Covid news

CMS proposes vital changes to Remote Patient Monitoring coverage

The federal government has clarified the way it regulates remote patient monitoring and the changes could significantly impact and potentially restrict the usage of telehealth and mHealth by care providers while they take care of patients at home.

Using pharmacist-led home blood pressure telemonitoring halved heart attacks and strokes

A study was published in the American Heart Association journal, Hypertension last week, found that pharmacist-managed home blood pressure telemonitoring and pharmacist management for 12 months lowered hypertension for two years.

No accurate tracking of healthcare workers lost to COVID-19, led her to stay up at night cataloging the dead

A woman was found dead at home for atleast 12 hours, with only her 4-year-old daughter by her side. Her early reports revealed that she was 42, a mammogram technician at a hospital and most certainly a COVID-19 patient.

Trump’s decision to exit from the World Health Organization will have serious consequences

President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization is bound to damage global efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic and other deadly diseases such as polio, HIV, and tuberculosis.