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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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The Narcotics Control Act failed to clear the state Legislature by session's end due to state Senate amendments — but county prescription drug monitoring efforts are gaining traction.
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Not having ID can make it virtually impossible to escape homelessness.
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Most 911 calls don't actually require a trip to the hospital. Instead, telemedicine can do the trick, and Houston's system is catching on among the country's paramedics.
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Medicare should have conducted an in-depth review after 96 hospitals submitted “aberrant data patterns” in 2013 and 2014, but that review never happened.
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Health and human service agency leaders are striving for integrated revitalization of programs to address increasingly complex social service challenges.
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In California, the federal money helped to expand mosquito surveillance, tracking of birth defects related to Zika and programs to educate residents about the disease, among other efforts.
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No one can say that these people aren’t deserving, but one can say that their stories point to a crisis in the American health care system in two ways, neither of which is solved by crowdfunding.
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Every state but one has a tracking system to combat the opioid epidemic, but they have long been criticized as difficult to use. States listened and made some upgrades.
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What’s changed most, says Jacobs, is a new management system under Gov. Doug Ducey, a former businessman, that borrows from "lean" practices in the business world to speed up the way they do things.
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A University of Kansas professor is working with students to build a prototype of what might simultaneously be the creepiest apartment imaginable and the healthiest.
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The California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System network contains data on placard information, but parking enforcement personnel who aren't sworn peace officers can't readily access it.
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In medicine, safety remains stubbornly reliant on human intervention. -
Six Missouri cities and 12 counties are joining an online prescription drug monitoring program that observers say lends momentum to state legislation.
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More specifically, "false claims for payment for services" in connection with the contract are being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice. It's not yet clear whether the state is the target of the investigation, or Deloitte -- or both.
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The Virginia Department of Social Services admitted that, from 2010 to 2014, it used improper methods to decrease the error rate it reported to the federal government related to its food stamp program.
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