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Health Care Planning for 2022 – Start with a Pandemic, Then Pivot to Health and Happiness

Health Populi

He decides, as the text quotes him, “to start to be twice as careful and be twice as smart… aiming my eyeballs in different directions.” along with health disparities and inequities. Telehealth will help many people meet up with health care access — but not necessarily universally or equitably.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

COVID-19 and the U.S. health system The COVID-19 pandemic had devastating effects on the United States, and brought these long standing health inequities and policy failures – from resource allocation to public health coordination – into the view of the general American public.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Carceral Health Care Is Designed to Fail

Bill of Health

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic within prisons. Like these earlier carceral pandemics, the over 620,000 COVID-19 infections and 3,100 related deaths among incarcerated individuals to date simply expose how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody. By Andrea C.

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Health Provider News – March 25, 2022

Hall Render

Hospitalist talks tech innovation for staffing shortages and patient access. OSHA accepting new comments on healthcare worker COVID-19 protection rule. OSHA will hold hearing on permanent COVID-19 standard for healthcare workers. Moderna wants the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6.

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Health Provider News

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The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M