Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

by Jessica Samuels For 100 years, food fortification , the practice of deliberately increasing the content of vitamins and minerals in a food, has been essential to combating public health crises. Public Health Service recommended that all women of reproductive age get 400 micrograms (mcg) of folic acid per day.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 11, 2025

What You Should Know: – A recent report KLAS report has shed light on the ongoing cybersecurity challenges facing the healthcare industry, emphasizing the ripple effects of breaches like the 2024 Change Healthcare incident. HPH CPGs Analysis: Similar to the NIST CSF 2.0

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This shift carries profound implications for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as they work to enforce new cybersecurity requirements in the healthcare sector.

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HealthIT Answers

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Starts December 4th in Washington DC - Attend the 2024 ASTP Annual Meeting for two days of conversation, learning, and networking. You'll hear about the key issues at the intersection of health care, public health, policymaking, and technology through a variety of keynote speakers and mainstage, breakout, and education sessions.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This strategic acquisition underscores Health Commons Project’s commitment to expanding its impact by improving data interoperability, enhancing care coordination, and promoting public health across Washington. “Our shared mission of using health data to improve patient outcomes will be more achievable than ever.”

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 8, 2024

News from RSNA 2024 Siemens Healthineers has adopted NVIDIA’s MONAI Deploy , an open-source research and development platform for AI applications used in medical imaging. Sales Volunteers of America chose Dimagi as the digital partner for its Public Health AmeriCorps Community Health Worker program.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

The 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) demonstrates a recent increase in direct vulnerability exploitation with a comparable decrease in broad phishing attacks, making attacks more targeted, sophisticated, and harder to detect. The urgency to translate this guidance into actionable strategies has never been higher.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 14, 2024

About $9 million was earmarked for its rollout in the 2024 budget. Enterprise Taxonomy: EHR Population and Public Health Digital Health Core Technologies Care Technology

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 21, 2025

Recently, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand released its first Health Infrastructure Plan, which outlines "a national, long-term approach to renewing and expanding the country’s public health facilities."

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This quote is from a January 2024 op-ed by Dr. Shannon MacDonald, a radiation oncologist at Mass General Brigham who uses telehealth to provide specialty care across state lines. Figure 1 shows the geographic spread of telehealth registrations across the country as of 2024.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

For this among other reasons, it’s predicted that by 2024 nearly two-thirds of all apps will be built using low-code development platforms. Meanwhile, public health — a sector where these benefits could have far-reaching impact — has been relatively insulated from this revolution. The reasons for this are multiple.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

WA Health extends cloud contract with Atos Atos will continue delivering managed services, hybrid cloud, and core infrastructure services to Health Support Services (HSS), the ICT service provider for WA Health, following a contract extension. It has been working with HSS on the digital transformation of WA Health since 2019.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 5, 2024

IKEA donated the small home to the community of Towne Twin Village in greater San Antonio in October 2024. The company is collecting data to learn more about the direct impacts of people living in the pioneering space and will advocate for TID to be an industry standard that helps people heal and find stability in their lives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2025

Healthcare IT Today caught up with Yurcisin at the 2024 NCQA Health Innovation Summit in Nashville, TN. ” NCQA is driving initiatives to ensure data used for HEDIS measures meets the highest standards, making it suitable for broader use cases like prior authorization and public health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2025

THE LARGER TREND Without a third extension before the end of 2024 , the expiration of telehealth prescribing flexibilities would have required patients to have an in-person visit with a provider within 30 days or lose access to medications. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Partnerships Patient outreach vendor Phreesia and the Ad Council launched three public health campaigns about mental health and have delivered 430,000 messages to patients and caregivers so far. GE HealthCare is integrating Blackford Analysis AI-enabled decision support into its into True PACS and Centricity PACS products.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Power 2024 U.S. Power 2024 U.S. The data is based on responses from 4,070 healthcare customers who utilized telehealth services in the past year, collected between September 2023 and July 2024. Telehealth Satisfaction Study. Study Background/Methodology The J.D.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Department of Health & Human Services and the Louisiana Department of Health. MPH 2025) is a third-year dual degree law and public health student. Her research interests include genetics, environmental health sciences, novel biotechnologies, and the FDA regulatory process. Jessica Samuels (J.D./MPH

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In contrast, the Maternal and Child Health Stillbirth Prevention Act of 2024 — a health care law that was successfully enacted this term — was sponsored by 21 senators and 63 representatives. However, the bill’s viability is uncertain. The bill is sponsored by only six senators and eleven representatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 4, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. We believe that trend will accelerate further in 2024 as obesity medication options and supply grow. In 2024, nurse leaders will drive the paradigm shift toward AI-enabled virtual nursing.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Labour Court has recently indicated its acceptance of a “modern” trade union in Simunye Workers Forum v Registrar of Labour Relations and held that the Registrar of Labour must register Simunye Workers Forum as a trade union.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 10, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Jason Considine, Chief Commercial Officer at Experian Health Staffing shortages will continue to be a major pain point for providers in 2024 and have a direct impact on their bottom line. Morgenstern.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. 2024 will likely see continued hype regarding A.I. With the clinician shortage expected to continue – and possibly even worsen – in 2024, automation is key from the start of the clinician’s staffing journey (i.e.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 9, 2024

As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. Christoph Pedain, Business Leader, Hospital Patient Monitoring at Philips By the end of 2024, we will see significant moves by hospitals and health systems embracing readiness for Service-Oriented Device Connectivity (SDC).

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Bill of Health

MARCH 20, 2025

Americans wagered nearly $150 million on sports in 2024, a more than 1,000 percent increase from 2019. Related Articles Addiction Measures for Recreational Marijuana Failed in Three States: a Win for Public Health By The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Addiction TikTok, Tobacco, and Addiction, Oh My! billion in state tax revenue.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Tasmanian government has recently released a four-year strategy to transform outpatient services across its public health system. Tasmania's Transforming Outpatient Services Strategy seeks to shorten wait times, improve communication, and modernise processes.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 23, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jolie Ritzo, VP of Strategy and Network Engagement at Civitas Networks for Health Health data management in 2024 is both intricate and complex.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Soft launched in April, the sandbox pilots will conclude by March 2024. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Population and Public Health Quality Care Digital Health Care Technology. WHAT IT'S ABOUT.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

What You Should Know: – ECRI , an independent healthcare safety organization, has released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards list for 2024 , highlighting critical safety concerns for healthcare providers and the medical device industry. These systems offer a range of capabilities (e.g.,

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

patients with sensitive health issues are more comfortable making appointments with chatbots than with staff, according to the Talkdesk U.S. Consumer Healthcare Survey, conducted in August 2024 on the online platform Pollfish. Enterprise Taxonomy: AI Population and Public Health Analytics Care Data and Information

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Jane Sarashon

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

were sensible, weight management would be treated as a public health issue,” David Cutler writes in the JAMA Health Forum dated August 15, 2024. health care” citing the example of weight loss medications — in short, the uptake of GLP-1 drugs to address Type 2 diabetes first, and subsequently obesity.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

About the author Jessica Samuels is a third-year dual degree law and public health student (J.D./MPH Her research interests include genetics, environmental health sciences, novel biotechnologies, and the FDA regulatory process. It is now well understood that the development of cancer is complex and multifactorial.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 27, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)is seeking public input on a new draft plan outlining the nation’s health information technology (health IT) strategy for the next six years. Visit HealthIT.gov to learn more and submit your comments.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 8, 2024

To that end, the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law has teamed up with The Pew Charitable Trusts to begin tracking state laws that regulate debt collection lawsuits. Explore the research at LawAtlas.org and read our policy brief , which offers an in-depth analysis of the landscape.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

News The 2024 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule continues many telehealth flexibilities first adopted during the public health emergency, such as an expanded scope of originating sites an expanded definition of qualified practitioners. of the Common Agreement and committed to having TEFCA support FHIR-based exchange within 2024.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 17, 2025

One of the objectives of the HIPAA Journal 2024/25 Annual Survey was to obtain insights into HIPAA compliance best practices. In December 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its strategy for Healthcare Sector Cybersecurity.

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