HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

What Has Everyone Excited about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11-year-olds? With the rollout this month of the COVID-19 vaccine for those 5-11 years of age, we can now directly protect children with asthma for whom COVID-19 infection is an even bigger hazard for our children during the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 23, 2022

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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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. In fact, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 2 million people in 2018 , and by 1.9 Losing health insurance in the pandemic: a financial toxic side effect.

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Bill of Health

JULY 20, 2022

Section 340B of the Public Health Service Act requires that pharmaceutical manufacturers give discounts on specified outpatient drugs to certain covered entities who typically serve low-income or otherwise underserved patients, including hospitals and clinics. By Amy Cook, JD, Jonathan Larsen, JD, MPP, and Sabrina Ruchelli, JD.

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2021

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. The first chart details what younger people, ages 14 to 22, searched online in 2018 compared with 2020. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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Hall Render

MARCH 1, 2023

On February 10, 2023, the Office for Human Research Protections (“OHRP”) announced that the COVID-19 single institutional review board (“IRB”) exception determination will expire on May 11, 2023, consistent with the expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”).

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

When the Secretary issues a Notice of HIPAA Enforcement Discretion, it only applies to the emergency area for the emergency period specified in the public health emergency declaration, and only to hospitals that have initiated a disaster protocol.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Rock Health has conducted a consumer digital health study for several years, giving us the ability to compare longitudinal findings from year to year.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 13, 2023

The previous articles in this series laid out some of the issues in health care affecting testing , and the value of data. Speeding up Test Development We’ve seen with COVID-19 how quickly a virus can evolve and how hard it is to design both tests and vaccinations that accommodate different variants.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 7, 2022

"Our experience during the pandemic was that telehealth meant our member psychiatrists were able to treat more patients, which was critical as we faced a mental health crisis,” said APA CEO and Medical Director Dr. Saul Levin in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 13, 2020

A qualitative RAND Corporation study finds that psychiatrists offering telemedicine for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic have had largely positive perceptions of the transition. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, a variety of logistical and regulatory hurdles prevented many psychiatrists from using telemedicine.

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Health Populi

JUNE 2, 2020

There was great news published last week in An Update on Cancer Deaths in the United States from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): cancer mortality rates have declined by 26% over 20 years, between 1999 to 2018. In 2020, there’s a new third-place cause for mortality in America: COVID-19. One study, by Wadhera et.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. What's less certain, however, is what that utilization will look like in the future, particularly as the end of the public health emergency looms.

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Health Populi

MAY 5, 2022

When it comes to peoples’ relationship to consumer packaged goods (CPG), the public health crisis has indeed impacted consumers’ purchasing behaviors and definition of “value,” based on IRI’s latest analysis of CPG shifts in 2022 and 2023. and better-for-you ingredients and functional benefits.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

.” The study of older Americans found that, About 60% believe their cell phone has made them feel more connected to family/friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. 43% of older adults use their cell phone more frequently than before COVID-19.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 14, 2020

" Ayalasomayajula, a public health professional with a background in epidemiology, is the president and founder of Reach, whose mission is to improve health experiences for both patients and providers. In 2018, the Reach team selected maternal morbidity and mortality as a focus area. I am so done!"

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 4, 2023

By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer On May 25, 2023 , merely six weeks before the Wuhan Biosafety lab lost its NIH funding amid the controversy of possible lab leaks and connection with COVID-19, the United States proudly opened the doors of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), the 14th biosafety level 4 lab in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

feel this way, up from 56% in 2018 and 2019. say the future of America is a significant source of stress, as discussed in Stress in the Time of COVID-19, Volume Two , a report covering a poll of U.S. residents through the lens of health consumers and, especially this year and in this study, health citizens.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. By 2018, Medscape conducted a separate study from the Lifestyle report, titled the National Physician Burnout & Depression Report. And 8 in 10 doctors felt burnout before the start of COVID-19.

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. In the past 12 years, the percent of Americans feeling they were thriving hit a peak in 2018, as the life evaluations line graph illustrates. GfK looked at consumers across four significant stressful events: 9-11, natural disasters, the Great Recession, and COVID-19.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Workers’ earnings increased 27% in the period and inflation, 19%. Workers receiving health insurance through their jobs have seen their portfolio of benefits changing over the years. In 2020, KFF found that 89% of large companies offered a telemedicine benefit, compared with 82% in 2019 and 74% in 2018.

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Health Populi

JUNE 27, 2022

Declines in preventive care services like cancer screenings and blood glucose testing concern employers, whose continued to cover health insurance for employees during the pandemic. from the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019 to 1.29 But flat growth is expected for 2022, Castlight forecasts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

Other hazards concern enduring ramifications from the COVID-19 pandemic, such as supply-chain shortfalls, inadequate emergency shortfalls and poor outcomes resulting from telehealth workflow. Cybersecurity has also been a recurrent concern , with the organization sounding the alarm on vulnerabilities back in 2018.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated food insecurity in the U.S., a situation that was already challenging for millions of American families before the public health crisis emerged. Nutrition insecurity can lead to obesity, Type-2 diabetes, and the increasing risk of severe illness from COVID-19 and eventual hospitalization.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2021

I participated with the Aetna Foundation and team on examining the health equity aspects of this study in 2018, linked here. Health Populi’s Hot Points: This last chart details some data points from the Los Alamos 2021 profile, which landed the community the top spot for healthiest place in the United States this year.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Need for Community Central Healthcare For decades, pharmacies have been a key pillar of community health. They provide both a convenient and less formal environment for those who cannot easily access or choose not to access other public health services for various different reasons.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JULY 11, 2024

by Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado There is a wealth of research demonstrating that corruption — the abuse of entrusted power for private gain — has contributed to weakening health systems and worsening public health globally. This is a massive blind spot, as mental health problems are a growing concern worldwide.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 6, 2020

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, connected health and RPM are more important than ever, because they enable physicians to monitor patients without having to come into contact with them, thus preventing the spread of the novel coronavirus.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The insights also can help healthcare organizations navigate vaccine distribution, as well as the ebbs and flows of patient volumes due to COVID-19 in the year ahead, according to the new report. “Regulators, for their part, have tried to smooth the way for a pivot to virtual during the public health emergency.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

This is the BA divide in longevity: “For people with and without a BA, racial divides narrowed by 70% between 1990 and 2018, while educational divides more than doubled for both Black and White people,” Case and Deaton conclude. They term that BA degree a “life expectancy premium.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Social determinants of health: broadband as a “Super Determinant.” ” With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., ” The pandemic turbocharged this phenomenon, which was called out by Brittney Crock Bauerly, JD, in a 2018 essay for Network for Public Health Law. .

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Health Populi

JUNE 1, 2022

MMI 2018 Health Care for Typical Working Family of Four in America Will Cost $28,166. MMI 2017 Health Care Costs for Family of Four Will Reach $27,000 in 2017. MMI 2019 Milliman Finds PPO for Family of 4 in 2019 Will Cost $28,386.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 2, 2022

The Stony Brook Medicine health system, which, before COVID-19, had already grown from a two-hospital system to a four-hospital system with the inclusion of Eastern Long Island Hospital and Southampton Hospital, reflects a diverse and geographically widespread patient population of more than 1.4 Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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