providers responding to the pandemic by providing eligible healthcare providers support to purchase telecommunications services, information services. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai today announced his plan for a
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Innovaccer Launches InAPI to Build Apps on FHIR APIs to Promote Interoperability
What You Need to Know: - Innovaccer launches InAPI to build apps on FHIR APIs access for in-house development teams and third-party developers to enable seamless data. - The platform enables easy development of healthcare apps and promotes healthcare data interoperability among systems to enable care as one. Innovaccer,
a Silicon Valley-based healthcare
technology company, announced that it will be launching InAPI, its new
technology platform for healthcare developers that
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Clarify Health to use LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Socioeconomic Data
What You Need to Know: - LexisNexis Risk Solutions, that it has partnered with Clarify Health to evaluate the predictive capability of social determinants of health and clinical data. - The collaboration’s approach will integrate individual-level SDOH data into Clarify Health’s clinical analytical models to evaluate the quality and efficacy of the data at the point of care to help drive care management decision-making. - Clarify Health’s analytical models help identify population
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IntelyCare Raises $45M for Intelligent Nurse Staffing Platform to Address Solve Nationwide Workforce Shortage
- IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities raises $45M in new equity and debt financing to solve nationwide nurse shortage. - With this funding, the company will continue its viral expansion into new markets in dire need of better ways to pair facilities with open shifts and nurses looking for work. IntelyCare, a leading intelligent workforce management solution for post-acute facilities, today announced it has completed the largest
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CarePort’s Epic-Built Referral Platform Launches in Epic App Orchard
- CarePort Health, a provider of care coordination and post-acute outcomes management, announces that CarePort Transition Extender is now available in the Epic App Orchard marketplace. - With the Transition Extender, Epic EHR users can embed CarePort Transition, a post-acute referral management application, within their discharge planning workflow to streamline the creation, sending and management of post-acute referrals from directly within the EHR. CarePort Health, a
pioneer in
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Norton Healthcare Fights Opioid Epidemic with PDMP Integration in Epic EHR
- Norton Healthcare, a health system serving patients in Kentucky and southern Indiana, is now deploying Appriss Health technology to integrate its prescription drug monitoring program (PDMP) with its Epic electronic health record (EHR). - The solutions enable Norton Healthcare providers to share PDMP information across state lines and provide advanced analytic insights to improve opioid stewardship and help identify, prevent and manage substance use disorder in patients. - This is helping to
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