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A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19?

Bill of Health

Remote accommodations were granted freely during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, but in 2021, the in-person aspect of teaching and learning was suddenly deemed essential, and at many institutions, remote classes came to an end. That same medication rendered him high-risk for severe illness or death from COVID-19.

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Does It Really Matter How the COVID-19 Pandemic Started?

Bill of Health

By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, much air time and social media space has been allocated to the lab leak vs. natural spillover dispute regarding the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Debating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic is a fool’s errand. Generally, COVID-19 specimens are handled in BSL-3 labs.

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Hospitals face lowest readmission fines since 2014, analysis finds

Healthcare Dive

More than 2,200 hospitals will incur penalties, the lowest number in nearly a decade, as the CMS adjusted its calculations for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Patient preferences for accessing medical data are shifting, says ONC

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" The agency said in the data brief it used HINTS to assess progress in patient access amidst the implementation of Cures Rule provisions during the COVID-19 pandemic, "which likely increased demand for access to online medical records." in 2018 and 25.6%

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Workplace Accommodations in a Post-COVID Era

Bill of Health

The silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has opened the door to new opportunities to improve our society. The workplace accommodations gained during COVID-19 are nothing new to the community of workers with disabilities; some workers had already been approved to work at home prior to the pandemic. By Scott J.

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ONC: More patients are downloading their medical records and using portals

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In other words, the statistics include patient portal use before the COVID-19 pandemic – and before the final rule implementing key patient access provisions of the 21st Century Cures Act. The four in 10 individuals who accessed a patient portal in 2020 represents a 13 percentage point increase from 2014.

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Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures

Bill of Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified this legal challenge and highlighted the need to treat liability as a key legal preparedness issue. The demand for liability protections reemerged in 2009 during H1N1, in attenuated form during the 2014-15 West Africa Ebola public health emergency, and, prominently, during COVID-19.

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