Bill of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Jon Larsen and Sterling Johnson There is a well-established whole of government response to drug policing centered around the “war on drugs.” Policy changes must be considered to replace acknowledged failures and reimagine the whole of government response to drug policing.

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Bill of Health

MAY 18, 2022

Other areas where the government allows Americans to deduct expenses tend to be reactive, rather than proactive. This seems to indicate that the government has a specific vision of the steps that Americans should take to get healthy — and that simply isn’t a vision that will work for everyone.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

By focusing on person-centered, inclusive design as the first of its federal health information technology principles, ASTP says the plan seeks to "strengthen individual's ability to securely access and use their own health information to take greater control over their own health. Warner, D-Virginia.,

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19. To move forward, public health leaders should clarify strategy from the top-down.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

health care system, but that are especially present for behavioral health needs like substance use, and are exacerbated by other challenges related to stigma, lack of employment, and fragmented or nonexistent care coordination. This reality reflects structural, policy, and legal misalignments common to the entire U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At the same time, they are regularly treated as commodities , often in ways that are completely divorced from their public health value. How may we convince these actors — governments, private-sector companies, funders — to agree to a more equitable allocative framework? is the relevant criterion the mortality rate?

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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. public investment in the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines between 1985 to 2019.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The New South Wales Government has recently expanded statewide its virtual urgent care service for children. The statewide expansion of virtualKIDS, which is part of the current NSW government's commitment to delivering 25 urgent care services by mid-2025, is now expected to support at least 500 NSW children and their families each month.

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Health Law Advisor

APRIL 13, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) updated its Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”), drafting 13 FAQs aimed at easing the transition from COVID-era flexibilities to the end of the Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) on May 11, 2023.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

This note focuses on the practical risks the proposed agreement presents as a precedent. Such obligations are unnecessary when a government is keen to acquire vaccines that are both affordable and scarce, and when the vaccine manufacturer has the ability to enforce intellectual property rights, if any, in importing countries.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure public health by mandating vaccines. Presently, among the fifty U.S. In 2021, the Supreme Court articulated in Tandon v.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This allows women experiencing pain or bleeding in early pregnancy to no longer present and wait in an emergency department " during such a challenging time," SA Health said in a statement. million ($21 million) in funding over four years from the state government. million ($47 million) over the next five years.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That is why there is end-to-end latency which might not be as present in Wi-Fi." ” Patient health outcomes were the overarching factor in determining whether public-private partnerships can optimise 5G adoption in healthcare. As a long-time veteran in Taiwan’s public healthcare, Lee shared his view.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The UK government has launched a “far-reaching review” into the impact of potential bias in the design and use of medical devices. It certainly does not replace the need for an urgent public inquiry, to properly explore why the pandemic had such a devastating impact on some groups in Britain."

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

WHY IT MATTERS For healthcare organizations, the use of cookies, tracking technologies, digital advertising and analytics tools that other industries use to drive growth presents serious privacy risks and technical challenges. They can't use location services to help patients get to appointments, AHA said.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 8, 2024

THE LARGER TREND Healthcare does not leverage emergency medical response data enough, according to data analysts working in the space and presenting at HIMSS24. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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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

DECEMBER 1, 2021

3M HIS is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language understanding into its encoder solutions to analyse EHR source documents, extract the relevant clinical terminology language (SNOMED) and automatically map it into classification codes (ICD and OPCS) to present to the clinical coding teams for validation.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data. This is one area where CX can come in.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 2, 2022

The onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) led to a surge in the use of telehealth by health care providers. Variety of Risks Present in Telehealth Arrangements. The severity and type of risk present in a telehealth business will vary—by jurisdiction, by provider type, by service offering, and by payor mix.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 15, 2023

The South Australian government has set aside additional funding for its new virtual care services for children and adults to make them permanent. Meanwhile, the SA government has provided the State Health Control Centre funding of A$31.5 Enterprise Taxonomy: Patient Access Telehealth Population and Public Health Care

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In June, the government downgraded its public health alert, which meant the end of the temporary conduct of telemedicine after three years. While legislators are still working to get telemedicine institutionalised , the MOHW launched the pilot programme to continue providing citizens an alternative option to access care.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Hartlage will present alongside CGI Global's Renee Gregor at HIMSS22 this month about lessons learned from the rollout.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Population health and precision medicine defined. When President Barack Obama announced during the 2015 State of the Union Address that the government was launching the Precision Medicine Initiative, a debate began about whether and how precision medicine and population health management could coexist in the U.S. health system.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 13, 2022

Almost all of the healthcare implementations of Geographic Information System (GIS) being discussed at the 2022 Esri User Conference would not be possible if GIS data was not shared so readily by government organizations. Some government organizations even offer an API so that their GIS information can be used in near real-time.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Chris Oskuie, VP, State & Local Government &Education Sales at Software AG Government Solutions As a result of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), Medicaid programs were required to keep citizens continuously enrolled through the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE).

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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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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2024

– Interoperability issues: These directories often fail to support interoperable data exchange or public health reporting. Trilliant Health addresses these challenges with its national Provider Directory, a web-based application that includes: – 2.9

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Bill of Health

APRIL 10, 2023

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. The post Legislating Black History appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

There is a common and problematic misconception that colonization was an isolated historical event and that the present is somehow divorced from its precedent. To explore how colonization drives health inequities, we have to acknowledge the causal relationship between what is past and what is present and think critically about colonization.

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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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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

history, which is now killing more than 100,000 people a year, the country’s outdated and restrictive federal regulatory schemes that pertain to methadone and buprenorphine present a pernicious and persistent barrier to accessing OUD medications. However, during the worst drug poisoning crisis in U.S.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Even when the federal government famously required workers to be vaccinated (until the Supreme Court said nope ), and the federal government required incoming international travelers to be vaccinated, it only required domestic passengers to wear masks (until a federal judge in Florida also said nope ).

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Bill of Health

JUNE 1, 2022

Over the past two years, the Supreme Court has shown unprecedented hostility to efforts by both state and federal government to stop the spread of what every day turns out to be an even more deadly pandemic. These decisions are devastating, and likely signal a continued attack on government authority , but they are not a reason to give up.

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