HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Mental health is the defining public health crisis of our time. According to the CDC , 42% of high school students felt so sad or hopeless that they could not engage in their regular activities for at least two weeks in 2021, an increase of 50% from 2011.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

According to vice president Ted Hill, it can modernize how public health agencies serve today’s needs. Casetivity can ingest, standardize, and share health data. Strategic Solution Group, LLC (SSG) has a low-code software platform called Casetivity. do so in different ways and often have incomplete data.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Concerning Times for Seniors The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers falls to be a public health concern, and with good reason. An AI/ML-Powered Solution At a time when fall prevention is emerging as a leading public health concern, AI/ML-enabled technologies offer a promising solution.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, it is important to note that Israel provides women with the opportunity to use their cryopreserved eggs (frozen for “social” or “medical” reasons), due to its generous public funding scheme of IVF. Currently only one small Israeli public health maintenance organization (Meuhedet) partly subsidizes SEF.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Data Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011 Data Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011 Analyze Root Causes and Make Improvements The benefits of incident reporting in healthcare help organizations delve into the specifics of what went wrong and why. average for private industries for staff injuries and illnesses.

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American Medical Compliance

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

” Starting in 2011, a study led by Dr. Tait Shanafelt, professor of medicine and chief wellness officer at Stanford Medicine in California, has tracked the wellbeing of doctors and professionals across all other industries in the US. Jack Resneck Jr. doctors was 62.8%. These numbers have increased from 38.2% in 2020, 43.9%

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Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The Families First Coronavirus Recovery Act, passed on March 18, 2020, includes increased federal funding for state Medicaid agencies to provide care during the national public health emergency. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Services and Outcomes, 2020 , 137 Obstetrics & Gynecology 225 – 233 (Feb.

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Healthcare Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CMS announced today a further extension until February 1, 2023, of the deadline for its publication of the long-awaited final rule on the use of extrapolation and the application of a fee-for-service adjuster (FFS Adjuster) in risk adjustment data validation (RADV) audits of Medicare Advantage organizations (MAOs). FOOTNOTES. [1]

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

The challenge is to make the records of a patient’s history across multiple doctors, multiple years and multiple health systems both actively and conveniently accessible and viewable. March 2011). Development of the electronic health record. Alexandru, A.G., Radu, I.M., & Bizon, M.L. Informatica Economica , 22 (2), 43–54.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Entering the third year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS seeks to clarify the period of time during which MAOs must comply with the special requirements at 42 CFR 422.100(m) to ensure access for enrollees to covered services throughout the disaster or emergency period.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2023

This approach originated in 2011, is a smarter way to stop the cycle of crime and an alternative to incarceration. million drug-related arrests, and many offenders suffer from co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. It has surged among law enforcement professionals: Every year, there are approximately 1.5

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Frequently labelled a scholar-activist, she combines academic research and scholarship that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy. Although I’m the only Senior Fellow focusing on global health work at PFC, affiliated researchers also contribute enormously to GHRP. 1991), M.P.H.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The provisions also prohibit entities that receive federal funds from denying admission or discriminating against any applicant for training or study based on their reluctance or willingness to counsel, recommend, perform, or assist in certain health services or research activities because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 10, 2023

According to the preamble to the 2011 Final Rule: A purchaser of an MDDS who has only used, configured, or modified the MDDS in accordance with the original manufacturer’s labeling, instructions for use, intended use, original design, and validation would not be considered a manufacturer for purposes of this regulation. 10] 76 Fed.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. health care versus the OECD peer nations. fall below the OECD average, and the proportion of people who self-report that they are in “good health” is the third highest in the OECD. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. For the U.S.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

In 2011 , 45% of pregnancies in the United States were unintended, and, because there was a protected right to reproductive freedom, 42% of these were terminated through abortion at the request of the birthing parent. A Long History of Wrongful Prosecutions.

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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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SQA

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This in turn will facilitate EU regulators’ assessment of the safety and effectiveness of medicines, for the benefit of public health. Health Canada seized products from the clinic after Public Health Ontario notified the Department of a case of lead poisoning following the use of products obtained from the clinic.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” The reason: The existing document of the EU GMP Guideline dates back to 2011 and no longer corresponds to the state of the art in various areas or does not consider increasingly important new technologies for the GMP field, according to the EMA. ” The requirements for providers (e.g.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 14, 2019

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014 – Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2019

“How should we define ‘health?'” ” a 2011 BMJ article asked. Eight years later, in May 2019, I read Reimagining Health – Flourishing in the 7th May 2019 issue of JAMA with some feelings of déjà vu. And I daresay, health reform. In this essay, three faculty members from the Harvard T.H.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. Agencies Funding Levels/Description Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) $1.5

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Governor Kasich has led the Buckeye State since 2011, and his second and final term ends in January 2019. “Citizens scare politicians,” I heard Governor John Kasich say to Nicole Wallace on her show Deadline: White House yesterday, just hours from today’s U.S. 2018 midterm elections.

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Hall Render

MARCH 16, 2022

It’s also the first bicameral legislation to include community project funding (previously known as “earmarks”) since they were banned in 2011. billion for the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund, a $352.2 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant, a $254.3 million increase. billion increase.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Since the FDA requires pre-approval of any warnings about off-label uses, preemption at some point should have been pre-ordained under the Mensing ( 2011+1 ) independence principle, but off-label use did not really figure in Zofran ’s analysis. OTC drugs also have an express preemption provision, but it contains an exception for Prop 65.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The plaintiffs here put together a strong slate of experts, at least based on credentials, with an epidemiologist who will be taking over as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health as their lead. 2011), which might have been our third example above. 2023 WL 8711617, *2.

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Drug & Device Law

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, it strikes a balance between state and federal power on issues of public health and safety, and raises questions about whether our country’s approach to regulation and litigation makes sense for pharmaceuticals and medical devices (spoiler alert: it doesn’t). 604 (2011), and Mutual Pharmaceutical Co.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 30, 2023

The side it picked was against public health and the authority of FDA, which is charged by Congress with protecting public health. IMS Health, Inc. , 552 (2011), and especially in the months after the Supreme Court revisited the subject of content-based speech restrictions more generally in City of Austin v.

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Drug & Device Law

MARCH 2, 2023

Commentators beyond this Blog have described how this bent affects contraceptive choice and public health. As to one defendant, the court looked solely to whether plaintiffs’ claims “arise out of or relate to” contacts with Georgia that began in 2019, even though the implants were in 2011 to 2013. 2023 WL 2111346, *6.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 12, 2022

223, 231-33 (2011), holding that the Vaccine Act preempted all design defect claims asserted by claimants who rejected Vaccine Act awards and sought to litigate their claims instead. The Supreme Court did its part in Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC , 562 U.S. Now comes DeCostanzo v. at 226 (footnote and quotation marks omitted).

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Drug & Device Law

OCTOBER 7, 2022

While most contraceptives are short-acting, in part to allow for the possibility of conception when desired, there is clearly a role from public health perspective—among other perspectives—for long-acting and permanent contraception. (Our posts go back for more than six years.) The facts of Garcia are sparse. 2022 WL 4536240, *1.

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Drug & Device Law

JUNE 28, 2022

In enacting the FDCA, Congress created the FDA and charged it with “promot[ing] the public health by promptly and efficiently reviewing clinical research and taking appropriate action on the marketing of regulated products in a timely manner.” 2011), aff’d , 741 F.3d 393(b)(2)(B). Zogenix I , 2014 WL 1454696, at *1-2.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 10, 2022

Public Service Comm’n , 447 U.S. IMS Health Inc., 552 (2011), believing that case stands for the proposition that content-based laws are subject to strict scrutiny. The court found West Virginia had two substantial interests – protecting public health and preventing deception. Recht at *3. Recht at *4.

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