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This year, more than 5 million Americans will be diagnosed with Heart Valve Disease. All too often, for Black patients with certain forms of the disease this can be a death sentence, with patients from minority communities facing significantly higher mortality rates than their white counterparts. The most common form of this disease is aortic stenosis (AS), where the aortic valve narrows and weakens the heart. While common, AS can be deadly, and one in six patients will have a more aggressive form called symptomatic severe aortic stenosis (SSAS), that can be fatal within two years without tre...

(Credit: Hero Images) The pandemic has created an atmosphere in healthcare unlike anything seen before in modern times. It has set the stage for CIOs and other health IT executives to rethink their approach to accomplishing new tasks. This is the sixth instalment in Healthcare IT News' feature story series, "Health IT Lessons Learned During the COVID-19 Era." (Click here to visit the portal with all the feature stories.)  This time around we feature the expertise of the following five leaders: David Chou, senior vice president and CIO at Harris Health System, based in Houston. (@dchou1107)...

Press release content from Business Wire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium Announces Launch of Phase II of Telemedicine Campaign with More Than $4.7M in Grants April 22, 2021 GMT BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 21, 2021-- The FQHC (Federally Qualified Health Center) Telehealth Consortium today announces the launch of Phase II of its campaign to greatly increase telemedicine capacity in Massachusetts’s community health centers. The Consortium, a partnership of Community Care Cooperative (C3), the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) tha...

10:22 AM The Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium has been awarded a grant from the Federal Communications Commission to increase telemedicine capacity in community health centers statewide. The consortium is made up of 35 federally qualified health centers. WHY IT MATTERS The $3.1 million grant stems from the FCC's Connect Care Pilot Program, which is designed to help eligible provider organizations defray the costs of offering virtual care and study how the FCC's Universal Service Fund can help support the trend toward connected-care services. The consortium plans to apply its grant fun...

FCC meets with UVA Health to expand telemedicine into patients’ homes FCC meets with UVA Health to expand telemedicine into patients’ homes By Rachel Hirschheimer | February 3, 2021 at 2:34 PM EST - Updated February 4 at 8:10 AM CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been helping to expand telehealth services at the University of Virginia as the need for virtual visits increase. Acting FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks met virtually with the UVA Karen S. Rheuban Center for Telehealth Tuesday, February ...