Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2023

By Adam Herpolsheimer By no means the first foray into gender identity-based discrimination, the legacy of North Carolina’s HB2 (2016) — known colloquially as the bathroom bill — is one we cannot shake. HB2 was particularly bothersome and ill-advised because of the legal mechanism it used to achieve its goals: preemption.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 30, 2021

Questions about the future of telehealth regulations have endured ever since the federal government opted to relax some of them during the COVID-19 pandemic. Provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the permanent authority to waive telehealth restrictions. Access for Medicare beneficiaries. A years-long effort.

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Health Populi

APRIL 12, 2024

Those pens would do two things to modernize American health care for both patients and doctors: first, Congress would pass the CONNECT for Health Act (HR 4189. S 2016) and second, re-introduce and sign the Telehealth Modernization Act. Plainly put, we have 20 th Century laws governing 21 st century health care delivery.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Because of airlines’ legal obligations to mitigate the risk of in-flight infectious disease transmission, in 2016 I suggested that they could require vaccination, where safe and effective vaccines were widely available. By Christopher Robertson. Do airlines have legal obligations to manage the risk of in-flight infections?

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 7, 2020

The 128-page update to AMA's Digital Health Implementation Playbook Series comes as telehealth adoption is increasing by leaps amid the coronavirus pandemic. During the pandemic, the federal government has taken unprecedented steps to widen access to telehealth: increasing reimbursements , removing regulatory barriers and more.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: U.S. workers with private insurance more likely report poor access to health care, greater costs of care, and lower satisfaction with care versus people covered by public health insurance plans — whether Medicaid, Medicare, VHA or military coverage. One-half of U.S.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The Massachusetts Health & Hospital Association (MHA) is a prominent organization representing hospitals and health systems across Massachusetts, advocating for policies and practices that support healthcare delivery and patient care.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The Undefeated was started in May 2016, and has been a thought leader on topics of race and sports in America.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Five years ago, in 2016, the W2O Group said that, “Relevance is reputation.” ” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. This includes health care. FYI, I did not have a hand in this study. .

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Florida Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Florida Department of Health (DOH) plays a crucial role in promoting and safeguarding the wellbeing of Floridians. This post offers an overview of must-know compliance requirements for Florida.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 23, 2022

A 2016 Nature article reported that more than 70% of surveyed researchers tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments. This has been called the “reproducibility crisis” and has been described in a number of studies.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Some children may be unvaccinated by no choice of their own, but instead because of decisions made by parents, guardians, or state or local government officials. Fuse Brown, Developing a Durable Right to Health Care , 14 Minn. 15] Emily Parker, Constitutional Obligations for Public Education , Educ. 251, 254 (2016). [18]

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2022

[Edelman usually releases a specific health industry deck some weeks after the initial Trust Barometer publication, which I will cover as soon as the data are available], Overall, peoples’ trust across the world in NGOs, business, government, and media, has stayed relatively flat over 2021 levels, the bar chart illustrates at the top-line.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Currently, the Defense Department’s threshold for drinking water is 70 parts per trillion based on a 2016 EPA advisory. Adding that not all PFAS compounds are the same and arguing that not all are harmful to human health, Fay said risk-based categorization and control is vital to the continued use of the chemicals.

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Provider Trust

OCTOBER 12, 2021

government estimates that >200,000 new RN positions will be created each year from 2016 to 2026. Most healthcare services involve some sort of care by nurses including private practices, primary care clinics, home health, nursing homes, hospices, and more. Additional Complexities During The Public Health Emergency.

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Tennessee Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Tennessee Department of Health (TDOH) plays a vital role in promoting the health and wellbeing of Tennessee residents. Significant changes were made to the program as of July 1, 2016.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

I’d called WiFi a social determinant of health in a Huffington Post column I wrote back in 2016 , recognizing the emerging virtual health opportunity and potential for furthering the digital divide without bolstering broadband “everywhere.” Some are shown in this graphic.

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AIHC

AUGUST 8, 2023

The “Cobra” - In the late 1800s-early 1900s when India was ruled by the British government, there was a problem with venomous cobras invading major cities. The British government decided to take action and offered citizens a bounty to redeem for dead cobras. The government eventually found out and stopped the financial incentives.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 8, 2022

What happened in the two years between the contract award and the start of the program is a case study in what can go wrong when government outsources core functions to the private sector. California awarded the Medi-Cal Rx program to a unit of Magellan Health, a company with expertise in pharmacy benefits and mental health.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 11, 2023

But it can also include underpayments from public health plans, as well as the costs of training medical professionals and doing research. Still, the Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog agency, argues that community benefit is poorly defined.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 6, 2022

About 30% of its funding comes from government grants and contracts. Since graduating in 2016, Weston has worked in development for Hope Connection International , a nonprofit his mother started to support survivors of abuse and addiction. million annually in criminal justice and emergency care costs.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The “Cobra” - In the late 1800s-early 1900s when India was ruled by the British government, there was a problem with venomous cobras invading major cities. The British government decided to take action and offered citizens a bounty to redeem for dead cobras. The government eventually found out and stopped the financial incentives.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The “Cobra” - In the late 1800s-early 1900s when India was ruled by the British government, there was a problem with venomous cobras invading major cities. The British government decided to take action and offered citizens a bounty to redeem for dead cobras. The government eventually found out and stopped the financial incentives.

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Compliance US Department of Health and Human Services COVID-19 Hospitals 52

SQA

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The New Zealand government didn’t even have its own space agency until 2016, ten years after Rocket Lab was founded. Project Coordinator, Joy Callejo Joy Callejo graduated from the University of California, Davis with a Bachelor’s in International Relations, and minors in Public Health and French.

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Health Law Advisor

AUGUST 10, 2023

2] Implementing the 21st Century Cures Act from 2016, regulated CDS software includes that intended to “analyze” “medical information about a patient or other medical information” “for the purpose of supporting or providing recommendations to a healthcare professional about prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of a disease or condition.”

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SQA

AUGUST 2, 2021

These standards include but are not limited to the following list and are available at no charge in read-only format: ISO 374-5:2016, Protective gloves against dangerous chemicals and micro-organisms – Part 5: Terminology and performance requirements for micro-organisms risk. ISO 13688:2013, Protective clothing – General requirements.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Dunleavy proposes extending Medicaid coverage for new mothers ARIZONA Banner Health pays $1.25M penalty over HIPAA failures from 2016 breach Arizona nursing school at risk of losing accreditation St. million to UMass Memorial Health Care for COVID-19 costs Four Mass. billion since pandemic U.S. What to know.

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2022

List Health Advance as an “Official Canadian Distributor” Include the text “Health Canada Approved” (Claims of endorsement by government authorities, such as Health Canada, are not permitted.). Counterfeit health products are imitations of authentic products. .” instead of BTNX Inc.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 28, 2022

Public HIT companies were not spared in the market downturn that began in January 2022, losing an astonishing 34% over the last 6 months, with an overwhelming 56 out of 68 tracked companies ending the first half of the year with negative returns. With low unemployment, wages are gaining but at a lower rate than prices overall. ?

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Jill Biden will lead new initiative to boost federal government research into women’s health Joint Commission says acute, critical access hospitals must join safety network Lawsuit claims UnitedHealth AI wrongfully denies elderly extended care Most Rural U.S. Compensation is key Is spine surgery expansion next for ASCs?

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 6, 2024

McKinsey and team have considered data from U-Wash’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation on the global burden of disease, coupled with OECD data on retirement ages — for the latter, finding that the average pension age for women in 2016 was 63.7 Health Populi’s Hot Points: More tightly focusing on the U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The Bhutan “good government” and other organizations use the GNH Index to either, “increase the percentage of people who are happy or decrease the insufficient conditions of people who are not-yet-happy,” a short guide to the GNH Index explains. Health, psychological well-being. Good governance.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2019

UPMC launching a social impact program focusing on SDoH, among other projects investing in social factors that bolster public health. As I pointed out in my 2020 Health Populi trendcast , the private sector is taking on more public health initiatives as policy progress at the Federal level feels frozen.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Over the ten years 2006 to 2016, deductibles increased an average of 176% and coinsurance, 67%. Wage growth over that decade was relatively flat, as workers covered by insurance through employers traded off health benefits for wage increases. This intolerable situation has escalated to a public health crisis.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

"My career has been about helping people live healthy lives," Levine told members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. "As the assistant secretary for health, I would be committed each day to helping the people of our nation and improving our public health."

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