Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This sentiment has been relatively stable since 2000 except for two big outlying years: a spike of 69% in 2006, and a low-point in 2003 of 42%. Note that over one-half of people who were ill had serious problems paying at least one type of medical bill, from hospitals and prescription drugs to the doctor’s office and ambulance services.

Governance 73

Governance Medical Billing Medicaid Medicaid 73

Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. The WeDoctor app, part of Tencent, deployed 20,000 online doctors donating time for free. Will this be the scenario in the U.S.?

COVID-19 122

COVID-19 Telemedicine Medicare Medicare 122

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In 2003, Denise wrote that, “eHealth is the means to deliver responsive healthcare tailored to the needs of the citizen,” invoking that “C”-word quite purposefully. He was the first person to speak to me about “health citizenship.”. In the U.S., voting in 2020 has everything to do with our health baked into every aspect of our lives.

COVID-19 18

COVID-19 ACA Public Health Nurses 18

Bill of Health

JANUARY 5, 2023

Enacted in November 2003, PBAB banned all intact dilation and extractions (D&X), a late-stage abortion procedure, without medical exceptions to protect the pregnant individual’s health. The 2003-2004 National Abortion Federation v. Within days of PBAB’s passage, several physicians brought suit in National Abortion Federation v.

Doctors 195

Doctors Hospitals Governance Compliance 195

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The National Health Act (2003) and its accompanying regulations apply to fertility care generally, together with the guidelines that apply to reproductive health and fertility specialists. Surrogacy is specifically regulated under the Children’s Act of 2005, which sets out the legal requirements for a valid surrogacy agreement.

Health Insurance 162

Health Insurance Public Health Doctors 162

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Bush introduced HSAs by signing into law the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003. To ensure a purchase is a qualified medical expense, a doctor might need to write a letter indicating why an item should be reimbursable via healthcare spending.

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Doctors Medicare Medicare Public Health 113

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2021

"For us, that familiarity helped when the public health emergency hit because many of our patients understood not only how to use it, but why it worked for connecting with their doctor." The physicians in Cary Medical Group's practice have been using Allscripts Professional EHR since 2003. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Doctors COVID-19 Telemedicine Public Health 199

HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

African American adults are more likely to report they cannot afford to see a doctor, leading to worse health outcomes. Spanish speaking doctors) to other clinics and patients, or do I need to invest in new approaches (e.g. As a doctor, I was trained to believe that I am in charge of a person’s health.

Doctors 98

Doctors COVID-19 Health Outcomes Health Insurance 98

Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

Article #3 in my deep dive here extends the second analysis into digital health information, next focusing on Americans’ use of quality information on doctors. The authors call for improved regulation from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the U.S.

ACA 102

ACA Health Insurance Prescription Drug Pricing Bioethics 102

Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2025

In the 2008 hepatitis crisis in Nevada, doctors and nurses failed to report cases due to fears of whistleblower retaliation. During the 2003 SARS outbreak, lead whistleblower Dr. Jiang was put under house arrest for his outspokenness. At the start of Covid-19, the Chinese government criminalized Dr.

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COVID-19 Public Health Governance State Policy 130

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When Congress passed a federal law banning the procedure in 2003, the bill did not include a health exception. This strategy became especially salient during the fight over dilation and extraction, a procedure that the antiabortion movement called partial-birth abortion.

Medicaid 147

Medicaid Medicaid Doctors Public Health 147

Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Defendant] does not deny that it, the doctor, and the hospital are potential joint tortfeasors. . . . 2003 WL 27423681, at *4 (N.D. 2003 WL 27423679, at *3 (N.D. Ohio July 11, 2003) (same), reconsideration denied , 2003 WL 27423680 (N.D. Synthes Corp. , 30, 2007) (“joinder of the malpractice claim. . .

Malpractice 102

Malpractice Hospitals Doctors 102

Drug & Device Law

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

All connections alleged were with [the lead defendant] and his doctors. Barr Laboratories, Inc. , 2d 418, 422-23 (W.D.N.Y. 2005), aff’d , 218 Fed. 2007); Foister v. Purdue Pharma, L.P., 2d 693, 705 (E.D. Riccelli v. Rector , 2023 WL 6267079 (Ohio C.P.

Doctors 59

Doctors Hospitals 59

Drug & Device Law

MAY 26, 2023

644 (2003), but not to Pike. They can regulate doctors, pharmacies, and grocery stores, but cannot ban an FDA-approved drug like they can pork that comes from pigs not raised in a specific way, the gist of the California law at issue in NPP. Walsh , 538 U.S.

FDA 59

FDA Licensing Doctors Governance 59

Drug & Device Law

MAY 30, 2022

The law presumes that licensed doctors know what they are doing. 1978), where a hypertensive patient was injured after being injected with the defendant’s drug – despite warnings that “expressly directed the doctor administering the drug to refrain from giving it to a patient with hypertension.” Best Pharmacal , 577 P.2d Robins Co. ,

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Doctors Licensing Informed Consent Hospitals 59