Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

By Brooke Ellison. There is a profound need to deconstruct and actively reconstruct the interpretation of disability as it is currently understood. The current framing of disability as inability — whether an inability to be employed or otherwise — has utterly failed not only people with disabilities, but also the communities in which they live. This perception of disability is a relic of attitudinal and policy structures put into place by people who do not live with disability themselves: people

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 24, 2022

The state already has a law making it a felony to commit battery against nurses, emergency care providers or those working in an emergency department, but this expands that protection to threats.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2022

The importance of data-sharing and interoperability were two dominant themes at HIMSS22, with leadership repeatedly emphasizing how the COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the consequences of siloed information. Dr. Donald Rucker, former National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, says the ability to represent data uniformly is arguably a bigger win than the ability to transmit it – and he says FHIR will be a key way of doing so.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2022

A University of Iowa study published this month in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found that an at-home telemonitoring program was an effective and sustainable way to manage COVID-19 for patients. The goals of the program, as outlined in the study, were to avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, identify declining patients, escalate care when needed and provide support to patients and families.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 23, 2022

By Scott J. Schweikart. The silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it has opened the door to new opportunities to improve our society. For example, office changes brought about by the pandemic — e.g., remote working or telecommuting — made life easier for many workers with disabilities. However, as more of the workforce begins returning to the office, there are notable examples of employers pushing back on the increased accommodations realized during the pandemic, indicating that some ga

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 22, 2022

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2022

Access to the Internet has been a key determinant of health — or more aptly, death — during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans lacked Internet access were more likely to die due to complications from the coronavirus, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open this month. The study’s key finding was that for every additional 1% of people living in a county who have access to the Internet, between 2.4 and 6.0 COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 were preventable.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 25, 2022

By? Ameet Sarpatwari , Beatrice Brown , Aviva Wang, and? Aaron S. Kesselheim. Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Below are the citations for papers identified from the month of February.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 24, 2022

But the generous subsidies that contributed to the increase in enrollment are temporary and set to expire at the end of the year absent congressional action.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 25, 2022

Hong Kong startup iMeddy provides free video consultation for COVID-19 patients. iMeddy, a startup nurtured by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is providing free video medical consultations via its online healthcare platform for COVID-19 patients. Supported by Y.Elites Association and the Hong Kong Youth Development Alliance, the service runs in two phases: the first round, which has been completed, delivered teleconsultations to low-income families, and the upcoming second round will cover

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 23, 2022

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Bill of Health

MARCH 24, 2022

By Sapna Kumar and Ana Santos Rutschman. Research funding contracts can help to safeguard against profound inequities in global allocation and distribution of lifesaving diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. During large transnational public health crises, global demand soars for diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. Although some of these products can be developed within compressed timelines, global production capacity remains limited.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 25, 2022

Tripathi shared his thoughts on the scope and content of information-blocking complaints, when the industry can expect penalties for providers found information blocking and how the government plans to build on TEFCA moving forward.

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2022

Healthcare organizations each faced an average of 109 cyberattacks per week last year, by far the most of any industry. While hospitals and health systems may have well-honed cybersecurity protocols to prevent or mitigate such attacks, the growth of care-at-home technologies – including remote patient monitoring and hospital at home – has created another layer of concern.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 21, 2022

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth. However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency. The American Telehealth Association has been pushing Congress […].

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 24, 2022

New Jersey's largest hospital system lost its challenge to merge with Englewood Hospital, a transaction the FTC sought to halt because of competition concerns.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 21, 2022

During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology has helped bring care to underserved populations through the use of virtual care and telehealth. However, achieving true health equity will take a village: community leaders, providers, payers and, most importantly, patients themselves working together. Host Ankoor Shah, MD, MBA, MPH from Accenture talks to community members Nicole Gyimah and Kelly Binder from Unite Us about the challenges patients can face when trying to access healthcare and how health

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 23, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. AGS Health, a leader in revenue cycle management solutions for major healthcare providers across the U.S., has achieved Cybersecurity Transparent status through a voluntary risk assessment process and program from Censinet and KLAS Research. KLAS and Censinet launched […].

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Center for Health Insurance Reform

MARCH 23, 2022

The Affordable Care Act was signed into law on March 23, 2010. On the law's 12th birthday, Karen Davenport pays tribute to its hard-won coverage gains and describes the gaps that remain. Continue reading → The post Happy 12th Birthday, Affordable Care Act—You’ve Grown So Much! appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 21, 2022

When a hospital closes in a rural community, the effects often ripple through the local economy, reducing the size of the population, labor force and possibly county income, new research suggests.

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Mobi Health News

MARCH 24, 2022

The tech giant also provided an update on its artificial intelligence research and announced the expansion of YouTube's tools to mitigate the spread of health misinformation.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MARCH 23, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. DeliverHealth, a global provider of software and technology-enabled services for hospitals, health systems and group practices, today announced it has acquired San Francisco-based PresidioHealth, a healthcare technology and clinical intelligence company.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 24, 2022

Chelan Douglas Health District in East Wenatchee, WA, has announced it was the victim of a cyberattack in July 2021 in which the personal and protected health information of patients was exfiltrated from its systems. The breach notice uploaded to Chelan Douglas Health District website does not disclose when the breach was detected but says a third-party cybersecurity company was engaged to investigate the cyberattack and confirmed that its network was accessed by unauthorized individuals between

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Healthcare Dive

MARCH 21, 2022

Current shortages and widespread issues recruiting and retaining staff are a central concern for hospitals, and could lend nurses more leverage in negotiations.

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