Bill of Health

DECEMBER 18, 2023

One place where aging adults are likely to experience elder abuse occurs in long-term care (LTC) environments; this has been described as a “public health concern” in relation to the nursing home setting. Wisconsin followed the example of New Jersey passing its own state program in 2018 known as the Senior Safe Camera Program.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At Health Populi and THINK-Health, we celebrate the birthday of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), allied with the United Nations. World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. The post On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Sholkoff This has been a busy year in research and regulation addressing addictive design by social media platforms, marked by advisories or initiatives from the Surgeon General , American Psychiatric Association , and American Academy of Pediatrics that spotlight the major public health hazard of social media. 299 (2023). & Tech.

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Bill of Health

JULY 15, 2022

Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities. Am J Public Health. Cost Per Event Averted in Cancer Trials in the Adjuvant Setting From 2018 to 2022. What to Know About the Alzheimer Drug Aducanumab (Aduhelm). JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jun 6. 2022 Jun 16:e1-e5.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

Although telehealth boomed during the pandemic, the uptake of other forms of digital tools dropped after 2018, according to research carried out by Accenture across eight countries. “We need to co-create and work together with patients.”

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2021

“The partnership comes in line with the aspirations of the [Saudi] Ministry of Health, the Council of Cooperative Health Insurance [CCHI], and the Central Bank [SAMA] in driving digital transformation in the sector in accordance with the objectives of the Kingdom’s Vision 2030.” ” THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 107-115, January 2022.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The patients in the retrospective cohort study underwent at least three consecutive biennial screening examinations performed between September 13, 2004, and December 21, 2018, at nine of the country's breast screening centers. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 19, 2023

TimisoaraHackerTeam is believed to be a financially motivated threat group, which in contrast to many cybercriminal and ransomware groups, has no qualms about attacking the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector and appears to actively target HPH sector organizations, mainly conducting attacks on large organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 19, 2023

This GIS (Geographic Information System) solution is provided to health systems, the emergency response community, and global public health leaders to streamline and improve decision-making. About HSR.health HSR.health is an innovation-first, global leader in health-focused geospatial data analytics.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 29, 2019

The telemedicine programme is a joint effort of the Public Health Ministry and the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC). plan to increase access to healthcare with digital technologies, as stated in the eHealth Strategy by the Ministry of Public Health (2017-2026).

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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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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

million Siri logs in 2018. For instance, when the SR team announced improvements to the system in 2018, the training data contributing to an 18% increase in comprehension integrated Yelp’s top 1,000 entities, based on number of reviews, in eight large cosmopolitan regions.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a draft guidance that, if finalized, will update the agency’s 2018 guidance on its Breakthrough Devices Program (the “Program”). If this latest draft guidance is finalized after a period of public comment, the agency will incorporate the proposed language into the 2018 guidance.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 7, 2024

Telehealth on the Rise: The adoption of telehealth services has skyrocketed, jumping from 24% in 2018 to a staggering 96% in 2024. In 2024, 67% of CHCs reported screening all patients, compared to only 40% in 2018. Notably, 61% of CHCs credit telehealth with improved access to specialty care for patients.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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. We launched our first fully integrated telehealth solution in the 2018-2019 timeframe. First of all, we should think about the public health emergency.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 20, 2022

"Some facilities and caregivers are now feeling the strain of using programs that were rapidly implemented during a crisis, without time for full consideration of workflow and human factors," the researchers wrote about the spike in virtual care during the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S. Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Clearly, while supporting older peoples’ healthy living at home was part of Best Buy Health’s initial vision that went public in August 2018, the pandemic has accelerated the demand for services the Lively Flip supports.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 4, 2024

Haupt In addition to the conflict between free speech and public health in connection with social media , the role of social media as a public health hazard in itself has gained attention. He based this proposal on a range of alleged public health harms caused by social media, especially among young users.

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

In the context of HIPAA enforcement discretion, the Secretary can waive sanctions and penalties that result from non-compliance with the following standards of the Privacy Rule: 164.510 – Uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information requiring an opportunity for the individual to agree or object.

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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 2018, there were 599,274 cancer deaths; 283,721 were among females and 315,553 among males.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

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. 2016 – Employer Health Insurance Costs Reach $18,142.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2018

The line chart come from a new study into Multimorbidity Trends in United States Adults, 1988-2014 , published in the July-August 2018 issue of the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. Decades of research have shown that nutrition, economic stability, and a clean and safe physical environment make individual and public health.

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CMS.gov

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

CMS releases its Measures Under Consideration List for 2018 pre-rulemaking. I am happy to announce that CMS posted the Measures under Consideration (MUC) List for 2018 pre-rulemaking on the CMS website and has sent it to NQF in preparation for multi-stakeholder input. keya.joy-bush@…. Thu, 11/30/2017 - 15:28. Kate Goodrich, M.D.,

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Those costs are shown in the household expenditure table here, illustrating that by 2018, the median household expenditures in the U.S. The table (Appendix: The Cost-of-Thriving Data) organizes the growing costs by household line item including housing, health insurance, transportation and college. did not save for old age.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2024

The first draft of the TEFCA was unveiled all the way back in January 2018 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) – leading many to wonder whether QHINs would ever see the light of day.

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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. In the health sector, we say that corruption can mean the difference between life and death.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 19, 2022

Between January 1 and July 31, 2018, a system that monitored unauthorized accessing of PHI at a large academic medical center flagged unauthorized accessing of electronic medical records by 444 employees, all of whom were professional medical staff who were not part of the patient’s intervention team and did not have access permission.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

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. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2016.303299. 2016.303299. Epub 2016 Aug 23.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 18, 2019

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health. THE PROBLEM.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

Theranos and Homes denied the allegations and threatened to sue Carreyrou; however, in 2018, Homes stepped down from her position as CEO, and following an FBI investigation the company was shut down. Accurate and dependable diagnostic testing technology is imperative to our public health infrastructure.

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