By Chelsea Richwine & Vaishali Patel – The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure that pose challenges to effective communication between health care providers and public health agencies.
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By Gil Dror – The monkeypox outbreak has accelerated with more than 3,000 cases in the US (according to CDC data) and the vaccine nationwide has been hamstrung by logistical and technical errors. The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak to be a global health emergency.
Our recent roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry. We are still talking and studying COVID, its impact and how it will help prepare for future pandemics. We are still seeing supply chain and labor challenges. And will we ever really see cost savings in healthcare? Check out these studies.
Taking a break from who is hiring and who was hired, we rounded up some reading on the state of the healthcare workforce. Like many things in our lives for the past two years the pandemic has taken a toll on it. The healthcare workforce might be on the top of the list of disruption. This week we are focusing on healthcare reports and studies that talk about jobs, salaries, and compensation.
Health IT product news from 19Labs, Pexip, Let’s Talk Interactive, OncoHealth, epocrates, Availity, IllumiCare, Biofourmis, ZeOmega, American Telemedicine Association, RadNet, VirtuSense Technology, GrayMatters Health, CPSI, Sphere, Perspectum and more.
The American Medical Association announced an editorial update to Current Procedural Terminology (CPT®), the nation’s leading medical terminology code set for describing health care procedures and services, that includes new product and administration codes assigned to the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months through 5 years old.
By Deirdre Ruttle – Two years ago, we released the Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report just as the world was shutting down to slow the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. At that time, few could comprehend how long the pandemic would endure.
To wrap up this year’s Nurses Week our monthly roundup of surveys and reports from around the industry is focused on nursing. A record number of nurses are leaving the profession while a record low admission rate for incoming students.
Allied Market Research reports that the global health IT market size was valued at $250,577.15 million in 2020, and is projected to reach $880,688.75 million by 2030. Here are health IT companies that have made announcements about their products.