Covid vaccinations are to become compulsory for staff at Tehy care home in Chelmsford, UK. Covid vaccinations are to become compulsory for staff at care homes in England, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said. Parliament states that worker have 16 weeks to get both jabs from the time regulations are..
Funeral homes new law to Funeral directors and crematorium operators must make prices clear for customers, the UK’s competition watchdog has ordered. Martin Coleman statement, chairman of the inquiry at the Competition and Market Authority (CMA). He said: “Organizing a funeral is one of the hardest things that anyone must..
Home care services includes a professional caregiver for when you need extra care, companionship and support at the comfort of your daily activities. Tehy care group services is here to help you out when you need personal care, medical care, household chores or a personal assistant. Tehy care group is..
Insurer Oscar announced today it will offer virtual primary care in 10 major markets in 2021, offering the product at zero cost. Oscar Care includes access to designated virtual primary and urgent providers for members who have individual and family plans. It includes zero-dollar, unlimited virtual visits with a team of..
These days, insurtech is its own burgeoning startup ecosystem. But in 2012, a startup elbowing into a space dominated by big long-term players like United, Humana, Cigna, and the Blues was audacious and unheard of. Enter Oscar Health, the health insurance startup that’s been pushing the envelope, exploring ways technology..
The root causes of nursing burnout are varied – as are potential solutions for it. However, given that nurses are frequently responsible for clinical documentation, it’s perhaps not surprising that reducing documentation burden is frequently cited as a key strategy for fighting burnout. Whether it’s through more in-depth electronic health record training..
People have wholeheartedly embraced asynchronous communication around the globe. In business and social circles, communicating with tools such as text messaging, Google Docs, and Slack is now par for the course. So it’s not surprising that the demand for asynchronous healthcare experiences – telemedicine delivered as the store-and-forward transmission of..
Three weeks after a cyber attack led to a network outage at Scripps Health, employees say some systems are coming back online. According to reporting from ABC News, several Scripps Health workers said they’d regained access to “read-only” medical records from before May and payroll systems, along with some computers, emails, and X-rays. ..
UK Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, has today announced the launch of the Genome UK 2021-2022 implementation plan. Following the Genome UK policy paper published in September 2020, the plan outlines 27 priority actions for the next year that will help the UK to advance its ambition to become “the world’s most advanced genomic..
In a new report examining the rapidly evolving telehealth landscape, KLAS found that vendors self-reported a wide array of capabilities – and it noted that different companies can meet different customers’ needs. KLAS also found varying levels of self-reported customer adoption of vendors’ tools across four common telehealth scenarios. “To help healthcare..