Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Royal Melbourne Hospital introduces remote heart device interrogation amid lockdowns. The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), a public hospital in Victoria has turned to remote interrogations of cardiac implanted electronic devices (CIED) to continue checking up on patients amid COVID-19 lockdowns.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2025

Capacity Planning: AI tools help hospitals predict admission surges, ensuring adequate staffing and resources during peak demand periods. These improvements span internal and customer-facing operations at payers, care delivery organizations, and government entities such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and public hospitals.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 1, 2023

What You Should Know: – Lunit , a provider of AI-powered solutions for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, has partnered with NTT DATA Singapore to introduce Lunit INSIGHT CXR at Singapore General Hospital (SGH) and Changi General Hospital (CGH), two of Singapore’s largest public hospitals.

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 10, 2023

Summary: California lawmakers have greenlighted emergency loans to support struggling hospitals facing financial challenges across the state. These loans will serve as a critical lifeline, helping eligible hospitals stabilize operations and navigate through turbulent times. a hospital that closed after January 1, 2022).

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 19, 2023

As an update to our previous post , on Monday, May 15, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 112 (“AB 112”), which is designed to provide critical relief to qualified struggling hospitals across the state. Recognizing this, the California Legislature unanimously passed AB 112 in both chambers earlier this month.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

By using TytoCare, mPharma’s mutti pharmacy network has been able to reduce costs, improve community members’ access to doctors and specialists, and save patients the long wait times that are common in hospitals and clinics. On average patients can wait two to three hours to see a doctor at public hospitals and one hour in private hospitals.

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KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems. But a federal appellate court recently said Young’s firing violated the law and ordered that she be reinstated.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The pressure nurses are under to provide care outside of the hospital and to support family members has implications for the capacity and stability of health care systems, and is particularly concerning for public health care systems, which exist to care for the underserved and marginalized.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

– Aspirus Wausau Hospital in Wausau, Wisconsin, was awarded $999,463 for the purchase of tablets and video conferencing devices to increase telehealth capabilities so providers can interact with patients without unnecessary risk of exposure to COVID-19. – Community Health Centers, Inc., – Compass Health in St. .

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NASHP

APRIL 15, 2022

Use crisis services, emergency rooms, urgent care, or inpatient stays as the sole source of care; Experienced two or more emergency room visits or two or more hospitalizations due to SMI or SUD in the past 12 months. Short-term post-hospitalization housing. Public hospital systems. Public hospital systems.

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KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Karen Jo Young wrote a letter to her local newspaper criticizing executives at the hospital where she worked as an activities coordinator, arguing that their actions led to staffing shortages and other patient safety problems. But a federal appellate court recently said Young’s firing violated the law and ordered that she be reinstated.

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CiscoHealth

JULY 20, 2017

NYC Health + Hospitals. NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care system in the United States. In the past, the jails had to transport inmates to public hospitals for specialist care. Vingh Pham who sees patients from Bellevue Hospital. Improve leverage of limited physician resources.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It also exposes hospitals to the risk of liability.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 15, 2024

That poses a substantial burden for hospitals and health systems – and necessitates a paradigm shift in management strategies, clinicians say. It encompasses Erie County Medical Center, one of only five public hospitals in New York State and the region's only Level 1 Adult Trauma Center.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2020

County, public hospitals are concerned that patients are waiting too long to seek care. Consider the hospital’s lens on this: Kaufman Hall published their April 2020 hospital flash report this week, with this chart on the negative EBITDA margin that hit U.S. hospitals hard in March 2020. For example, in L.A.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In Oceania, most public hospitals have an EMR in place, but purchase energy remains high since many public and private provider organizations are planning large-scale purchases of go-forward EMRs. ezCaretech was also selected by a hospital in Japan, their first Asia client outside South Korea.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Hospitals should have a plan to rapidly diagnose and treat malaria as soon as possible, within 24 hours of the patient’s presentation. This HAN alert contains much more information, including symptoms, recommendations for clinicians as well as the public, hospitals, laboratories and public health officials.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020. In New York City, Black women like Ms.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Together with Olympus Corporation, the project will evaluate the effectiveness of Cybernet Systems' EndoBRAIN-EYE software at Cho Ray Hospital and 108 Hospital. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals. The study follows similar projects done in India and Thailand over the past two years.

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Triage Health Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 study observed that most hospitals operating under the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Healthcare Organizations (the ERDs) do not publicize their religious care restrictions to patients on their websites. [1] 3] Title X of the Public Health Service Act, 42 U.S.C. 2019;321(11):1103–1104. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.0133.

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Hospitals currently rely on technology for everything, from setting appointments to doing tests, and clinicians need access to a patient’s medical records to make decisions on care. A new Patient Safety Bill in Ireland will make it mandatory for all private hospitals and health service providers to report serious patient safety incidents.

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NASHP

AUGUST 26, 2021

In New York City, the city’s public hospital system will lead tracing work. Due to increased infections, as of April 2021, Jackson County contact tracers will only conduct case investigations and contact tracing in nursing homes, hospitals, schools, and other large, high-risk venues.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

So, Beatriz filed a constitutional action ( amparo ) urgently demanding an abortion in the public hospital where she received care. Beatriz’s health never recovered, and she died four years later after being hospitalized due to a traffic accident. She requested an abortion, as her health and life were at stake.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

Interviewees shared a range of perspectives, including those of local health departments, the state’s sheriff’s association, the state medical society, community health centers, hospital and primary care associations, funders, a CBO, aging and assisted living partners, consumer advocacy groups, and legislators.

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