Telemedicine Playing Front Line Role in COVID-19 Outbreak
The virtual visit is conducted by a physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner. Most of the clinicians work at the health system’s telehealth platform, Spectrum Health Now, but they are being supplemented with clinicians from urgent care centers and primary care clinics who have spare time.
AHIP, ACHE, AONL Cancel Conferences Amid Coronavirus Concerns
The actions follow those of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, which last week issued a last-minute cancellation of this week’s annual conference in Orlando, at which 45,000 people from across the globe were expected to attend.
HHS Releases Final Interoperability Rules
The two rules, issued by the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), were announced last year, and the final rules were issued Monday.
IHI Celebrates Patient Safety Awareness Week
Running from March 8-14, the IHI’s Patient Safety Awareness Week is planned as a way to encourage greater knowledge about healthcare safety.
Experts: COVID-19 is ‘Approaching Pandemic’
According to the dashboard developed by Johns Hopkins University to track the progress of COVID-19, there were 111,363 total confirmed cases worldwide as of 10:30 a.m. Eastern on Monday. Of that total, 566 were in the U.S. There are 3,892 total deaths (3,008 in Hubei Mainland China) and 22 in the U.S., 17 of those in King County, Washington state.
HIMSS 20 Canceled Amid Coronavirus Concerns
In recent days, several major companies including Cisco, Amazon, and Microsoft, decided to withdraw from the conference, which typically draws around 45,000 attendees, due to concerns about the spread of the coronavirus.
Study Highlights Best Practices to Protect Against COVID-19
Researchers from Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong reported that no healthcare workers contracted COVID-19 and no hospital-acquired infections were identified after the first six weeks of the outbreak, even as the health system tested 1,275 suspected cases and treated 42 active confirmed cases of COVID-19.
COVID-19: CMS Says Primary Survey Focus Will be on Infection Control Preparedness
The order was sent out late Wednesday in a Quality, Safety & Oversight Group memo, and followed up with two others on guidance for the prevention of COVID-19 in hospitals and nursing homes, specifically.
Yale New Haven Hospital Sued Over Aging Clinician Assessment Policy
The Late Career Practitioner Policy at Yale New Haven Hospital requires clinicians who are at least 70 years old and seeking reappointment to the medical staff to undergo vision and neuropsychological assessments.
Hospitality Trumps Clinical Outcomes When It Comes To Patient Satisfaction
As lead author of “Patients as Consumers in the Market for Medicine: The Halo Effect of Hospitality,” Young and colleagues analyzed Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services data on patient satisfaction, mortality, and technical medical quality for more than 3,000 general and acute-care hospitals in the United States between 2007 and 2010.