KFF

JULY 13, 2023

A new report from KFF and The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reveals that donor governments disbursed US$8.2 billion in 2022 to combat HIV in low- and middle-income countries, returning to 2020 funding levels and still below the high-water mark of $8.6 billion in 2014.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As Americans approach November 3, 2020, the day of the real-time U.S. Twenty-seven days before the 2020 elections, 7 in 10 Americans say their financial health will influence their votes this year, according to the doxoINSIGHTS survey which shows personal financial health as a key voter consideration in the Presidential election.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 6, 2021

" As I reflect upon the year 2020, it is unequivocally highlighted and underscored as the most significant year in my lifetime thus far regarding the healthcare industry's response to the desperation generated by the coronavirus. Here's hoping that our actions will be dictated by "assurance" rather than desperation.

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Healthcare Law Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The government buys billions of dollars in healthcare-related goods and services every year, and no government procurement is perfect. If the answer is “yes”—or even “maybe”—healthcare companies may file a bid protest at the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) or the U.S. B-417836, 2020 CPD ¶ 47 ( Nov.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Kathumba case: separation of powers, social security, and lockdowns The Khatumba case involved an order made by the Minister of Health for a temporary, national 3-week lockdown from April 18, 2020 to May 2020 due an increase in COVID-19 cases. Ultimately, the Court upheld the applicants’ challenges for a range of reasons.

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KFF

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

In 2021, donor government funding for family planning activities totaled US$1.39 billion, essentially flat compared to the 2020 amount (US$1.41 This report provides an analysis of donor government funding to address family planning in low- and middle-income countries in 2021.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2020

health systems are projected to lose $323 billion in 2020 due to declining inpatient and outpatient volumes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the “normal” hospital business. Hospitals racked up over $200 bn in losses between March and June 2020. What’s the worth of $323 billion? Wage and labor costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 18, 2020

One of the interviews I was most looking forward to at the now cancelled HIMSS 2020 annual conference was with Tom Leary, VP of Government Relations at HIMSS. I’ve found that the government relations people at organizations like HIMSS are some of the most well informed people and are fonts of knowledge on what we […].

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Most recently, in 2020, 11 children in India died of DEG poisoning. In fact, before publishing the book, the authors petitioned the government, highlighting glaring regulatory issues, but the government turned a blind eye. India has had at least five major cases of DEG poisoning in the past.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

As the digital transformation in healthcare lags behind other industries and value-based care drives provider efficiencies while the government invests in healthcare cost reduction and access measures, health tech is positively overripe for disruption.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.] Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2020

But in developed, wealthier parts of the world, like the U.S., “a record number of countries are experiencing an all-time high ‘mass-class’ trust divide,” according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer. But consumers’ trust with other industries, especially finance, energy and telecomms, grew in the past year.

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Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

Advertising Age announced their list of the top 20 brands in 2020 this week. Whether the public and the government listen is another matter.” COVID-19 accelerated trends already in place by early 2020. By April 8, 2020, Dr. Fauci was the most trusted source of coronavirus information among U.S. In the U.S.,

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KFF

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A new KFF analysis finds donor government support for global family planning efforts totaled US$1.40 billion in 2020, a decline of US$114 million compared to last year’s level of US$1.52 This decline in donor funding was largely due to the decreased funding from the UK, family planning’s second largest donor after the US.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 15, 2023

million people from February 2020 to January 2023. Additionally, there had been increased adherence to prescription medicines among patients with chronic diseases following the temporary implementation of telemedicine in 2020. FINDINGS According to the report, over 25,000 medical institutions provided remote treatment to 13.79

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Healthcare Blog

APRIL 13, 2023

As hospitals have become increasingly complex organizations, effective governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) strategies have become essential for ensuring patient safety and regulatory compliance. What are the Key Components of a Successful Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Strategy? Epub 2020 Oct 6. doi: 10.1111/nuf.12514.

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Fierce Healthcare

JULY 18, 2023

Fewer target Provider Relief Fund (PRF) payments sent to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic’s opening year reached hospitals serving patient populations with more Hispanic/Latino Americans, acc | The government watchdog found that hospitals serving heavier concentrations of Hispanic/Latino Americans were tied to lower Provider Relief Fund payments (..)

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 31, 2020

Next, I’m thankful for Penn Medicine’s leadership that participates in our information services governance, sets institutional priorities and provides our teams with the resources necessary to continue to be leaders in health care delivery. Mike Restuccia is the chief information officer of Penn Medicine.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2019

In 2020, large employers will be “doubling down” efforts to control health care costs. This is the annual forecast for 2020 brought to us by the National Business Group of Health (NBGH), the Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

States maintain these obligations even when non-State actors are involved in health care financing, provision, and governance, albeit further normative development in this area is still urgently needed. 3 ICESCR ) for the full realization of the right to health.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In 2019, China announced a new law prohibiting Chinese organizations from sharing genetic data with foreign groups without government approval. Government officials recently have expressed concern about the open-access sharing of U.K. Other countries have taken notice. citizens’ health data with China.

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The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 1, 2022

The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic began. Indest III, J.D., Since then, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed it each quarter. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra officially renewed the declaration extending it through October 13, 2022.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2022

public health infrastructure nor American political culture support the kind of muscular central government mandates that have characterized the COVID-19 policies of many other countries. In this blog post, I will describe why this represents a lost opportunity. Neither the U.S. However, there was never any evidence to justify these laws.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

MARCH 3, 2021

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register in December 2020 and January 2021: On December 7, 2020, at 52 N.J.R. scheduled for September 1, 2020, until September 1, 2021. Effective September 1, 2020 to March 19, 2021. 8:33 and N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1 et seq.,

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The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 18, 2022

The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.]. Indest III, J.D., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By now, it's become a truism that telehealth use saw an enormous jump in 2020 , spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by the relaxation of federal regulations. During the pandemic, somewhere around in the second quarter of 2020, this number actually even went up to about 25% of the appointments.

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Bill of Health

MAY 22, 2023

The selections feature topics ranging from an analysis of government and industry investments for recently approved drugs, to a discussion of court decisions on mifepristone, and an examination of the added therapeutic benefit associated with the top-selling brand-name drugs in Medicare. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Apr 3;6(4):e238835.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Launched in 2020, the DHI measures a health organisation's progress in building a digital health ecosystem in four dimensions: governance and workforce, predictive analytics, interoperability, and person-enabled health. Samsung Medical Center in South Korea has achieved a top score globally for the HIMSS Digital Health Indicator.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Their multivariable regression model analyzed weekly EHR metadata, comparing the same measures for one year before the pandemic – August 2018-September 2019 – with the same period one year after its onset – August 2020-September 2021. hours per eight patient scheduled hours.

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Hall Render

JUNE 8, 2023

On-campus medical office asset prices exceeded those of off-campus assets in Q1 2023 for the first time since Q1 2020, according to a report from Cushman & Wakefield. No lawsuit has yet been filed by either party.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 26, 2023

have debated whether the government should produce drugs and biologics. Ultimately, the industry was successful in keeping the government away from biologics manufacturing by agreeing to abide by government regulations. By Aparajita Lath For over 100 years, policy makers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

THE LARGER TREND The passage of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 in June makes telehealth flexibilities that were first introduced in the CARES Act of 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic permanent. A resources toolkit that includes a new road map.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

“The simple fact is that the federal and state governments are doing almost nothing to help people who have a broadband service available that partially meets their needs but abuses them with regular price hikes, spotty reliability, and poor customer service. Among many reasons broadband continues to lag in certain parts of the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

European Digital Event taking place on 7-11 September 2020. In March 2020, the Scottish Government produced advice and guidance on Information Governance to support the safe deployment of telehealth. The milestone of 100,000 video enabled consultations between March-May 2020 has been reached.

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MedTrainer

MAY 21, 2020

MedTrainer Named the Best Compliance Management Solution Provider in the 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Awards. It can be programmed to automatically send reports to the Governing Board for review and approval. We congratulate them for their well-deserved 2020 MedTech Breakthrough Award.”. REDLANDS, Calif. –

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 20, 2021

2020 and 2021 saw the mainstreaming of telehealth and the rise of remote patient monitoring. These changes to the healthcare landscape were helped partly by requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic and partly by the subsequent loosening of telemedicine reimbursement and licensure regulations by the government. Will it become permanent?

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2023

Other researchers have found that “ many persons with disabilities do not receive any humanitarian support from NGOs or the Government ” following natural disasters. Many have wheelchair access ramps, and are heralded as accessible by the Bangladesh government and international funders, yet they lack accessible toilets.

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