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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

Bill of Health

Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape. A nation that spends nearly one out of every six dollars on health care should get much, much more for its money.

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Thinking Value-Based Health Care at HLTH 2022 – A Call-to-Action

Jane Sarashon

The cost of health insurance for a worker who buys into a health plan at work in 2022 reached $22,463 for their family. “When housing and health both rank as basic needs in Maslow’s hierarchy, what’s a health system to do?” Think sustainability for health and health care.

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

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. poverty rate. ” . .”

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Investing in Modern and Advanced Treatment Devices to Help Treatment-Resistant Patient Populations

HIT Consultant

Intravenous (IV) ketamine and intranasal esketamine also have demonstrated efficacy for TRD, but there is not yet sufficient evidence for maintenance treatments, they require anesthesia or nurse monitoring, and patients cannot drive home right after a treatment. George, M.D. demonstrated the antidepressant effects of repetitive TMS (rTMS).

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

for physician referral scheme In Los Angeles, hospital CEO pay could be capped Kaiser Permanente ratings affirmed amid healthy financial profile Nurses vote ‘no confidence’ in California hospital administration, board Nursing facility, management company settle physician kickback allegations for $3.8M

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

There are even statistics bantered about as to percentage of physicians, nurses, and others who will lose their jobs to AI technology. A technology called blockchain was developed in 2008 and has found its biggest interest in the financial industry. That aside, AI can have a significant role in improving patient safety.

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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

Health Populi

More #nurses than #miners #healthcosts. Fastest growing jobs in US are in #healthcare says @paulkrugman at #hx360 @himss #himss18 #Healtheconomics is US are tightly integrated into overall American economy.

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