COVID-19: How the UK's regional health tech cluster is responding

03. May 2020 Health 0
As a result of COVID-19, the UK has turned decisively to the tech sector to provide them with health solutions. But some places were more prepared than others. In the recent techUK webinar, ‘COVID-19: How Yorkshire’s health tech cluster is responding’, local experts discussed how the already strong integration of digital health tools benefited the ...

COVID-19 Funding Available to Minority, Rural and Socially Vulnerable Communities for Linkages to Services, Information and Education

02. May 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health (OMH) announced a competitive funding opportunity to invest up to $40 million for the development and coordination of a strategic network of national, state, territorial, tribal and local organizations to deliver important COVID-19-related information to racial and ethnic minority, rural and socially vulnerable ...

HHS Begins Distribution of Payments to Hospitals with High COVID-19 Admissions, Rural Providers

02. May 2020 EHR, EMR, Health, HIPAA 0
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is processing payments from the Provider Relief Fund to hospitals with large numbers of COVID-19 inpatient admissions through April 10, 2020, and to rural providers in support of the national response to COVID-19. “These new payments are being distributed to healthcare providers who have been hardest ...