Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s déjà vu all over again for Americans’ well-being: we haven’t felt this low since the advent of the Great Recession that hit our well-well-being hard in December 2008. As COVID-19 diagnoses reached 200,000 in the U.S. in April 2020, Gallup gauged that barely 1 in 2 people felt they were thriving.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 23, 2022

The compromised system contained medical information on all individuals who had been tested for COVID-19 between June 2020 and January 2022, including staff members, visitors, and other individuals, although not inmates. Some of the exposed data included Social Security Numbers, driver’s license numbers, and trust account information.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2022

While the COVID-19 pandemic has taken an enormous toll on the nation, it has also opened an unprecedented opportunity to transform our workplaces and offer greater flexibility for employees with and without disabilities. The shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic might help change these trends. By Arlene S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 25, 2022

Biomarker qualification at the European Medicines Agency: a review of biomarker qualification procedures from 2008 to 2020. 2022 Feb 19. Emergency Use Authorizations of COVID-19-Related Medical Products. Bakker E, Hendrikse NM, Ehmann F, van der Meer DS, Llinares Garcia J, Vetter T, Starokozhko V, Mol PGM. 2022 Feb 9.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S. Health citizens in the U.S.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2020

This is markedly different than the Great Recession of 2008, the last major financial crisis: that financial decline was coined a “ManCession,” taking a more significant toll out of more typically men’s jobs like construction and manufacturing where fewer women worked. .”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2023

” In the COVID-19 pandemic, it was women who were hit financially harder than men in the U.S. (a a different fiscal impact than that felt by men in the 2008-9 Great Recession). Young adults, those in lower-income households and women were especially likely to say they or a family member had put off medical care.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The GAMMAs have actively been involved in the telemedicine sector as far back as 2008 and have accelerated the pace of investment in the sector. The current excess offer of telemedicine services (following the correction of the COVID-19 bubble of demand) contributes further to a natural culling of small, unprofitable players.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

say the future of America is a significant source of stress, as discussed in Stress in the Time of COVID-19, Volume Two , a report covering a poll of U.S. In that wave of research, APA discovered that, “The COVID-19 pandemic has altered every aspect of American life, from health and work to education and exercise.”

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) led to a rapid expansion in the utilization of telehealth. On October 13, 2022 , Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Secretary Xavier Becerra renewed the COVID-19 PHE and the PHE is now set to expire on January 11, 2023. Notable Updates. Anticipated Termination of the PHE.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 8, 2024

While cases impacting the SDOH can be landmark Supreme Court cases, such as the ruling on the CDC’s eviction moratorium during the COVID-19 pandemic, judges also make decisions on a daily basis that can affect the SDOH and thereby health. Take, for example, a child welfare case out of New York, In re Brittany T , 852 N.Y.S.2d

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating financial stress in America, hitting women especially hard, based on PwC’s 9th annual Employee Financial Wellness Survey COVID-19 Update. That is, until COVID-19 hit the service economy hard in the first quarter of 2020. workers, the first chart illustrates.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2023

The chart on the median price of newly marketed drugs between 2008 and 2002 shows the cost in 2022 reaching $222,000. PwC calls out this transformation which the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated, when the report notes ambulatory care settings recovered the fastest compared with other delivery sites in the healthcare system.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In a press release on the program, CTA President and CEO Gary Shapiro noted that, “The response to COVID-19 in the U.S. The group includes leading experts who are on the frontlines of dealing with COVID-19, and we hope to create a blueprint that will guide the effective use of technology to combat these scenarios in the future.”.

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C&M Health Law

OCTOBER 18, 2023

HHS is proposing to amend the regulation to clarify the obligations imposed on programs and activities that receive FFA, and to improve consistency with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the “ADA”), the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (the “ADAAA”), amendments to the Rehabilitation Act, and significant case law.

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Healthcare Compliance Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

The applicant was qualified for the position and could perform the essential duties of the job, which included greeting visitors, communicating COVID-19 masking standards and policies, giving directions, and keeping the area tidy and welcoming.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Some have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic could be a moment of what critical race theorist Derrick Bell called “ interest convergence ,” where majority interests align with those of a minority group to create a critical moment for social change. Why Haven’t Interests Converged During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

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Healthcare Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2023

On February 24, 2023, the Drug Enforcement Agency (“DEA”) announced a new proposed rule, which provides some much-anticipated guidance related to the implications of telemedicine prescribing under Ryan Haight Act of 2008 (“RHA”) after the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) terminates on May 11, 2023.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

According to DOJ’s statistics, the government paid out $238 million to relators in FY 2021, the lowest number since FY 2008. Total awards to relators also fell in FY 2021 to the lowest number in over a decade. INCREASE IN RECOVERIES FROM DECLINED QUI TAM CASES. KEY TAKEAWAYS.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. As a result, it publicly promised that “ while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2020

consumers were re-shapen by the 2008 Recession in two key ways: people took on more self-service DIY daily life-flows, seeking self-sufficiency and less dependence on institutions; and, consumers became more value-sensitive both in terms of financial value and personal values. In the U.S., Finally, 61% of U.S. In the past one year, U.S.

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Health Law Advisor

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Lowest Total Recoveries Since 2008 Record-Shattering Number of New Cases Filed Health Care and Life Sciences Cases Continue to Dominate On February 7, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released its annual False Claims Act (FCA) enforcement statistics for fiscal year (FY) 2022, which ended on September 30, 2022. [1]

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One of the hard-won lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic is that a lack of uniform adherence to preventive guidance allowed the virus to spread rapidly, causing millions of unnecessary deaths before vaccines were made available. difficile infections.

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Health Populi

MAY 30, 2022

Year 3 into the COVID-19 pandemic, health citizens are dealing with coronavirus variants in convergence with other challenges in daily life: price inflation, civil and social stress, anxiety and depression, global security concerns, and the safety of their families. As a result, more people in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The rationale was if we could take some burden off of the traditional healthcare system, it would have more bandwidth to focus on COVID-19 patients. It would also keep people that needed to see a provider for something routine, such as a sinus infection or bug bite, from being exposed to COVID-19 inside of a medical facility.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic has been that healthcare facilities need to scale up operations quickly to respond to a public health emergency and that doing so is a significant challenge. Hatem Zeine, Founder, President and CTO of Ossia. Hatem Zeine is the founder, president and CTO of Ossia.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Dr. Fendrick was part of a team that wrote one of the first research articles on the effects of increasing patient cost sharing on health disparities — published in 2008 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. have struggled to pay for living expenses since December 2020, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Care Law Brief

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And, second, the HMH Bill would extend for 7 years the community paramedicine demonstration program, established during the COVID-19 pandemic, and authorize nurse practitioners (“NPs”) and licensed physicians to prescribe non-patient specific standing orders for vaccinations by emergency medical services practitioners.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s failed responses to COVID-19, ranging from “testing to data to communications,” have prompted a call to reorganize the agency. Even as thousands of Americans continued to die from COVID, the Health Resources and Services Administration stopped accepting claims submitted under this program.

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 1, 2023

In the era of abortion regulation and the wind-down of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”), new legislation in states such as Utah may be a sign of what is to come for online and telehealth prescribing. 18 U.S.C. §

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Health Law Advisor

MARCH 7, 2023

Background on the Ryan Haight Act The Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act of 2008 (the “Ryan Haight Act”) made certain amendments to the CSA which established controls on the remote prescribing of controlled substances. 19, 2021), [link] [6] U.S. 18 U.S.C. § Department of Justice, Press Release, U.S.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 30, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic and its concomitant social-distancing efforts rendered many, if not most, health visits inaccessible, telehealth platforms and companies swiftly stepped in to allow for virtual patient-doctor consultations. About Cerebral Inc.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 18, 2022

What has been one digital health investment trend during the COVID-19 pandemic, and why is it important? Before COVID-19, a few companies, such as Livongo, made a splash in the digital health community by going public – Livongo in July 2019. Worse yet, COVID-19 has exacerbated mental and behavioral health issues.

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

David presented the latest Pantone forecast on color and society in NewTopia – A Balance of Color Opposites – Color for a Post-COVID World this week. Post-pandemic, the consumer’s priority purchases are grocery, nesting, and health, according to David Shah, a leading thinker about social and design trends.

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2023

NATIONAL 3 big noncompete ban wins for physicians 5 systems join $50M poverty and cancer program AHA advises Congress how to advance MACRA payment models Amazon delays virtual care service’s unveiling after senators raised privacy concerns At AHA Hill briefing, hospital leaders say site-neutral payment cuts jeopardize access to care for patients and (..)

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HIPAA Journal

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Recently, NIST issued a draft update (SP 800-66r2) to its 2008 publication: An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule, and sought feedback from industry stakeholders ahead of the publication of the final version of the guidance. Background.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. Effective October 19, 2021. 2008(a), the Department of Health issued a notice of readoption of Licensure Standards for Mental Health Programs with technical changes and recodification of N.J.A.C. 19; repealed N.J.A.C. 13:44F-11.

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