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The state Department of Commerce’s Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy is working with an AI-powered health platform to support faster prescription renewals for state residents with chronic conditions. -
Medicare began covering telemedicine services during the COVID-19 pandemic and has maintained the popular offering through temporary waivers approved by Congress since.
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Commissioners said it would be a boon for the county, which has seen 85 deaths from opioid overdoses since 2009, according to the county coroner.
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Mayor Ryan Stovall has no regrets.
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The data breach was discovered after a Pennsylvania-based child welfare worker found a link on the internet to a client file, which should not have been viewable online.
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The tracking system should have gone live in VA facilities across the nation by June 2017.
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The department could also better balance who serves on teams that investigate nursing home problems and analyze the location and frequency of complaints to deploy employees more efficiently.
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A study released Thursday showed an uptick in car collision claims in states that have legalized marijuana.
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Entrepreneurs and addiction specialists met in Portland, Maine, at the Maine Startup and Create Week conference for a panel discussion on the ways innovation can be used in the fight against opioid-related deaths.
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By combining the two technologies, drones and telemedicine, a doctor miles away could instruct a layman at the scene in how to provide rudimentary, but perhaps life-saving, medical care.
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Realizing a series of initiatives during the past year, employees at the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Children’s Administration have migrated to mobile technology, freeing them from writing case notes to do more social work.
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A simple WordPress site offers access to information for the homeless population, and work is underway with coders in Greensboro, N.C., to bring the site statewide.
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The tech-based consolidation effort grew from a recent larger restructuring of the city’s governmental response to homelessness.
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New York City has deployed StreetSmart in the Bronx and Staten Island, with plans to expand through the rest of the city by the end of June.
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State and local governments collect a lot of health data that could help the growing opioid epidemic in the United States.
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The county tagged at 526 individuals in January, up from 420 at the same time last year. The difference, officials say, was likely not as much in the actual population as it was in the technique used to collect data.
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The county tagged at 526 individuals in January, up from 420 at the same time last year. The difference, officials say, was likely not as much in the actual population as it was in the technique used to collect data.
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