Population Health

Also through its Virtual Care at Home program, Augusta has been able to show a reduced readmission rate of 7.4%.

It includes funding to modernise My Health Record.

 The requirements would result in federal savings, but would pass costs on to states and cause large coverage losses, data shows.

As the PHE ends this week, Christopher Johnson, president and co-CEO of TeleTracking, which worked with HHS on data collection during the pandemic, offers his views on the transition – and discusses some potential lasting changes to healthcare.

 "The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public health, and in my tenure as CDC Director."

It will incentivise patients to push them to self-manage their health conditions.

The service will help around 120 aged care residents each month avoid going to the ED.

Virtual nursing and virtual sitting can mitigate labor-related challenges in the acute care setting by allowing the monitoring of multiple patients remotely. Toby Eadelman, CTO at AvaSure, explains.

The mandate for aged care facilities to have a registered nurse on site around the clock kicks in this July and Datacom's Health Director Pauline Soo says attention now needs to turn to new ways of supporting staff and easing growing pressures.

Digital Medicine Society CEO Jennifer Goldsack, Moffitt Cancer Center VP of Digital Innovation Santosh Mohan and ONC Senior Advisor Stephen Konya discuss the progress of the Cancer Moonshot initiative.