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Medicare began covering telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic and has maintained the popular offering through temporary waivers approved by Congress since. -
Modernizing benefits delivery is no longer a question of “if,” it’s a question of “how well.” Making benefits more easily accessible improves staff workload, increases user satisfaction and improves outcomes.
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SponsoredNow more than ever, state and local agencies that provide unemployment benefits, health and human services and other social safety net programs are under pressure to modernize communications and the customer experience. -
The Washington, D.C.-based company AlphaVu recently filed for patent protection for two algorithms: one dedicated to assessing public sentiment on COVID-related issues, the other for finding misinformation.
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SponsoredHint: Don’t wait for an outbreak to begin testing.
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The Florida Constitution and Sunshine laws require local governments meet in person, but Gov. Ron DeSantis suspended that mandate with a March 20 executive order that will last through Nov. 1.
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Airports have become testing sites for new technologies amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. In some places, temperature scanning technology is increasingly being used to monitor and slow the spread of the virus in real time.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Wednesday announced the agency is investing $781,127 to provide telemedicine software and equipment to bolster health-care access in central Kansas.
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The dashboard is the result of a collaborative effort between a professor at Brown University, a private software company called Qualtrics, and school officials from districts across the country.
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The app, called "COVID Alert NY," employs Bluetooth technology to record whenever users come within close proximity of each other, but officials say it's anonymous and collects no personal or geographic data.
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Lawrence General Hospital officials are working through the details of exactly what happened during a disruptive cybersecurity incident earlier this month. The 36-hour disruptions forced ambulances to be diverted.
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The school district in Burlington, Iowa, has expanded its COVID-19 data sharing dashboard, reconfiguring it to more closely resemble a previous version before the state issued data sharing guidance.
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The state is set to receive $3.9 million as part of a multistate lawsuit filed against Anthem following a “massive” data breach in 2014, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced Wednesday.
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Once meetings are able to return in-person, some St. Joseph County, Ind., officials say they would like to see local government meetings permanently move to an in-person/virtual hybrid meeting format.
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Within a month, Connecticut residents may be able to access smartphone alerts if they have had possible contact with COVID-19 patients, Gov. Ned Lamont announced as the state reported a spike in positive tests.
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The contact tracing app has been downloaded more than 77,000 times since it was launched for smartphone users Tuesday. The state health department's goal is to reach 100,000 downloads by next week.
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New technology that uses Wi-Fi and bluetooth signals to count people is being used to reduce COVID-19 exposure in high-traffic areas like libraries, gyms and other locations on several campuses.
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