Kat Jercich
The nurse practitioner will serve as "the Nation's Doctor" pending the Senate confirmation of Dr. Vivek H. Murthy.
Larry Everett Smith is among five defendants who have recently pleaded guilty for their role in a healthcare fraud conspiracy that allegedly lasted for years.
Lawmakers in legislatures nationwide have introduced about 300 bills aimed at expanding access to telemedicine – but not every bill is equally helpful.
Workforce
Physicians point to long work hours and bureaucratic tasks as contributing to exhaustion and job-related stress, a new survey shows. "An EHR that actually works right" would help, said one.
Although the EHR market has made notable changes for the better, there's still ample opportunity for vendors and providers alike to work toward more robust data exchange, a new report shows.
The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 includes broadly popular provisions such as eliminating geographic and originating site restrictions.
Reports suggest that President Joe Biden is likely to tap three Obama-era officials for key cyber positions as the government continues to respond to the SolarWinds hack and other high-profile threats.
By using patient age, sex and daily clinical state, the machine learning model also predicts the probability of in-hospital mortality.
As would-be vaccine recipients scramble for appointment time slots, in too many cases "the technology is just being used wrong," says one exec.
The strategy includes a proposed executive order that will direct federal agencies to ramp up collection, sharing and analysis of data to "support an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery."