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Long-Haul COVID Renews Push to Expand Palliative Care
A nurse visits a hospice patient in his Dubuque, Iowa, home in 2019. Palliative and hospice care are similar, but palliative care patients don’t have a terminal illness and rarely can get the care at home. Palliative care providers and medical organizations are pressing the Biden administration to increase such care.
Jessica Reilly
Telegraph Herald via The Associated Press
The COVID-19 pandemic, which has left an estimated tens of thousands of Americans with long-term debilitating symptoms, has prompted a renewed push to provide full palliative care services to seriously ill patients in their homes.
Post-acute facilities face hurdles in healthcare s interoperability push
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Landmark data-sharing regulations from HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and CMS seek to tie healthcare providers and patients across the care continuum closer together but historical disparities in technology adoption between healthcare sectors could pose challenges for providers in post-acute and long-term care settings.
The information-blocking and interoperability rules, provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act, were released last year but implementation was subsequently pushed back to April 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Under the information-blocking provisions, providers are barred from blocking patients and other providers from accessing health data unless they meet one of eight specific exceptions.