Fierce Healthcare

JANUARY 18, 2022

CMS sets COVID-19 vaccination deadlines for healthcare workers in 24 more states. Tue, 01/18/2022 - 11:32.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 30, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) put in place requirements for service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Litigation has since ensued over the military branches’ restrictive approach to religious exemptions to vaccination. The Navy, so far, has granted only one religious exemption to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The COVID-19 vaccination statuses of approximately 500,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees have been impermissibly disclosed. The spreadsheet also included details of claimed religious and medical exceptions to COVID-19 vaccination.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Initial findings are expected by the end of January 2022. COVID-19 exposed health disparities across the country, as death rates have been higher among people from ethnic minorities. It will also examine MRI scanners, which are not recommended for use for pregnant or breastfeeding women. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare Law Today

JANUARY 20, 2022

As previously reported , on November 4, 2021 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) issued an Interim Final Rule (the CMS Rule) requiring most Medicare and Medicaid certified providers and suppliers to vaccinate staff members within 60 days. Ensure eligible staff are fully vaccinated by February 28, 2022.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Dorit Reiss proposes that a no-fault compensation system for those who experience injuries from COVID-19 vaccines will encourage trust in the system, thereby encouraging people to get vaccinated, which can help to mitigate the pandemic’s burden.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

After the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers was withdrawn last month , many pronounced private employers to be “on their own” to make decisions about vaccine requirements for their employees. A Fifth Circuit Outlier.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 17, 2023

Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. As we all enter 2022, we can all use a dose of joy and self-compassion.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A mother and her two daughters have been charged for providing fraudulent COVID-19 vaccination cards to maintain and obtain employment at a New York nursing home. Vaccination is mandatory for nursing home employment in New York. They are scheduled to appear in court on March 14, 2022. Update your policy as needed.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

6 This didn’t stop her from making a nearly identical podcast in May 2022 titled “Living with COVID,” 7 which declared “we now have all the necessary tools to end the COVID ‘emergency phase’. 8 She said that, due to high rates of immunity, “since March of 2022 we’ve seen very little severe disease in the hospital.”

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Symplr

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

COVID-19 time line, February 2021: The distribution of COVID-19 vaccines was in its early stages. However, that number accounts for only 65% of the total U.S. population.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. government substantially de-risking the vaccine development process.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

million ($42 million) to extend the provision of subsidised mental health support to December 2022; A$41.2 million ($42 million) to extend the provision of subsidised mental health support to December 2022; A$41.2 The latest telehealth budget is part of a A$308.6 It includes the following: A$58.8 It includes the following: A$58.8

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 27, 2022

(NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) announced the initiation of a clinical trial study to evaluate the safety, tolerability and immunogenicity of an Omicron-based vaccine candidate in healthy adults 18 through 55 years of age. – Cohort #3 (n=205): Vaccine-naïve participants will receive three doses of the Omicron-based vaccine.

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Bill of Health

JULY 12, 2024

Contreras On July 2, 2024, the High Court of the United Kingdom issued a decision in Moderna’s mRNA vaccine patent litigation against Pfizer and BioNTech. As I previously discussed in October of 2020, Moderna pledged not to enforce its patents against makers of COVID-19 vaccines during the pandemic.

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Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

claims for COVID-19 vaccines. Tue, 02/01/2022 - 13:47. Casey: UnitedHealth has reprocessed more than 1.6M

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. As we head into 2022, it is likely we will see an increase in both the sheer number of attacks on hospitals as well as severity. Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Addressing Declines in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates and COVID-19 Treatment. A pre-Thanksgiving analysis of this data revealed that just 45% of SNF residents and 23% of SNF staff were up-to-date with COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. [iv] ii] QSO-21-19-NH (cms.gov). iii] 42 CFR 483.10(c)(6).

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Cedars-Sinai implemented an algorithm to identify events potentially related to COVID-19 vaccines and notify the FDA. The FDA received the notifications and was able to quickly respond with bi-directional electronic queries for medical records to validate and better understand the encounters.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, health care spending in the U.S. This year, medical cost trend will rise by 7.0%, expected to decline a bit in 2022 according to the annual study from PwC Health Research Institute , Medical Cost Trend: Behind the Numbers 2022. increased by a relatively low 6.0% The post Post-Pandemic, U.S.

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Health Law Attorney

MARCH 16, 2022

In an effort to combat the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), the Dept. On March 15, 2022, the HRSA posted a notice on the Uninsured Program website that the Uninsured Program would stop accepting claims for testing, treatment, and vaccination due to lack of sufficient funds. At 11:59 p.m. Continue Reading ?.

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Fierce Healthcare

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Study: Better COVID-19 vaccine uptake might have saved thousands of lives. Tue, 11/22/2022 - 13:27.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Surescripts is Actually an Interoperability Company According to Surescript’s 2022 National Progress Report , 1.23 Confirmation of Vaccination The pandemic accelerated the use of Surescripts’ platform as an information exchange. “We million prescribers used their platform to fill 2.34 billion e-prescriptions.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 17-20, January 2022.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note: This article has been revised to include information on the Group 2 states as of January 18, 2022. The timeframes are based on the issuance date of each of the QSO Memos, which was December 28, 2021 for the Group 1 QSO Memo and January 14, 2022 for the Group 2 QSO Memo.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

Judge Zione Ntaba’s contribution highlights how courts in Malawi decided cases relating to the Government’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic , including, in particular, the provision of social security measures in parallel with lockdown measures, and the policy proposals relating to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Matternet, which has been flying Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) commercially over cities since 2017, will operate its technology under SkyGo’s license for BVLOS drone delivery, and transport urgent, high-value goods such as COVID-19 vaccines, blood, and lab samples across the Abu Dhabi’s health system.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

We also have to admit we dismally failed in terms of equitable rollout, equitable distribution, and that is something we really need to do better in 2022,” Cueni said. By May 12, 2022, over 40 percent of national COVID-19 deaths were caused by WHO-designated variants. reached the one million death mark.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Matternet, which has been flying Beyond Visual Line Of Sight (BVLOS) commercially over cities since 2017, will operate its technology under SkyGo’s license for BVLOS drone delivery, and transport urgent, high-value goods such as COVID-19 vaccines, blood, and lab samples across the Abu Dhabi’s health system.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

health citizens’ memories will last into 2022 with respect to cross-party desire for the U.S. Transparency and education are essential to building trust in vaccines, Edelman concludes in this study, noting that 64% of U.S. to approve Medicare’s negotiation of drug prices with pharmaceutical companies].

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 20, 2022

As Public Health Emergency (PHE) has extended beyond 16 th April 2022 by 90 days, various waivers are continued, making no change in billing guidelines in pandemic. In fact, concerned authority extended the current COVID-19 pandemic telehealth waivers for five months beyond the end of the public health emergency.

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Health Law RX

AUGUST 31, 2021

That is the question facing exhausted but dedicated corporate Human Resources leaders as they approach annual open enrollment season, in which employees are asked to lock in their 2022 benefit plan year’s elections. Collective Bargaining Nuances.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 26, 2022

Officials said use was largely driven by people accessing COVID-19 vaccination records and test results – in fact, less that 2% of patients who went to the emergency department had doctors or nurses look at their records. Care coordination network CarePort released its 2021 growth numbers.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The NYC Marathon Allocative Scheme, in Brief The number of registered runners for the New York City Marathon has increased enormously over time, from 127 in the inaugural edition in 1970 to 50,000 in recent years (except for a COVID-19 hiatus).

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Health Law Pulse

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Although receiving the COVID-19 vaccine remains one of the best ways to combat the severity of one’s symptoms, Dr. Van Kerkhove warned that the vaccine could become less effective as the virus continues to evolve.

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AJPH

DECEMBER 22, 2021

American Journal of Public Health, Volume 112, Issue 1 , Page 29-33, January 2022.

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