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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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Armed with a cellphone and laptop, one school nurse makes calls to county residents who have tested positive for the virus, and she is one of 16 school nurses in Maryland redeployed to help during the pandemic. -
Timely and consistent interactions between patient and doctor foster a long-term relationship and build continuity of care – a simple, yet an often-overlooked aspect of our nation's health-care system.
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Some experts believe that the temporary expansion of telehealth services will have lasting effects and that offerings will remain as a widely available option long after the novel coronavirus pandemic ends.
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The lawsuit filed by a group of 911 dispatchers at about a dozen suburban emergency departments in Illinois to share the location of novel coronavirus patients was blocked by a Cook County judge Friday.
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The goal of taking daily attendance isn’t to crack down on absentees, but to monitor that students are faring well through the pandemic, say Pennsylvania school officials working to keep students engaged.
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Researchers believe that using AI to analyze voice could help doctors screen patients for potential coronavirus symptoms. The voice analysis test would take under five minutes and could be self-administered.
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Police in Westport, Conn., thought they had found a viable method to monitor the COVID-19 outbreak in the form of a new drone, but public comments inspired the local department to abandon the technology.
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The state, which was hard-hit by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, has seen less than stellar response to the U.S. Census. Despite a push to garner responses online, the state still ranks 43rd nationally.
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With the coronavirus pandemic still gripping the planet, one of the newest avenues for con artists is in the field of telemedicine, in which health diagnoses and monitoring are rendered remotely and electronically.
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Public health experts warn that quick, effective tracing is key to reducing the spread, and while Massachusetts isn’t implementing mobile contact tracing due to privacy concerns, the governor hasn’t dismissed the idea.
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This week, an Indiana company will begin installing thermal screening systems for clients. The technology existed before the crisis, but officials said the heightened focus on public health has expanded the market.
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Scientific papers published and distributed using the PDF format are “not amenable to text processing,” a group of researchers wrote in a paper published last week. This means the technology is less effective.
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Nationwide, contact tracing is the key to reopening businesses and resuming some form of normal life as the coronavirus pandemic begins to subside, epidemiologists say. But no federal plan or funding is on the horizon.
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Two county DAs and New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli are coordinating with other law enforcement officials to protect the public from Internet scammers who are using COVID-19 to rip off unsuspecting people.
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With technology it originally used to detect opioids, the Massachusetts-based startup will expand its efforts to give health departments a more accurate picture of the prevalence of the coronavirus in local populations.
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