Kat Jercich

Kat Jercich is the Senior Editor at Healthcare IT News. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Advocate, and others. Previously, she was Vice President and Managing Editor at Rewire.News.
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Kat Jercich
01:40 pm
January 22, 2021
By using patient age, sex and daily clinical state, the machine learning model also predicts the probability of in-hospital mortality.
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Kat Jercich
10:09 am
January 22, 2021
As would-be vaccine recipients scramble for appointment time slots, in too many cases "the technology is just being used wrong," says one exec.
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Kat Jercich
03:17 pm
January 21, 2021
The strategy includes a proposed executive order that will direct federal agencies to ramp up collection, sharing and analysis of data to "support an equitable COVID-19 response and recovery."
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Kat Jercich
12:01 pm
January 21, 2021
The changes herald a major overhaul for agencies struggling to respond to the COVID-19 crisis.

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Kat Jercich
02:57 pm
January 20, 2021
"Telehealth matters," reads the synopsis of the new bill, which also has provisions prohibiting Medicaid from specifying originating and distant sites for reimbursement purposes.
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Kat Jercich
12:49 pm
January 20, 2021
The company had donated to the 2020 campaigns of a dozen federal legislators who went on to object to the presidential election results.
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Kat Jercich
03:19 pm
January 19, 2021
Experts at the American Telemedicine Association's EDGE policy conference on Tuesday said that cybersecurity is a shared responsibility and should be treated as such.
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Kat Jercich
12:13 pm
January 19, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden announced this week that he had nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to be the assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Kat Jercich
03:21 pm
January 15, 2021
The breach lasted for more than a year and resulted in the disclosure of individuals' names, Social Security numbers and other protected health information.
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Kat Jercich
02:18 pm
January 15, 2021
Accolade intends to strengthen its ability to provide users with second opinions, using 2nd.MD's provider network.
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