FEMA is asking healthcare organizations needing extra medical staff because of the COVID-19 surge to work with local agencies first, and to consider reducing elective procedures and activating retired or reserve medical staff.
It’s not every day that doctors, nurses, and other clinicians get to help design their new hospital. Providers are doing just that at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital in California. The organization is planning a new, nine-story hospital building and hopes to begin construction in November...
The HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) is urging CMS to expand its hospital Conditions of Participation, or at least the interpretive guidelines for the current CoPs, to improve oversight of the cybersecurity of networked medical devices. The OIG is concerned that neither surveyors from CMS...
About 14% of respondents to a new the survey reported that access to telehealth kept them out of the emergency department. The new national survey of 1776 people, conducted by telephone in June and July by the ...
Telehealth as a percentage of all medical claims rose 2% nationally from April to May after dropping for the three previous months, according to nonprofit FAIR Health’s Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker. Overall, telehealth represented 5% of all medical claims in May, up from 4.9% in April,...
For those of you who have been watching this space for a while, it is probably a pretty good likelihood that you know that I (at times) have a tendency to reflect on the...
I’m thinking that there’s probably a fairly limited number of you folks for whom durable medical equipment (DME) is part of your “span of control,” though, as I think...
Conditions like preterm birth, preeclampsia, and gestational diabetes impact 45 million women every year across the world. That’s triple the rate of cancer, yet we lack a reliable way to identify patients who are at risk. A team of physicians are working on groundbreaking research into pregnancy...
