The third extension of pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities through the end of next year will give the agencies time to promulgate final regulations and providers time to comply, the agencies said. Powered by WPeMatico
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A cybersecurity CEO offers advice on tactics healthcare CISOs and CIOs should use to protect sensitive telehealth data, and how providers can adopt a proactive security stance specific to virtual care. Powered by WPeMatico
Also, the Victorian Virtual Emergency Department has launched a new patient portal which already helped reduce duplicate records by a tenth. Powered by WPeMatico
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Dr. Kathy Ku is vice president at Vive Collective, a venture capital firm focused on digital health. Kathy is an entrepreneur, an engineer and a former consultant. She holds an MD/MBA from Stanford, where she was a recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship, and an AB/SM from Harvard, where she studied engineering sciences and ...