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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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“Our goal is patient safety,” said Dr. Meghan Brett, a specialist at UNMH. “If we can do a better job of tracking hand hygiene then I think we can do a better job of keeping our patients safe.”
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Faced with soaring costs and insurance restrictions, Minnesota diabetics are turning to Facebook, eBay, Craigslist and other lesser-known markets where they can offer medication they no longer need and ask others for help.
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The pests are the target of a new program that will use a remote-controlled drone to spray U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-approved larvicides over mosquito-inhabited areas of the region.
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A new study in Los Angeles County has found that simply giving eligible people who seek information about food benefits the chance to immediately schedule an enrollment call makes a quantifiable difference.
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Beset with problems attributed to various contractors, Maryland’s health insurance exchange website launched a saga of investigation and litigation that cost the state tens of millions for the better part of a decade.
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Residents in the city have voiced concerns over the installation of a dense network of small cell wireless utilities on telephone poles, traffic signals, signs and other similar structures in the public right-of-way.
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While officials with Pennsylvania’s Ellwood City Medical Center say they do not believe patient data was compromised in a recent cyberattack, they are investigating the incident for potential data loss.
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Next-Generation 911 systems are heralded for their ability to pinpoint caller locations during an emergency while handling the sorts of data coming from smartphones.
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Minnesota’s share of the financial settlement is $30,000, according to a spokesman for state Attorney General Keith Ellison, who announced the agreement Thursday. The company involved was Medical Informatics Engineering.
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Plus, Cities of Service publishes the last case study for its 2018 Engaged Cities Award; Louisville, Ky., publishes its full What Works Cities Certification reports; and more!
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Developed by Axon, the company that provided the department with its body-worn cameras, the virtual reality technology allows its users to view computer-simulated scenarios through special headgear.
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An Opioid Analytics Users Group will unite stakeholders in government, industry and academia to analyze available data to identify patterns and more effectively direct prevention and treatment activities.
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Plans include grants toward a speech recognition app that helps people with speech disabilities communicate in real time and a chatbot that prepares job seekers with cognitive disabilities for interviews.
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The text alert system that warns drug treatment providers and users in Baltimore about potentially deadly street drugs is offline because of the ransomware attack on city computers, health officials confirmed.
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Replacing the Medicaid system is required by the federal government, analysts said, but the state has repeatedly missed targets for awarding contracts and encountered staffing problems since the work began in 2014.
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