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COVID-19 Health Systems Impact: What Will Stop The Cash Hemorrhage?

HIT Consultant

Eugene Chan, MD, co-founder and chairman of Abpro The material cost of COVID-19 has been at the center of public discourse since the early days of the pandemic. In 2020, growth in federal government spending on healthcare increased 36 percent , compared to the 5.9 percent bump in 2019. Employment across healthcare is down 1.3

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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

By Barbara Pfeffer Billauer On May 25, 2023 , merely six weeks before the Wuhan Biosafety lab lost its NIH funding amid the controversy of possible lab leaks and connection with COVID-19, the United States proudly opened the doors of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF), the 14th biosafety level 4 lab in the U.S.,

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Physicians Beware! Groups Providing DME, Prosthetic Devices, and Other Medical Supplies to Their Medicare Patients Risk Violating the Strict Liability Stark Law Since the Expiration of COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

Health Law Advisor

During the COVID-19 PHE, CMS issued temporary waivers, including a waiver of the “location requirement” of the In-Office Ancillary Services (“IOAS”) exception. 3] As indicated above, the temporary waiver that allowed mailing or home delivery of DME during the COVID-19 PHE expired May 11, 2023 and is no longer available.

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Know Your Adversary: HC3 Shares Details of Chinese APT Groups Targeting the Healthcare Sector

HIPAA Journal

While at least one Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is known to conduct cyberattacks for financial gain, most groups conduct attacks for espionage purposes and to obtain intellectual property (IP) of interest to the government of the People’s Republic of China, such as IP related to medical technology and medicine.

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Can Children Consent to the COVID Vaccine? The Case of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice

Bill of Health

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. Youth in the foster care system and those who are justice-involved face additional challenges during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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July 2022 Semi-Annual Health IT Market Review

HIT Consultant

Act III of COVID: Navigating the Crosscurrents of Post-Inflation. Act I: Pre-COVID (Pre-2020) Act II: Post-COVID (2020 – 2021) Act III: Post-Inflation (2022 – ?). The amount of investment going into Health IT is nearly half the Post-COVID peak, but still 27% higher than Pre-COVID levels.

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HHS Shares Information on Advanced Persistent Threat Groups Linked with the Russian Intelligence Services

HIPAA Journal

Turla, aka Venomous Bear/Iron Hunter/KRYPTON/Waterbug, operates under the direction of the FSB and mostly targets industries such as academic, energy, government, military, telecommunications, research, pharmaceutical companies, and foreign embassies, and has been active since at least 2004. Mitigations.