Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

.” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. As we all enter 2022, we can all use a dose of joy and self-compassion.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Australian government has set aside A$106 million ($76 million) over four years to support what it calls "permanent" telehealth, which will ensure flexibility in healthcare delivery and continuous health consultations via phone or online. WHY IT MATTERS. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. million ($22.8

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 26, 2022

We reached out to six healthcare executives for their trends and predictions on healthcare cybersecurity and ransomware to watch in 2022. As we head into 2022, it is likely we will see an increase in both the sheer number of attacks on hospitals as well as severity. Milan Shah, Chief Technology Officer of Biofourmis.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. And most relate solely to COVID-19 interventions, which sunset permanently as states withdraw their emergencies.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

Here’s a key detail in the fine print of the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government: “ Equal opportunity is the bedrock of American democracy, and our diversity is one of our country’s greatest strengths.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

Judge Zione Ntaba’s contribution highlights how courts in Malawi decided cases relating to the Government’s responses to the COVID-19 pandemic , including, in particular, the provision of social security measures in parallel with lockdown measures, and the policy proposals relating to mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

This month’s article looks at COVID enforcements.?? ?. Healthcare compliance history has shown that when the government disperses significant funds, audits and enforcement associated with the disbursement of those funds will shortly follow. In April 2022, officials at the U.S. MorseLife agreed to pay $1.75

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Compliancy Group

JANUARY 13, 2022

Supreme Court today (January 13, 2022) issued a stay of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard that would have forced all private employers in the country with more than 100 workers to require COVID-19 vaccinations or masks and weekly testing for unvaccinated staff.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” From 2020 to 2022, the U.S.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Governments may face difficult policy decisions in their attempts to expeditiously control the spread of disease. Government, the U.S.

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Hall Render

MAY 13, 2022

FDA limits J&J COVID-19 vaccine due to rare blood clot risk. Travel nurses raced to help during Covid. Alaska COVID-19 hospitalizations increase slightly. Arizona Hospital Safety Grades 2022: The Best And Worst. California Hospital Safety Grades 2022: The Best And Worst. HHS awards $16.3M

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The most extreme embodiment of this phenomenon, vaccine nationalism , happens when perfectly lawful tools — contracts known as advance purchase agreements — are used to skew the allocation of vaccine doses to wealthier governments and their populations whenever there is a surge in transnational demand for a given vaccine.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 14, 2022

Those deadlines (January 27 and February 28, 2022) are described in more detail in in the Compliance Dates section of our earlier article here. In the case of the CMS IFR, the government requested dissolution of the stay in effect for that rule in many states to prevent CMS from enforcing its vaccine requirements.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa. Governments cannot do this alone.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released its latest 2023 Spring Semiannual Report to Congress, providing a comprehensive overview of its activities from October 2022 to March 2023. The convicted individual was employed as a data entry specialist at a vaccination provider company.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Liability shields in the pandemic context may also be interpreted as “symbolic gestures by state legislators who were desperate to point to action at a time when government at all levels seemed paralyzed in the face of COVID.” Legal limitations and strategies.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. The notion that certain TRIPS flexibilities are exceptional to the COVID-19 crisis. By James Love.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. In this post, I argue that young people should have the opportunity to consent to vaccines. By Victoria Kalumbi.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2022

Below are the most recent health care related regulatory developments as published in the New Jersey Register in April-July 2022: April 2022. On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R. On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R. 290 (2022). On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R. 292 (2022). On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Contract Nurse Agencies Are Making Big Money in the Age of COVID-19. CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023. Alabama’s Covid-19 positivity rate falling, giving hope to health leader. 67 rural hospital CEOs to know | 2022.

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Hall Render

JULY 22, 2022

Covid-19 public health emergency extended in the US. Healthcare Merger and Acquisition Activity Generates $19B in Q2 2022. million doses of monkeypox vaccine. CDC scrambles to provide tests and vaccines. Another COVID-19 vaccine, developed by Maryland-based Novavax, approved for U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s May 2022 provisional data estimates that the United States suffered 107,622 overdose deaths in 2021, which translates to an overdose death every 5 minutes and is the highest number of such deaths ever reported in a calendar year in American history. While the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

Sitting in front of my computer this year for the first day of the 2022 J.P. agilon health noted modest COVID-related Medicare Advantage inpatient utilization, partially offset with a pronounced shift to outpatient care, based upon agilon’s latest data. It’s also an area of growing concern for the the federal government.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

APRIL 14, 2023

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Makes Progress in the Whole-of-Government Response to Long COVID U.S. In addition, VA is deploying a digital screening platform at four of its health systems to rapidly identify those with Long COVID to provide clinical intervention and support. Agencies across the U.S.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“We also have to admit we dismally failed in terms of equitable rollout, equitable distribution, and that is something we really need to do better in 2022,” Cueni said. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Underpinning this private power was intellectual property (IP).

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Moderna wants the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6. After nearly 2 million COVID-19 cases in Arizona, officials are ‘cautiously optimistic’. Outstanding Women in Business 2022: Get to know Carmen Neuberger of Phoenix Children’s. Health at the Capitol Week 9 (March 18, 2022).

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives. Government and employers will provide only as much justice as they are forced to by the political consequences we create, no less and no more.

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Health Law Advisor

MAY 3, 2022

On April 20, 2022, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a nationwide coordinated enforcement action targeting COVID-19-related fraud involving charges against 21 individuals across nine federal districts, and over $149 million in alleged false claims submitted to federal programs. [1]. 2] See id. [3]

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The pandemic prison has utilized several of the worst features of incarceration as a foundational part of how the institution governs “public health” for its captives. The scale of COVID-19 in jails, prisons, and detention centers was expected. By Dan Berger.

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

Clair Health partners with Duquesne University College of Osteopathic Medicine UPMC sees lower operating income in 2022 as economic headwinds persist UPMC settles lawsuit with federal government for $8.5

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

government grant for maternal health care Alabama slides to 50th on nursing home and long-term care report card Ascension sells Alabama hospital Ascension St. government grant for maternal health care Alabama slides to 50th on nursing home and long-term care report card Ascension sells Alabama hospital Ascension St.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

government grant for maternal health care Alabama slides to 50th on nursing home and long-term care report card Ascension sells Alabama hospital Ascension St. government grant for maternal health care Alabama slides to 50th on nursing home and long-term care report card Ascension sells Alabama hospital Ascension St.

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Hall Render

APRIL 29, 2022

Federal judge temporarily blocks Biden administration from ending Title 42 Covid border restrictions for migrants. Healthcare deals decline 34% in Q1 2022: 8 things to know from KPMG. Hospitals to OSHA: Do not finalize COVID-19 standard for healthcare workers. Hawaii shifts from treating COVID pandemic like an emergency.

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Hall Render

MARCH 31, 2023

in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? in 2022, survey finds Senate votes to end COVID-19 national emergency Why are 600+ rural hospitals at risk of closing? Union survey: Mass. How long can temp staffing fill that gap?

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Hall Render

AUGUST 4, 2023

News The 5 best hospitals in Florida for cardiac care Florida COVID-19 cases almost double since May GEORGIA 12 Metro ATL Hospitals Among Nation’s Best: U.S. to settle Medicare fraud claims Maine in top 10 for health care, No.

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Hall Render

MARCH 18, 2022

Bill limiting COVID-19 vaccine requirements passes the Alaska Senate, but it faces slim odds in the House. grants religious exemption from COVID-19 vaccine mandate to Catholic nun after lawsuit. DC Has Stopped Releasing Daily COVID Case Counts. New COVID variant spreads quickly in NJ.

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

Idaho’s COVID-19 positivity rate is rising rapidly again. Valley doctor, pharmacy, volunteer among 2022 ‘Health Heroes’ ILLINOIS. Vincent sued over COVID-19 vaccine religious exemption process. COVID Infection Data In Maryland Could Be Skewed By At-Home Test Kits, Expert Says.

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