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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

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Post-Acute Advisor Podcast: HIPAA Refresher, Addressing COVID and other concerns

With us today is Joan Usher, a nationally recognized expert in the field of health information management. Find her at jluhealth.com. Today, we’ll be talking about HIPAA, the public health emergency, how to handle staff COVID testing in a HIPAA-compliant way, and more.

Home Health

Influenza surveillance report resource available through the CDC

Seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains low as we gear up for the 2020 flu season, according to the CDC’s weekly U.S. influenza surveillance report. This report is a free helpful resource for data and statistics related to influenza in the U.S. providing information for prevention, virus characterization and an activity map. To …

Skilled Nursing Facility

New York state reinstates restrictions for nursing home visitations

Despite CMS recommendations to reopen nursing homes to visitors, New York state has taken a step back and reinstated restrictions to nursing homes and SNFs located in COVID-19 hotspots. In a four week period ending October 11, New York nursing homes reported 713 confirmed and suspected COVID-19 cases, which is more than twice the number …

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Navigate COVID-19 with Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Interoperability

While gloves and masks are already a norm, social distancing may be the greatest barrier to patient care that the health industry has faced to date. Chronic care management, hospice, episodic post-surgery care and others are depending heavily on technology to take care of their patients and clinical staff. This guide will help you to understand the changing healthcare landscape scarred by COVID-19 and how you need to react to stay on top of things. You will learn how to leverage technology to combat this new post-COVID-19 landscape.