Healthcare It News

JULY 11, 2024

The second version of ONC's Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Patient Engagement, Information Sharing and Public Health Interoperability rule, or HTI-2, is designed to support the data exchange needs of patients, providers, payers and public health agencies.

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Hall Render

JULY 18, 2022

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has given itself an extra year to review and assess skilled nursing facility proposed regulations issued in 2019. The 2019 Proposed Rule also proposes to delay the implementation to some of these Phase 3 provisions until one year following the effective date of the 2019 Proposed Rule.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The three winners of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics — Banerjee and Duflo (both of MIT) and Kremer (working at Harvard) — were recognized for their work on alleviating global poverty.” The post What the 2019 Nobel Prize Winners in Economics Teach Us About Health appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

Together, these articles underscore the injustice of the present moment and emphasize the need to reform intellectual property protections for government-funded inventions of public health significance. Recent Research on Public Funding of mRNA Technology The first of the two new articles is an in-depth empirical study of U.S.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The French IT company was recently awarded a contract worth A$242 M ($159 million) to continue supporting the digitalisation of the WA public health system for the next five years. It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises. In both contexts, these reporting failures make it difficult to mount a competent public health response to prevent unnecessary mortality. The previous record was set in 2020 and, before that, in 2019.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

That’s what came to my mind when reading the latest global health report from the OECD, Health at a Glance 2019 , which compares the United States to other nations’ health care outcomes, risk factors, access metrics, and spending. An October 2019 CBS News Poll on how Americans feel about U.S.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 26, 2022

A similar bill was introduced in the Senate in October 2019, the Equity and Pretrial Medicaid Coverage Act (S.2628). The MIEP overburdens county and local jails financially and jeopardizes public health. 2628 would support states and counties in delivering quality health care. Legislation like H.R. 3514 and S.2628

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 19, 2022

When several individuals from a common population, like a cruise ship or restaurant , become ill at the same time, it is more likely that a claim will be filed, as the “ cluster of cases may represent a failure to implement basic food safety and public health guidelines ” like requiring employees to wash hands after using the bathroom.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2021

Using data from Blue Health Intelligence data repository – an independent data and analytics company that is a licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association – researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health compared claims data from March through June 2019 with March through June 2020.

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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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Redox

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Is 2019 the year we see telemedicine take the leap? Remote patient monitoring (RPM) : the use of connected electronic tools to record personal health and medical data in one location for review by a provider in another location, usually at a different time. Original Source.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 16, 2022

By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research. Hilary Wething, PhD, is an assistant professor of public policy and a Jackman-McCourtney Early Career Professor at Penn State University. Your research looks specifically at laws from 2011-2019 with an analysis of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted these laws.

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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. Cancer Therapy Approval Timings, Review Speed, and Publication of Pivotal Registration Trials in the US and Europe, 2010-2019. JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jun 6. Epub ahead of print.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 19, 2023

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 16, 2021

That study, Who Is (and Isn't) Receiving Telemedicine Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic , adds to an already substantial body of evidence that the public health emergency is exacerbating disparities in access and use of technology-enabled healthcare. Enterprise Taxonomy: Population and Public Health Global Health Equity Care.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2022

Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the covid public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage. State Medicaid agencies for months have been preparing for the end of the public health emergency.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 13, 2023

The ransomware-as-a-service operation has used multiple tactics to take control of its victims' data and operations since its appearance in 2019. In January, The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said Clop shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 26, 2023

The CalRx Initiative, which was originally announced in January 2019 and later signed into law as the California Affordable Drug Manufacturing Act of 2020 , empowers the State of California to develop, produce, and distribute generic drugs and sell them at low cost. State interventions can increase competition and reduce prices.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

– Following a representative survey panel of Americans from March 2019 through March 2021, researchers found that the willingness to use video telehealth increased overall from 51% in February 2019 to 62% in March 2021. The study is published in the November edition of the journal Health Affairs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in 2019. Using de-identified patient data from Amwell, Teladoc Health, MDLive and Doctor On Demand, the CDC found that about 1.6 " WHY IT MATTERS.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 98-106, January 2022.

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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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Health Populi

AUGUST 25, 2020

This drove health consumers to virtual care platforms in the first months of the public health crisis — including lots of older people who had never used telemedicine or even a mobile health app. AARP sponsored the poll. This engaging video features commentary with researchers from U-M.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few years ago, a Bill of Health post titled Jelly Beans, Booze, and B-Vitamins proposed fortifying cheap wines, hard liquors, and malt liquors with thiamine (vitamin B1). The post suggested this as a public health measure to prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome (WKS) in the homeless alcoholic population. Vizzy Hard Seltzer.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 88-97, January 2022.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. The state government has also made a A$150 million ($100 million) investment over four years to upgrade its digital health infrastructure.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 10, 2023

This is a significant increase from 2019, when only one state had such a law. There were 16 states as of November 1, 2022, that preempted local government action on race and racism in school curricula, according to data from the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS The DEA says it is expanding patient access to critical therapies beyond the scheduled end of the COVID-19 public health emergency – except for the remote prescription of controlled substances. But, it didn't happen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 17, 2019

Our homes have the potential to be our health-hubs, supporting self-care and remote health care to our clinicians and health coaches, with our neighbors and communities bolstering overall public health. “Ultimately, a healthy business needs to be part of a healthy community.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The healthcare and public health (HPH) sector has been warned about cyberattacks involving MedusaLocker ransomware – one of the lesser-known ransomware variants used in cyberattacks on the sector. The ransomware variant was first detected in September 2019 and the group is thought to primarily target the HPH sector.

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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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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 23, 2024

The ScreenConnect remote access tool has been abused by a threat actor to gain access to the networks of organizations in the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector. The ScreenConnect vendor said the organizations affected had gone against recommended best practices.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 18, 2022

BRIMI will work to develop novel AI approaches both to establish health information inequities empirically and create triage guidelines for public health officials and practitioners to reduce them.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Roughly the same proportion of companies offered health benefits to at least some workers between 2019 and 2020, about 56% of firms. 31% of workers enrolled in a high-deductible health plan with a savings option, 13% in an HMO, and 8% in a point-of-service plan (POS, a hybrid of an HMO and PPO). and inflation, 2.1%.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 135-143, January 2022.

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