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Three Challenges Impacting Healthcare License Verifications

Provider Trust

Organizations across the healthcare continuum have experienced several workforce trends that are creating gaps in license monitoring and verifications. Hospitals and health systems continue to find themselves desperately searching for available frontline nurses to relieve their exhausted staff and make up for vacant positions due to burnout.

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Medical School Curricula Should Reflect Disease Burden

Bill of Health

disease burden in 2016 and how often conditions are mentioned in the 2020 edition of First Aid for the USMLE Step 1 , an 832 page book sometimes referred to as the medical student’s bible. This means that several public health problems that cause significant disease burden — like motor vehicle accidents or gun violence — are barely tested.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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How Will New FDA Hearing Aid Regulations Impact Health Plans?

HIT Consultant

. – Prescription hearing aids will require a consumer to have a prescription for a hearing aid from a physician, audiologist or a licensed hearing instrument specialist. MarkeTrak 10:Hearing Aids in an Era of Disruption and DTC/OTC Devices, [link] Goman, Adele M, Am J Public Health 2016 Oct;106(10):1820-2.

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New York Court of Appeals Upholds Adult Home Admission Regulations

NY Health Law

In October of 2012, New Yorks Office of Mental Health (OMH) issued two Clinical Advisories stating that certain large adult homes provided housing experiences for persons with serious mental illness that were not clinically appropriate to their needs and were not conducive to their rehabilitation or recovery.

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Managing Healthcare Compliance in Florida

MedTrainer

The Florida Hospital Association (FHA) supports hospitals in their mission to deliver quality care by working with state lawmakers to find solutions that increase access and quality of care, while reducing costs to the state’s health care system. These laws define medical marijuana, regulate its use, and oversee licensed dispensaries.

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Managing Healthcare Compliance in Pennsylvania

MedTrainer

Pennsylvania Healthcare Compliance Resources The Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) is responsible for safeguarding public health, preventing disease outbreaks, and ensuring access to quality healthcare services. The Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine is responsible for regulating medical provider licensing requirements.