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Despite the fact that CMS has extended the public health emergency that expanded telemedicine coverage, a number of states aren’t on board, according to Dr. John Halamka and Paul Cerrato. “Finding a way to extend the regulatory waivers,” they write, “is in our patients’ best interest.”
The digital models designed to provide accurate, unbiased care can’t succeed if there are still algorithmically underserved populations, according to Mayo Clinic researchers, who provide some practical solutions in this piece.
“We have a responsibility to help our organizations reduce carbon emissions,” according to Andy Draper, CIO at HCA Healthcare and founder of GreenCIO. In this post, he provides practical advice for healthcare IT leaders on how to get started.
For healthcare IT leaders, recruiting and retaining a strong workforce has proven extremely challenging. But for some, it’s also an “opportunity for innovation and thinking differently,” said Theresa Meadows, speaking on a CHIME panel with John Glaser and Andrea Daugherty.
The potential offered by hospital-at-home models to improve patient satisfaction and outcomes while more effectively utilizing staff is sky-high, but for many organizations, obstacles like connectivity and lack of training continue to stand in the way, according to Jim Feen, Audrius Polikaitis, and Stephanie Lahr.
