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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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The Peoria Innovation Hub, announced Thursday, would focus on improving the wellness of poor, rural and elderly populations with advances in systems related to food, farming and transportation, with an emphasis on autonomous mobility.
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Indiana, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are among states focused on using data-driven methods and prescription drug monitoring programs to track the opioid epidemic, reduce its impact and save lives.
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The new software system, approved last week, will streamline access to information and digitize the work done by case workers through the New York county’s Department of Social Services.
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A computer system dating back to the 1990s is being replaced at a cost of $71 million, but the transition from legacy equipment to more modern technology is necessary to keep up with the rules.
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The 2012 legislation that allows doctors to teleconference has been useful in treating patients in rural areas, but lawmakers settled Thursday on limiting the prescription of the abortion-inducing drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in such cases.
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Montana, Ohio, Virginia and Wyoming have enlisted Deloitte to try to future-proof their modular Medicaid enterprise systems with a flexible integration tool for states adapting to new federal guidelines.
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Malicious software aimed at the hospital system’s 27,000 devices only affected around 250 and did not disrupt operations or patient care.
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FLUency is a thermometer connected to an app that allows hospitals and school nurses to share and track anonymous student information like temperatures and symptoms such as runny noses, sore throats, rashes and more.
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A new report from the journal Health Affairs finds the number of telemedicine visits in the state of Minnesota among both urban and rural residents increased sevenfold from 2010 to 2015.
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The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General is publishing a toolkit for states that includes a step-by-step guide and code for finding people at risk of overdosing on opioid painkillers. -
The social media company’s partnership with the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Computer Forensics Research Lab will center on identifying the street names for drugs and stopping sales over the site.
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While the price Google pays for land to build a massive campus near downtown San Jose is important, the other benefits the city can extract from the tech giant could affect the trajectory of the region for years to come.
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One of the wealthiest cities in the world is also struggling to get a handle on homelessness and a lack of accessible toilets. Enter Snapcrap, the app that allows passerbys to report the messes directly to the city.
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The Knight Foundation announced a $1 million investment in a new civic tech initiative focused on connecting residents with technology to expand their economic opportunities.
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Chembio Diagnostics Inc., maker of rapid tests for HIV and other diseases, is looking to replace 45 production jobs with robots in the consolidation of its Suffolk County, N.Y., operations.
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