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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. This is the failure to regulate our hospitals holistically, as part of a comprehensive health care system. By Barak D.

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How To Fight Candida Auris/Fungal Infections In Hospitals

HIT Consultant

Hospitals as Primary Lines of Defense Unfortunately, our places of healing also seem to be the most adept at spreading fungal infections. The good news is that a handful of innovative hospitals have demonstrated how even incremental process change can lead to a real impact on patient safety. difficile , methicillin-resistant S.

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Managing Healthcare Compliance in Michigan

MedTrainer

Michigan Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) focuses on safeguarding public health, implementing health programs, and ensuring the overall health and safety of the population.

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Building a Healthier Future with Real Wireless Power

HIT Consultant

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. Wireless power can be similarly transformative. . These applications are incredibly valuable as standalone benefits.

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Countercyclical Aid Is Not Enough to Fix the Broken US Approach to Public Health Financing

Bill of Health

If the pandemic has taught us anything about public policy, it is that the model of countercyclical federal aid — which expands at the onset of an economic crisis but abates as that crisis is resolved — is fundamentally inadequate when applied to the realm of public health. Consider that between 2008 and 2020, U.S.

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Trust Is a Key Social Currency for COVID-Embattled Consumers

Health Populi

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. The economic recession in the U.S.

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HHS Aims to Strengthen Anti-Discrimination Rules for Disabled Patients in New Proposed Rule

C&M Health Law

Section 504 covers all health care and human services programs and activities funded by HHS, from providers, like hospitals and doctors that accept Medicare or Medicare, to state child welfare programs, as well as Medicare Advantage Plans, and Medicaid Managed Care Plans. Comments may be submitted until November 13, 2023.

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