Health Law Advisor

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In 2008 , however, the agencies disagreed about the transfer of hydrocodone combination products from Schedule III to Schedule II. However, HHS’ recommendation for a lower classification of marijuana is a bellwether for the eventual re-classification of the drug in Schedule III. The agencies rarely disagree on final scheduling placement.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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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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. The Great Recession was a direct hit on national and personal economics; health was an indirect impact.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2022

states since 2008. In 2020, Sharecare began a collaboration with the Boston University School of Public Health to expand the Index, including drivers of health such as, Healthcare access (like physician supply per 1,000 residents). Sharecare has been annually tracking well-being across the 50 U.S.

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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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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 8, 2022

Recently, monkeypox has been announced as an international public health emergency by the World Health Organization. In 2008, a research study stated that if unvaccinated populations were to become exposed to monkeypox, then an epidemic could occur. It is similar to smallpox, as both come from the orthopoxvirus family.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2022

Yet when the ADA was originally enacted in 1990, and in 2008, when it was substantially amended, technology had not yet advanced to where it is today. Employers argue, and courts most often agree, that physical presence in the workplace is required as an “essential job function,” which cannot be waived even as an accommodation.

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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 Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) led to a rapid expansion in the utilization of telehealth. In July 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issue a Special Fraud Alert alerting practitioners to exercise caution when entering into arrangements with telemedicine companies.

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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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Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

Harvard Law School 2008) is a professor of legal sociology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo and a Research Professor in Humanitarian Studies at PRIO. The extension of international protection to Ukrainian pets raises issues with respect to the legitimate expectations of future refugee populations. Kristin Bergtora Sandvik (LL.M

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Increased availability of opioid prescription drugs, chronic pain (for which opioids are often prescribed), and the economic crisis which began in 2008 may all have contributed to an increase in overdoses, suicide, and increased liver disease associated with alcohol abuse.”

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 5, 2022

adults in early December 2021 for this survey, Health Populi’s Hot Points: Trust is a pre-cursor for health engagement, with authenticity running a close second as a factor that health consumers lean into when partnering with organizations for their health. Morning Consult polled 2,200 U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2021

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act. .”

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Health Populi

JUNE 25, 2021

The “vaxinista” theme appearing on clothes and accessories, combining “fashionista” and “vaccine” to show off one’s commitment to public health on social media and in selfies. The “Xupermask” made of silicon and athletic mesh fabric, a joint venture of Will.i.am

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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.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In 2008, a team at Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that bringing cleaning compliance from 44% to 71% was linked to a 49% reduction in MRSA. difficile infections.

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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

MAY 29, 2020

In the coronavirus quarantine era, millions of Americans have been staying home to flatten the curve, and it’s been working from the evidence-based, public health standpoint. But this first-wave impact of the pandemic and #StayHome mandates have exacted a price on financial and mental health.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Key to scalability is to integrate behavioral health into primary care –requiring a huge shift in the way we look at mental health as, simply and profoundly, health. Finally, we must expand the mental health workforce, starting with young people in school to inspire students to enter career paths serving well-being.

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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. The economic recession in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

It was not until years later in 2008 that her wrongful conviction was overturned by the state’s Supreme Court. . In 2001, prosecutors charged McKnight with homicide allegedly caused by her use of cocaine while pregnant. The jury in the case returned a guilty verdict after deliberating for thirty minutes.

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Health Populi

JUNE 30, 2020

The World Health Organization identified stress as one of the top ten determinants of disparities in health in 2008. is really dealing with several waves of dramatic challenges at once: The coronavirus crisis, a test of the nation’s health system and public health infrastructure.

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C&M Health Law

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Health Care Operations. Public Health. It has taken some time for ONC to publish TEFCA, but it is important to note that ONC has looked at governance for health information exchange for many years. Here are some key activities: The Nationwide Privacy and Security Framework for Health IT published in 2008.

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Health Law RX

JULY 25, 2022

The EEOC notes that employers will meet the “business necessity” standard when such testing is consistent with current guidance from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”), Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”), and/or state/local public health authorities.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 30, 2023

With the Secretary of Health and Human Services declaring a public health emergency due to COVID-19 on 1/31/2020 , practitioners were permitted by state law to “dispense controlled substances not only in their home states but also in states with which their home states have reciprocity.”

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2020

.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: As the pandemic continues to exact tragic physical losses of close to 100,000 deaths in America as of 26th May 2020, the softening fiscal scenario in the U.S. looks like a “She-Cession,” impacting women’s financial health more than men’s in the U.S.

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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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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JANUARY 12, 2022

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register from October-December 2021: On October 4, 2021, at 53 N.J.R. 103, which declared a Public Health Emergency for the state in response to COVID-19. 1657(a), the Commissioner released a notice regarding Executive Order No.

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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. 18 U.S.C. §

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

2008)) and Germany. The WHO, whose assessment panel meets every three months to evaluate the status of the current Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) (pandemic), has not yet downgraded this designation, and some experts estimate that it will be another 2-3 years before it does so. see Jacobsen v.

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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.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

As questions arose about the availability of ventilators and other medical resources, health care providers dusted off crisis standards of care that explicitly devalued the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities by noting their potential unsuitability for treatment in times of emergency rationing.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bootstrapped since its formation in 2008, Evidence Partners pioneered the development of AI-enabled literature review software through the development of DistillerSR, which has had double-digit growth since the platform’s launch in 2009. .

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. The DEA has allowed EPCS during a telehelath visit since the beginning of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 31, 2023

The second is that if we were to devise a hypothetical insurance market to decide what should be part of the public health care provision, most people may want to include fertility treatment in that provision due to the value that many attribute to having children.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Telemedicine is poised to address these access gaps if it remains legal as public-health emergency orders expire. Patients with OUD face tremendous geographic barriers to receiving life-saving care: about half of all counties in the U.S.

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