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AHIP: Telehealth Expansions Would Slow Behavioral Health Workforce Crisis

Extension of the pandemic’s telehealth expansions could help alleviate the ongoing behavioral health workforce crisis, but it would take a concerted effort from providers and insurers to fully integrate telehealth more broadly into their operations, the health insurance lobby AHIP suggests in a new report . The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated two crises in health care: a national mental health crisis and a national health care workforce crisis , both of which AHIP argues could be addressed by a set...

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NIST Report Showcases Successful Cyber, Privacy Protections For Telehealth

A new report and practice guide from the National Institute of Standards and Technology examines how health care providers can use technology to conduct “remote patient monitoring” without compromising security or patient privacy. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence tested an RPM system and security software and concluded it was successful in running a program with a high level of security. The NCCoE offered a full report on the exercise as well as a how-to guide that organizations and IT...

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HHS Warns Health Industry To Step Up Efforts To Prevent Cyber Attacks

HHS warns health care organizations to step up efforts to defend against cybersecurity threats related to electronic medical records in order to protect patient information, in a guidance sent Feb. 17. The warning comes as concerns over potential patient privacy breaches have grown amid the explosion in telehealth during the pandemic. The Office of Information Security at the HHS Cybersecurity Program said organizations should proactively defend against attacks rather than simply seeking to prevent them. Electronic medical records contain a...

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Considerations For mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech And Moderna

Interim Clinical Considerations For Use Of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Approved Or Authorized In The United States

HHS’ Latest Provider Relief Distribution Leaves $5.5 Billion In The Fund

More than 4,100 providers will receive $560 million in the latest release of provider relief that they can use for staff recruitment and retention, as well as cover COVID-19-related losses and expenses, HHS announced Thursday (Feb. 24), leaving $5.5 billion in the dwindling fund. The latest release comes as providers beg Congress for at least $20 billion to replenish the fund , which is due to run out of money in the coming months even though lawmakers dedicated $178 billion...

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Obama Health Officials To Becerra: Support Direct Contracting, CMMI

Obama administration health officials, including former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, urged HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure to let the controversial direct contracting demonstration play out -- though they didn’t suggest any specific tweaks to the demo -- and also said they are committed to letting the innovation center do its work. The Trump administration put forward a three-track direct contracting model, and Biden’s CMS continued the global and professional tracks of the model. The Obama administration...

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