Becker's Healthcare April 1, 2020
Laura Dyrda

The rules around telehealth continue to evolve and the federal government now wants hospitals to report more about COVID-19.

Here are six key technology and financial updates for CIOs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1. The Trump administration requested hospitals send data on COVID-19 testing as well as bed capacity and supplies to help the administration’s surveillance efforts of the coronavirus on March 29. This is not a requirement, but CMS Administrator Seema Verma said in an interview with NPR that they are seeing a “great response” from hospitals and have not had a problem with gathering the information so far. Hospitals can submit information by emailing data in a spreadsheet to fema-hhs-covid-diagnostics-tf@fema.dhs.gov.

2. Telehealth continues to spread as the primary...

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