By Mike Hodge – Often a patient’s healthcare journey doesn’t end at discharge from the hospital. Moreover, medically complex patients require long term acute care outside of the hospital setting. The COVID-19 pandemic has escalated this need in two ways:

The USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that USDA is awarding $74 million in grants to improve health care facilities in rural towns across the Nation. These grants will help 143 rural health care organizations expand critical services for 3 million people in 37 states, Guam and Puerto Rico.

We are seeking out the latest developments around Telemedicine. News from American Medical Association, Teladoc Health, Signant Health, Heartbeat Health, American Telemedicine Association, Brave Health, SONIFI Health, Vitalchat, AMC Health, Orbit Telehealth, Connected Health Initiative, DrFirst, Avel eCare, Enghouse Vidyo, Amwell, and more.

By Art Gross – The Office for Civil Rights isn’t offering leniency just because you’re a small business. Action will be taken, despite the impact that a HIPAA fine can have on this sector of healthcare. And as eleven recent investigations prove the point, many of those were small practices.