Bill of Health

JANUARY 23, 2024

In 2021, the federal government made the state plan amendment option available temporarily through the American Rescue Plan. However, in 2009, the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act restored this potential benefit for lawfully residing pregnant people and children.

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The American Hospital Association (AHA), on behalf of its nearly 5,000 member hospitals and health systems, sent a letter urging the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to take immediate action to allow telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances before the Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers expire.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

Health Populi’s Hot Points: John Mackey has held this view on food for a long time. Mackey told NPR in this interview that, “In fascism, the government doesn’t own the means of production, but they do control it. And that’s what’s happening with these reforms.”

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Whistleblowers continue to be one of the federal government’s greatest assets in FCA cases, as whistleblowers filed 652 qui tam suits in 2022 with recovery totaling $1.9 The government initiated 296 FCA cases on its own last year without input of a relator, which is the highest volume of DOJ initiated cases since the 1986 FCA amendments.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S. Health citizens in the U.S.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“HITECH” is the acronym for the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH Act), which is title XIII of division A and title IV of division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Pub. What about Artificial Intelligence? In 2020, the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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AIHC

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

“HITECH” is the acronym for the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH Act), which is title XIII of division A and title IV of division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Pub. What about Artificial Intelligence? In 2020, the U.S.

HIPAA 52

HIPAA Compliance Governance Health Insurance 52

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2024

by Alice Bryk Silveira The alarming rise in diabetes and obesity rates in the United States has placed significant strain on health care systems and poses a serious public health threat. Despite international momentum and calls from public health experts, the United States remains behind. Since 2009, the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Public Health COVID-19 FDA Governance 111

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Vatsala Kapur, Senior Director of Government Affairs at Bamboo Health. With a post-pandemic spotlight on mental health and substance use disorder challenges, Congress and the Biden administration are working on multiple plans to address these issues. 111-5), mental health providers were left out of the equation.

Governance 98

Governance Public Health 98

Jane Sarashon

MARCH 17, 2022

The Commonwealth Fund has tracked primary care access for many years, and over time has found the United States to lack the kind of primary care “backbone” that many wealthy nations have — whose health citizens also enjoy much better health outcomes that relate to easier access to health care.

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Doctors COVID-19 Governance Health Insurance 52

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. billion was raised in US initial public offerings, hitting its lowest since 2009.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

As the Congressional Research Service puts it: “[i]n FOIA, Congress sought to establish a statutory scheme that embodied ‘a broad philosophy of ‘freedom of information’ and ensured ‘the availability of Government information necessary to an informed electorate.’” FOIA is among the most democratic of America’s laws. Anyone can use it.

Governance 195

Governance COVID-19 Public Health 195

Hall Render

APRIL 26, 2024

Vincent discord reignites after hospital revokes doctors’ privileges New Mexicans to Know: Army veteran Nancy Parson brings passion for health care to Las Cruces Army veteran Nancy Parson brings passion for health care to Las Cruces Missed deadlines lead to $11.5M

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Nursing Homes US Department of Health and Human Services Nurses Medicaid 40

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Still, interviews with government and school officials demonstrate d a widespread belief that expulsion of pregnant students was required by law. The hospital, working in partnership with the government, was preparing to open a maternity wing specifically to reach pregnant adolescents.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 9, 2023

Those HIPAA updates were followed by the incorporation of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which saw the introduction of the Breach Notification Rule in 2009 and the Omnibus Final Rule in 2013.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

The so-called “safe haven” laws to which Justice Coney Barrett was referring were passed in every state from 1999 to 2009, to designate places where or people to whom an unharmed baby may be legally and anonymously relinquished and then adopted. Bush, a Republican, anti-abortion supporter of government funded faith-based social services.

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Health Populi

MARCH 5, 2020

But most Americans also get the politicized nature of the coronavirus and say they’re less likely to vote for President Trump in November based on his handling of the public health threat, according to a just-released survey from Protect Our Care fielded by Public Policy Polling. Anthony Fauci, who led the U.S.

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COVID-19 Public Health Public Health Professionals Health Insurance 111

Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As much as we like preemption, no basis for preemption exists based with respect to the informed consent requirement of the statute’s provision governing emergency use authorized (“EUA”) products, such as (at the time) COVID-19 vaccines. 555, 573 (2009), and these antivaxxers didn’t come close. Levine , 555 U.S.

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