Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

More than 591 million EU Digital COVID Certificates (EUDCC) have now been generated, according to a European Commission report published today. The certificate, which covers COVID-19 vaccination, test and recovery, aims to facilitate safe travel for citizens in Europe. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 30, 2022

In August 2021 , the U.S. 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. By Kaitlynn Milvert. On March 25, the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

What Has Everyone Excited about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11-year-olds? With the rollout this month of the COVID-19 vaccine for those 5-11 years of age, we can now directly protect children with asthma for whom COVID-19 infection is an even bigger hazard for our children during the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The infodemic has made it more difficult for incarcerated people to suss out how to use whatever limited power they do have to protect themselves from COVID-19 (e.g., Despite widespread calls to decarcerate at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, widespread decarceration has not occurred.).

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 6, 2022

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is currently embroiled in a dispute over the ownership of patent rights to Moderna’s flagship mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (mRNA-1273). Failing to do so would be a missed opportunity for the public sector to have a say in the distribution and pricing of this critical medical technology.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. And that’s where they are wrong. Some victories came easy. Yet, only 185 of these bills actually passed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

The following is a guest article by Eric Paternoster, CEO of Infosys Public Services. Public health agencies have embarked on an ambitious program.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 21, 2023

public investment in the development of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Eroding Judicial Deference to the FDA – Consequences for Public Health. Timing of Confirmatory Trials for Drugs Granted Accelerated Approval Based on Surrogate Measures From 2012 to 2021. JAMA Health Forum. Value Health.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. Sister Mary is CEO and President of CHA. ” she asserted. .” Amen and amen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 3, 2021

HIMSS this week has unveiled the list of the first recipients of its 2021 HIMSS Changemaker Awards. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. Abu Dhabi, UAE.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2021

The emergence of the COVID-19 vaccine “infodemic” has slowed the ability for nations around the world to emerge out of the public health crisis. The 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer spotlighted the infodemic and eroding trust in the U.S. in the voices of public health, the public sector, and media.

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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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Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

This excerpt from the new book titled “ We Want Them Infected ” is printed with permission from Jonathan Howard, MD and Redhawk Publications. By Jonathan Howard On June 29, 2021, Dr. Harriet Hall penned an essay on the website Science Based Medicine titled “A New COVID-19 Myth?” 2021, June 29). Zubin Damania.

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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. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. HIMSS22 Coverage.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, this is reflected in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies (2023). Can age and disability be considered in triage decisions in the face of public health emergencies?

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 11, 2023

The Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced that he does not plan to renew the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, which is due to expire on May 11, 2023.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 6, 2022

can take a bigger step to promote global public health now. has offered to share technology associated with National Institutes of Health inventions to a WHO pool of patents. We have an opportunity to implement a global public goods approach to IP with the WHO proposed Pandemic Treaty , which was launched in December 2021.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register in September 2021: On September 7, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 252 directing vaccination or testing requirements for workers in health care facilities and high-risk settings. On September 7, 2021, at 53 N.J.R.

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Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

We have watched the United States declare a public health emergency. Together we have seen the infection rates skyrocket as 60,000 cases of COVID-19 infections had been confirmed in February 2020—a number that pales in comparison to today’s figures.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

COVID Vaccine Education. In May 2021, CMS issued an interim final rule that required SNFs to educate staff and residents on the risks and benefits of COVID vaccination and to offer or assist in accessing COVID vaccination for staff and residents. COVID Staff Vaccine.

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Health Law RX

APRIL 27, 2023

On April 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) confirmed that four notifications of enforcement discretion regarding enforcement of the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rules (the HIPAA rules) during the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) will expire at the end of the PHE.

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Verisys

JUNE 13, 2023

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services : The US Department of Health and Human Services has issued a final rule update concerning guidelines for COVID-19 vaccination requirements for Long-Term Care Facilities (LTC) and Intermediate Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICFs-IID).

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HIPAA Journal

JUNE 26, 2023

In the context of HIPAA enforcement discretion, the Secretary can waive sanctions and penalties that result from non-compliance with the following standards of the Privacy Rule: 164.510 – Uses and disclosures of Protected Health Information requiring an opportunity for the individual to agree or object.

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SQA

MARCH 25, 2021

SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary #2, 2021. COVID-19 Pandemic Triggers Development of New Standard for Ventilators, 12 January 2021. When the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, so too did the demand for ventilators. The revised Aide Memoires enter into force on 01 January 2021.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2021

who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot have a welcoming side-effect: peace of mind and mental health, according to a survey conducted by Walgreens in April 2021. adults over 18 years of age between April 19 and 21st, 2021. ” This group of hesitant vaccine consumers were: 60% women.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a public health emergency, pharmaceutical manufacturers’ liability concerns can slow the deployment of urgently needed vaccines and other medical countermeasures (MCMs). Products used during public health emergencies raise unique issues either because of their novelty, scale and type of proposed use, or regulatory pathway.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises. In both contexts, these reporting failures make it difficult to mount a competent public health response to prevent unnecessary mortality. By Jennifer D. Meyer’s musings were prescient.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In 2021, the Supreme Court articulated in Tandon v. 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. By Donna Gitter. Throughout that period, federal courts have respected those decisions.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I wish I was embellishing, but rather than forget, my call to action upon my release in September 2021 was to use my freedom to provide a voice for my brothers on the inside. COVID-19 is just one pandemic of more to come. Chan School of Public Health. And all the while, symptoms were often ignored by staff.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

Monitoring the safe and effective use of medicines has now been an essential part of public health policy for several decades. The pharmacovigilance teams have played a vital role in the safe, effective, and rapid rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. New advances in technology (e.g., References.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

people who are part of Native and Pacific Islander, American Indian and Alaska Native, Hispanic and Latinx, and Black (non-Hispanic) communities were more likely to have had a COVID-19 diagnosis in the first fourteen months of the pandemic than people were White or Asian citizens. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. It was the COVID-19 pandemic that accelerated some early-adopting health consumers viewing their home as their ultimate site for self-care and health care.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fielding calls from heads of state, they decided what vaccine deliveries to prioritize , shaping which countries could protect lives and livelihoods. The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — Private decisions did not match public health need.

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Health Care Law Brief

DECEMBER 22, 2021

On November 2, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) issued its Calendar Year (CY) 2022 Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”) Final Rule. CMS also extended the permissible breadth of telehealth services (the “Category 3” services) that it had added to the PFS in CY 2020 in response to COVID-19 through the end of 2023.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Robert Hooke’s detailed drawings of cells relied on his compound microscope, and the development of the COVID-19 vaccine hinged on genetic research powered by computers. Advancements in technology have always driven breakthroughs in medicine. He currently leads a portfolio of work at the Department of Veteran’s Affairs.

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