Kaiser Health News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

In a 2007 draft guidance document, the FDA suggested that tests of new oximeters could “include a sufficient number of subjects with dark skin pigmentation, e.g., 30%.” The FDA’s response was modest. ” The studies were required to have only 10 subjects. “A less crappy device is the solution.”

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Common Standard Needed to Link Providers, Payers, and Exchanges CMS developed NPPES to assign unique identifiers to healthcare providers on an individual and organizational basis, establishing the National Provider Identifier (NPI) that has been in effect since 2007.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 8, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: While the 2007-8 Great Recession was considered more of a “He-Cession,” this round of U.S. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

When the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) developed the concept of the Triple Aim in 2007, it was founded on three pillars: enhancing patient experience, improving population health, and lowering per capita health care costs. Four in ten U.S. As we consider re-investing in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 7, 2022

We also discovered that JNMA was not included in the standard Elsevier ScienceDirect package, restricting our access to full texts from issues after the 2007 archive created by the National Library of Medicine.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

COVID-19 137

COVID-19 Health Insurance Hospitals Public Health 137

HIPAA Journal

MARCH 10, 2022

The text of the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is full of HIPAA exceptions – adding to the complexity of complying with the Act and often resulting in organizations and public agencies applying far more stringent restrictions than necessary. Requires a health plan to report information for the purpose of audits, etc.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 3, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In this first week of January 2022 with CES kicking off its show of digital health innovations, along with other consumer categories of electronics at home and in connected cars ( which I covered here in Health Populi back in 2007 before I began to attend CES!),

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Health Populi

JUNE 12, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: The USDA Report on Household Food Security in the U.S. The prevalence of food insecurity for children in 2017 was equal to that of the 2007 pre-recession level of 8.3%. in 2017 , published in September 2018, found that 12% of U.S.

Governance 69

Governance Public Health 69

SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

TR 43 was originally published in 2007 and revised in 2013 to address industry feedback. ISO standard 22716:2007, Cosmetics – Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) – Guidelines on Good Manufacturing Practices) and the extent to which it would be practicable for GMP regulations for cosmetic products to be consistent with such standard.

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Health Populi

JULY 16, 2021

The first blog post I wrote on Health Populi back when this site launched at Labor Day 2007 was on this very topic — that the huge percentage of gross domestic product the U.S. The care economy cannot be easily or rationally separated from the fiscal economy.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

. “Provisional life expectancy at birth in the first half of 2020 was the lowest level since 2006 for both the total population and for males, and was the lowest level since 2007 for females,” the report observes.

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COVID-19 Health Care Access Health Outcomes Public Health 112

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart compares gains in life expectancy (longevity) between two periods, 2002-2007 and 2012-2017. life expectancy gained in the earlier period, 2002-2007, ranked relatively high with OECD countries like the UK, Australia, Canada, Hungary, Italy, New Zealand, and others.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The APA has been quantifying Stress in America since 2007; for context, at the end of that year The Great Recession kicked in , and in response President Obama’s team put together assistance to bolster the national economy, jobs, and health technology (codified in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act).

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Bioethics Public Health 77

Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Hill, A n Analysis of Racial/Ethnic Disproportionality and Disparity at the National, State, and County Levels , Casey-CSSP Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare 1, 1 (2007), [link]. [3] Health Care Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care and Kinship Care , 136 Pediatrics e1131, e1132 (2015). [6]

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Public HIT companies were not spared in the market downturn that began in January 2022, losing an astonishing 34% over the last 6 months, with an overwhelming 56 out of 68 tracked companies ending the first half of the year with negative returns.

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US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Health Insurance Telemedicine 98

New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. 1657(a), the Commissioner released a notice regarding Executive Order No.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2022

Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) has issued a threat brief providing information on the cyber organizations of the Russian Intelligence Services which pose a threat to organizations in the United States, including the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

Rickie Solinger is a historian, and the author of Pregnancy and Power: A History of Reproductive Politics in the United States (2007), Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion and Welfare in the United States (2002), and Wake Up, Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2018

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: The uniquely American challenge of health disparities, especially relating to race, is a topic I’ve covered many times since the launch of Health Populi in 2007.

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FDA Health Outcomes Public Health 89

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This growth rate for health care costs exceeds every period measured since the high of 7.2% recorded in 1990-2007. The bar chart illustrates the factors contributing to growth in personal health care spending. For context, note that general price inflation in the U.S. for the 12 months ending January 2019 according to the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Carhart’s (2007) ruling that judges ought to defer to legislatures “where there is medical and scientific uncertainty.” This is despite the fact that nearly every major international medical and mental health association that works on gender identity care has widely accepted GAC for children and adolescents and opposes bans.

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Bill of Health

MAY 5, 2022

The Mexican Supreme Court not only stated reproductive freedom is a constitutional right that belongs to women and non-binary persons, but also reaffirmed that criminal law should not be the guide for public health policies regarding abortion.

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Public Health Doctors Governance Compliance 69

Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2023

Note that Russia, studied in the surveys between 2007 and 2022, was not included in the 2023 research). On the upside for health and trust, the most-trusted institutional leader in this year’s study is scientists, with 76% of global citizens trusting scientists (fairly even with last year with a 1 point uptick in trust).

Public Health 90

Public Health Governance World Health Hospitals 90

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This definition of scientific uncertainty — one inextricably linked to constitutional conflict and political polarization — shaped litigation at the Supreme Court, which upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in 2007. The Court in Gonzales v.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There’s a sort of health care “shrinkflation” that has been shaping patients-as-payors of medical bills. Dr. Robert Pearl has recently written about this, and the phenomenon has been a major recurring theme in this Health Populi blog since its inception in 2007 – when I launched this site in the midst of The Great Recession.

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Prescription Drug Pricing Medical Billing Health Insurance Public Health 72