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# Transition to Telehealth Despite Digital Divide

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2021-01-11 

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With so much evolving in healthcare and technology, it can be hard to keep up. And it may be difficult sometimes to see where the work we and our peers do is applied to help caregivers and patients.

That’s why we’ve hand-selected these recent articles our team agrees are worth a quick read affecting the world of healthcare interoperability and other related issues.<https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5598>

- [VA Administers Over 146,000 COVID-19 Vaccine Doses to Date](https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5598)
- [VA Expands Access to Telehealth Services During COVID-19 Pandemic for Older, Rural and Homeless Veterans](https://www.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=5600)
- [HHS Finalizes New AKS Safe Harbors for Patient Engagement and CMS-Sponsored Arrangements](https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/hhs-finalizes-new-aks-safe-harbors-for-9335064/)
- [Top 10 Research Priorities for U.S. Military En Route Combat Casualty Care](https://academic.oup.com/milmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/milmed/usaa480/6064178)
- [Maricopa County Vaccine Operations 'Dramatically Slowed' By Arizona System Glitches](https://fronterasdesk.org/content/1647446/maricopa-county-vaccine-operations-dramatically-slowed-arizona-system-glitches)
- [Florida Counties Use Eventbrite to Schedule Vaccine Appointments](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/florida-counties-use-eventbrite-schedule-vaccine-appointments)
- [HL7 FHIR Accelerator for Translational and Clinical Research; Vulcan Launches](https://blog.hl7.org/gravity-project-completes-food-insecurity-and-housing-data-identification-0?utm_content=150961316&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-74519008)
- [On Interoperability’s Role in Better Health](https://www.futureofpersonalhealth.com/future-of-healthcare/on-interoperabilitys-role-in-better-health/)
- [Sorting out AI, ML, DL, and NLP](https://www.healthitanswers.net/sorting-out-ai-ml-dl-and-nlp-010621/)
- [Rural Watauga Medical Uses Telehealth to Care for Twice the Typical Number of Patients](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/rural-watauga-medical-uses-telehealth-care-twice-typical-number-patients)
- [The Transition to Telehealth during the First Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a National Sample of Patients](https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06358-0)
- [Germany Enables Free National Use of SNOMED CT](https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/emea/germany-enables-free-national-use-snomed-ct)

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