Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Additionally, the solution gives them the ability to book cleaning services. The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. The health IT provider has been delivering medical transcription solutions to the region for over six years.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Additionally, the hospital has set up an online internal booking system to allow its staff to book training sessions at their most convenient time. The New Zealand Ministry of Health has identified a coding issue which resulted in an undercount of recorded COVID-19 hospitalisations. NSW launches online menopause toolkit.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. She is the author of over 70 articles and book chapters about health law and civil rights issues.

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Jane Sarashon

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With my ongoing focus on social determinants and drivers of health for health equity and access, the first essay that caught my attention is on Government Obligations and the Negative Right to a Healthy Urban Environment. I’ll focus this post on one of the pieces that resonate with what I’m working on these days.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The Indonesian government will be extending its free telemedicine service for COVID-19 patients outside its capital, Jakarta. Accessible through a government website, the service is intended for asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 patients under self-isolation. WHAT IT'S ABOUT. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” government purchased millions of doses of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, along with large quantities of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer. By Jorge L. Updating” the Pledge.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

One of my favorite Dr. Seuss characters is the narrator featured in the book, I Had Trouble In Getting to Solla-Sollew. I frequently use this book when conducting futures and scenario planning sessions with clients in health/care. But the Seussblog notes that the book’s message, “is a great one.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. What a difference seven years makes, with the latter years book-ended by the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica event and the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Neşe’s book project on the role of narrative and literary devices in psychedelic experience is under contract with Columbia University Press. She is the author of numerous books, including Women in the Bible and Death and the Afterlife in the New Testament. He is also the author of ten books, including God vs. Gay?

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

healthcare was relatively low (with Northwell Health actually a more mature user of virtual care). Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. We must avoid short-run thinking, as Dowling spells out in his book, Leading Through a Pandemic. We must address the poor state of the public health infrastructure.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

“Two intersecting and interdependent systems comprise democracy in the United States,” Eileen Salinsky, Program Advisor with Grantmakers in Health, wrote in a compelling essay in April 2022. Most Americans don’t feel the government cares about them, nor do most feel protected by U.S. Today is Election Day in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Nearly 8 million workers losing jobs also losing their employer-sponsored health insurance, discussed in this research from The Commonwealth Fund. The threat of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act during the public health crisis. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The patient in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 4, 2022

New research based on a survey of 2,000 athenaOne network patients conducted in June and July of this year, as well as data on booked and completed appointments through the athenahealth electronic health record, suggests telehealth is now integrated across the care continuum. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

are growing their health IT muscles and literacy, accelerated in the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, health consumers in America want more access to their personal health data, a study from the Pew Research Center has found in Americans Want Federal Government to Make Sharing Electronic Health Data Easier.

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Health Populi

JUNE 28, 2023

This turbocharged government and academic teams to deploy AI and machine learning into healthcare, WEF asserts, to both aid in addressing workflows in the public health crisis and to help predict future epidemic shocks. The WEF report reinforces my call for health citizenship, both within the U.S. Calling out the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 23, 2023

News and Studies The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule from CMS would continue many of the public health emergency telehealth flexibilities, such as an expanded definition of telehealth practitioners, continued payments to rural health centers and FQHCs, and the expansion of originating sites.

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Jane Sarashon

JUNE 10, 2024

I’ll be leading 2 panels covering the huge and growing challenge of trust in health care, and then the future of the health consumer looking to 2030, as well as doing a book signing for my look at HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , addressing growing consumerization in health care.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

By aggregating and standardizing data from a wide array of sources – claims, electronic health records , demographics, and more – healthcare data ecosystems deliver the ability to accelerate innovation in medical research, drug development, and public health. The broader context of healthcare data ecosystems.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Digital health is a determinant of health, the OECD writes in this chapter, noting the importance of health citizens’ digital connections to access health care, education, and to source the essential basic needs of everyday living.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Organizations working on the HEAL project include the American Medical Association, AT&T, Best Buy Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Cambria Health, Google, Grapevine Health, HP, Intel, Microsoft, MLEM, Omron Healthcare, ResMed, Rimidi, University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Virginia Center for Telehealth and Validic.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

So only in America in the coronavirus pandemic have millions of people lost their health security just when folks would be most needful of access to health care services: during a public health crisis. Race matters for health insurance in America. Onward, health citizens.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

Nearly one-half of consumers said the pandemic compelled them to support provider sharing of data, 4 in 10 people embraced downloading data to apps, and one-third supported government standards to improve patient matching. To build healthcare back better in the U.S.,

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 15, 2022

” Four years later in 2013, promoting his (then) new book Conscious Capitalism, Mackey did an interview with NPR, morphing the word “socialism” to “fascism” when speaking about the Affordable Care Act. .” And that’s what’s happening with these reforms.”

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Forging a new social contract is a shared responsibility,” she asserts, with a collaboration between governments, employers, industry, nongovernmental organizations, nonprofits, academia and individuals. That is, government spending.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 6, 2021

Insufficient spending upstream on social care and determinants of health risks (SDoH), shown in the chart, where the U.S. We can’t ask health care stakeholders, whether providers or IT developers, to do all the heavy lifting of building American healthcare back better, more cost-effectively, and equitably.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The trio then tested different combinations of factors adding into different groups remedial tutoring, access to credit (especially microcredit programs), technology, and health care services, along with new models for teacher accountability and school governance. In the U.S.,

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 17, 2022

These issues are not mutually exclusive: if we take a value-based, ecosystem view on them, we can leverage technology to help scale social and public policy goals to ensure that health is baked across all policies. I pointed this out in my book, HealthConsuming: from health consumer to health citizen , noting that the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 26, 2020

Blumenthal wonders whether the COVID-19 pandemic is “the moment” that will usher in a call-to-action for the United States to adopt universal health care as a civil right. As a public health person, I’m especially drawn to bolstering my “Quaranteam.”

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Americans’ mentions of “government” as a top U.S. Americans pointed to government as the top problem in the U.S., “Average mentions of government have been on the rise since 2017,” Gallup noted in a growing polarized political climate in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

Our success in addressing the drivers of health likely depends on the ability to partner more effectively within this ecosystem.” This graphic comes out of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Published last year before the pandemic emerged.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 20, 2020

The results will then be stored in their central database as well as on the patients digital health record, which will be accessible to healthcare professionals where appropriate regardless of the local authority. ” IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST PARTNERS WITH PATCHWORK HEALTH.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The pandemic prison has utilized several of the worst features of incarceration as a foundational part of how the institution governs “public health” for its captives. Abolitionists and other critics of mass incarceration joined incarcerated people in proclaiming that prison ran counter to public health.

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Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

Her experience in the early days of blockchain-building across all industries is that 20% is the hard initial work, but 80% of the project is convening the network to agree governance and incentive structures. The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Privatization of Cancer Privatization is the transfer of public power to private hands. Traditionally, it occurred through a clear delegation, such as governments delegating the management of utilities to private companies. I believe deregulation is one form of the “privatization of cancer.” In 2017, 72% of U.S.

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