Healthcare IT Today

MAY 6, 2021

The following is a guest article by Joaquim Neto, Chief Product Officer at Verato. More than 200 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered in the United States, and another 3 million doses are given daily, recent data shows.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. government substantially de-risking the vaccine development process.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The following is a guest article by Kurt Waltenbaugh, CEO at Carrot Health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 7, 2021

The following is a guest article by Abner Mason, CEO at ConsejoSano. COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort is about to change in a big way.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The Catholic Health Association (CHA) is urging Americans to “love thy neighbor” by getting the COVID-19 vaccine, Sister Mary Haddad wrote in an editorial published in Modern Healthcare, published on September 3, 2011. You can see the co-branding with the Ad Council’s COVID-19 Vaccine Education Initiative.

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OSHA Law Blog

JANUARY 13, 2022

To read this article in its entirety, please click here. In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted a temporary stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS).

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Human Rights and Solidarity: The Case of COVID Vaccines The Principles and Guidelines refer to the principle of solidarity as applying individually and collectively to both state and non-state actors (see article 2). For example, in Article 2.2, For example, in Article 2.2, Moreover, Article 2.4 Article 25.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

By Ana Santos Rutschman What can the New York City Marathon experience teach those reflecting on ways to increase equity in the transnational allocation of scarce vaccine doses? Vaccines are pharmaceutical products, a critical tool in public and global health. Quite a lot, it turns out.

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Health Populi

MAY 11, 2021

who have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot have a welcoming side-effect: peace of mind and mental health, according to a survey conducted by Walgreens in April 2021. Most people in the U.S. Consumers can donate rides to fellow patients via the Uber app, as Spike talks about here.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 24, 2022

At the research and development (R&D) stage, government funders can bind producers to equity goals through targeted contractual provisions, as we explain in a recently-published Nature Biotechnology article. Consider, for instance, the case of COVID-19 vaccines. We summarize our proposals in the following sections.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The following is a guest article by Lori Jones, Chief Revenue Officer and President, Provider Market at Olive. Healthcare technologists are our next line of defense against COVID-19. Without them, the vaccine rollout will take years.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 22, 2021

The following is a guest article by Eric Paternoster, CEO of Infosys Public Services. They must equitably distribute and safely administer enough COVID-19 vaccines to immunize at least 70% of the population to achieve herd immunity and enable the country to return to some semblance of […].

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OSHA Law Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has withdrawn its enforcement of the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring most employers to mandate COVID-19 vaccines or tests for employees. To read this article in its entirety, please click here.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 6, 2022

Note: This article has been revised to include information on the Group 2 states as of January 18, 2022. Staff for whom COVID-19 vaccination must be temporarily delayed. For temporary delays, facilities should track when the identified staff can safely resume their vaccination.

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OSHA Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

If President Joe Biden’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) vaccine or testing mandate for employers goes forward, nearly half the states have the option of going their own way. To read this article in its entirety, please click here.

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Medisys Compliance

APRIL 20, 2022

In month of April 2022, CMS also announced couple of important billing update for COVID-19 tests and booster dose. We shared billing update for free COVID-19 tests and second free booster dose in detail in this article. Medicare to Cover Over-the-Counter COVID-19 Tests.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

This month’s article looks at COVID enforcements.?? ?. The program was specifically designed to vaccinate long-term care facility residents and staff when doses of COVID-19 vaccine became available. Don’t miss the next enforcement action article from C.J. MorseLife agreed to pay $1.75

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Written by: AIHC Blogger This article is to communicate information from the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) regarding the coding of COVID-19 claims for uninsured patients. Encounter for screening for COVID-19, asymptomatic Z20.822 Contact with and (suspected) exposure to COVID-19/ SARS-CoV-2 Z86.16

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Med Law Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued an interim final rule requiring COVID-19 vaccinations for workers in most institutional care settings. Also, all eligible workers must be fully vaccinated by January 4, 2022. A copy of the CMS press release can be found at [link].

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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. The CMS cases came before the Court after the Fifth Circuit and the Eight Circuit upheld district court decisions blocking implementation of the CMS vaccine mandate. Special thanks to J.D.

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Hall Render

APRIL 5, 2022

In light of the US Supreme Court’s invalidation of OSHA’s vaccination-or-testing requirement earlier this year, OSHA is not currently considering requiring mandatory vaccination for employees covered by this final rule. OSHA indicated that it might limit paid vaccine leave requirements to employers not covered by the CMS mandate.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 31, 2022

i), the regulation that details the requirements related to COVID-19 vaccination of facility staff. i) has multiple elements that call for skilled nursing facilities to develop and implement policies and procedures that will ensure all staff are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Enforcement.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

The original proposal tabled by India and South Africa in 2020 as IP/C/W/669 would have waived 40 articles of the WTO Trade Related Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights, known as the TRIPS. In short, the compromise only waives a single 20-word paragraph in one article: the one dealing with exports under a non-voluntary authorization.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

COVID SNF Notification Requirements. Hall Render blog posts and articles are intended for informational purposes only. More information about Hall Render’s Post-Acute and Long-Term Care services can be found here.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Taking the example of school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, this would require balancing immediate public health concerns, (i.e., In practical terms, this will mean that, inter alia , PPRR measures limiting or derogating against human rights (pursuant to Principles 16.1, Similarly, Principle 6.1

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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]. Specific to the COVID-19 vaccine, children under age 18 in most jurisdictions will require parental consent. [8].

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: States must work individually and collectively to ensure a social and international order where human rights can be enjoyed by everyone. The Principles aptly characterize solidarity by paraphrasing, in Principle 2.1,

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The following is a guest article by Mike Noshay, MSE, Founder and Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at Verinovum. As 2020 comes to a close, healthcare industry leaders are looking ahead to 2021 with excitement and anticipation.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 22, 2022

The following is a guest article by Ed Macosky, Chief Innovation Officer at Boomi, the intelligent connectivity and automation leader. The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of being prepared for the worst case scenario.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The following is a guest article by John Janas, MD, Medical Director at Twistle. The COVID-19 pandemic has successfully accelerated the availability of digital health tools, while simultaneously exposing opportunity for improvement in their ability to activate patients in their care.

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Health Populi

MARCH 25, 2021

The Wall Street Journal featured the grocery chain Kroger in an article yesterday titled, COVID-19 Vaccinations, Tests Give Boost to Kroger’s Health Ambitions. With 2,250 pharmacies and 220 clinics largely in the Midwest and the southern U.S.,

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Better still would be for both these instruments to include separate articles that directly address human rights, incorporating and stating states’ express commitment to the Principles – though a human rights article included in the pandemic treaty’s initial draft was since removed.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 31, 2022

Nursing homes face possible citations, civil monetary penalties, denial of payments and—as a final measure—termination of participation from the Medicare and Medicaid programs by the CMS as they embark on complying with the new CMS COVID-19 vaccine requirements for their staff. Staff Interviews.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 15, 2024

High-profile examples – like Pfizer utilizing an AI tool to speed up clinical trials of the COVID-19 vaccine – may naturally help build public trust in this kind of AI-powered innovation, but there is still more work to be done to build confidence that AI can safely innovate, diagnose, and treat.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 19, 2022

The following is a guest article by Joel Diamond, MD/FAAFP, Primary Care Physician and Chief Medical Officer for 2bPrecise and Bryon Cipriani, Executive Vice President for AccessDx Laboratory.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The following is a guest article by Jay Nakashima, President at eHealth Exchange An FDA project aims to make it as easy as possible for clinicians to report adverse drug events and share important clinical data with public health agencies to investigate the event.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. Jay Nakashima at eHealth Exchange detailed how California’s Cedars-Sinai used FHIR to send adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines to the FDA – a process that replaced manual data entry and faxing.

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