Health Law Pulse

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As of December 25, 2021, the CDC reported the Omicron variant represents almost 60% of the reported cases of COVID-19 as compared to the Delta variant’s roughly 40% of cases. Today alone, the US reported a record of 282,000 new diagnosed cases.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 24, 2022

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is failing parents by preventing off-label use of our existing COVID-19 vaccines in the under-five set. So far the story has focused on disappointing efficacy results and delays in studies from Pfizer and Moderna. Or Congress could direct the CDC to modify this agreement.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care. health care.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 8, 2022

Scientists have been apprehensive about a monkeypox outbreak for over a decade, and this concern is becoming relevant as more and more cases are reported worldwide. In 2008, a research study stated that if unvaccinated populations were to become exposed to monkeypox, then an epidemic could occur. What is Monkeypox? Is Monkeypox Deadly?

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2023

If that sounds low, it’s because it is; multiple studies have found that enterprises spend anywhere from 10% to 20% of their IT budgets on security on average. As is the case in many areas of life, education is a major key in creating a solid foundation for success. Healthcare systems in the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 31, 2023

are shuttering their labor, delivery, and maternity wards , in many cases closing altogether. According to the CDC , 80 percent of maternal deaths are preventable. As winter storms sweep the country and complicate transportation, healthcare access becomes a front-and-center issue. Rural hospitals across the U.S.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 20, 2023

According to a study in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society , non-fatal falls cost an estimated $50 billion in medical expenses, while fatal falls account for an estimated $754 million. According to the Journal of the American Geriatric Society study, a significant percentage of healthcare expenditures among seniors in the U.S.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The CDC is reviewing its mask guidance and will decide whether to relax the guidance based on the number of Covid hospitalizations. In the past, the CDC looked at the number of new Covid cases. A new study compared unreimbursed Medicaid costs of non-profit and for-profit hospitals. and SNF services 1.9%

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 28, 2023

" ADVICE FOR OTHERS Annually, at least three million Americans will experience a heart attack, heart failure or undergo a cardiac procedure, according to the CDC. "Studies show that rural populations, women and minorities all are less likely to participate in cardiac rehab due to access challenges. and cases are only rising.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2023

There is another data point in the study on women’s health and prescriptions — for ADHD drugs. Avoiding vaccinations for MMR, too, can risk a child’s health and well-being: the CDC notes that there were over 1,200 cases of measles in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 27, 2022

For some other staggering costs, a RAND study estimated that the United States suffers economic losses between $280 billion (1.56% of GDP) and $411 billion (2.28% of GDP) per year due to insufficient sleep. Some believe that sleep deprivation is tied to creativity , but that’s not necessarily the case.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. The study’s authors concluded that permanent adoption of these telehealth services is worth consideration. Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features.

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HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

1 Recently, the CDC announced that 84% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. When studying a candidate drug or therapy for a condition that impacts only some pregnancies, the sample sizes required to enroll participants become impossibly large, and studies become infeasible. PMID: 30870274. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand.

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Health Populi

MAY 25, 2021

The first chart from the CDC illustrates that dramatic growth in the use of telehealth ratcheting up since the first case of COVID-19 was diagnosed in the U.S. To help us think this through, just in time, the AMA has published a report on the Return on Health: Moving Beyond Dollars and Cents in Realizing the Value of Virtual Care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 22, 2021

COVID-19 has cut lives short relative to their life expectancy, calculated in an analysis by the Pew Research Center based on CDC data from 2019 and 2020, coupled with additional statistics on life expectancy by age and gender. ” In this case, 5.5 The Institute for Family Studies has been thinking about this phenomenon.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 17, 2022

A full 24% of the workforce is 55 or older , according to the CDC, and hypertension affects almost half of that population. Various studies reported increases in post-traumatic stress disorder, depressive disorders, delirium, somatic symptoms, panic disorder, psychosis, harmful substance use, despair, self-harm and even suicide.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. News and Studies. As a result, 95% of buyers who offer virtual care want to expand but need a roadmap to help them determine their next steps.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 18, 2023

At the institutions served by ClosedLoop, case managers or care managers usually reach out to patients by phone. The CDC has assembled a directory of state and local data sets about SDoH. Rutledge cited a study (Basu S, Berkowitz SA, Davis C, Drake C, Phillips RL, Landon BE. JAMA Intern Med. 2023;183(8):762–774.

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

However, if a doctor is not working in an academic setting, reading every new paper, and recruiting patients for new studies, how can they be expected to keep up with the latest treatments and approaches to specific cancers? The CDC estimates that the number of cancer cases will increase by 49% , from 1.5 million in 2050.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

CDC data shows that about 10% of people in the U.S. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the CDC, told Rachel Maddow on 8 March, “We know that after mass travel, after vaccinations, after holidays, we tend to see a surge in cases.”. More than one in three people know someone who died from COVID-19.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 26, 2022

The virus continues to produce new variants of greater or lesser transmissibility and lethality; for now, comparatively small numbers of people continue to die of the virus daily and weekly; and the CDC continues to recommend that the elderly and immunocompromised take every precaution. million unfilled jobs.”.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 31, 2018

This has prevented them from being embraced and adopted for patients’ use by the medical profession, which has seen a plethora of patients wear activity trackers generating data that has been questioned in peer-reviewed studies. according to the CDC. Omron seeks to jump that hurdle through FDA clearance.

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Hall Render

MAY 13, 2022

Alabama sees bump in COVID-19 cases, state health department monitoring. Colorado’s COVID cases keep rising. These Are the Safest Hospitals in NY, NJ and CT: Study. DC Health Confirms It Didn’t Submit COVID Data to CDC for 11 Days. COVID-19 case rates rise in DC region. Alaska ASC building sells for $23M.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Gil Bashe, Managing Partner Global Health at Finn Partners, organized a diverse group of industry stakeholders including me to discuss the implications of this timely and impactful study. In the Civis Analytics study, one-in-four Black Americans (26%) was uninsured by September 2020, up from 17% in February.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

Either cases actually disappear, as with seasonal influenza , or they are dramatically reduced through a vaccine that prevents further transmission, as happened with measles and polio. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to minimize the threat and sabotage efforts to combat it. Neither event has happened here.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

healthcare network brings back staff mask mandate amid ‘dramatic increase’ in COVID cases MICHIGAN $1.35M awarded to 2 senior living facilities coming to Kalamazoo Children’s Healing Center plans new $8.5M ALABAMA American Family Care opens new health care center in Northeast Birmingham doctors secure $13.9M

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

hospital sees less severe cases Georgia Supreme Court vacates judgement in case with Northside Hospital, NGMC Poor Health: How Is Georgia Addressing The State’s Mental Health Woes? And lawmakers are trying to help.

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Hall Render

MAY 20, 2022

Mayo, CDC Leaders: Policy, Coalitions Key Barriers to Data Modernization. Alaska reports more new COVID-19 cases among visitors as tourist season gets underway. 2 variant pushing a spike in COVID-19 cases in Alaska. Alaska has the fastest rising rate of overdose deaths in the country, CDC says. Arkansas Gets $3.9M

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Hall Render

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

CVS Health, Walgreens each to settle all opioid cases for $5B. Arizona is reporting RSV case counts 10 times higher than average right now. Connecticut children’s hospitals seeing record number of RSV cases; Yale bringing in extra medical staff. Illinois COVID Metrics Show Slight Decrease in Cases, Vaccinations in Recent Days.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Charlie Clarke, SVP of Technology at hc1 According to the CDC, 70% of today’s medical decisions depend on laboratory test results so time is of the essence when it comes to reaching out to providers when issues arise with samples or when critical results need to be communicated.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2020

Starting this week, the health system will expand the scope of the care services it delivers, guided by CDC recommendation for extensive safety precautions. Case in point: Atrium had embraced telehealth and virtual care for many years now. "We will forever have changed as a result of COVID-19. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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Hall Render

JUNE 10, 2022

COVID-19 rising in Alabama, experts believe cases are higher than reported. Alaska’s COVID-19 data shows 25% rise in cases reported to state since last week. Board that monitors Arizona’s ‘guilty except insane’ cases has too many vacancies to function. DC Health studying first potential case of monkeypox.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Covid cases remain low in Alaska. Arizona weekly COVID-19 update adds 6,119 cases, 82 deaths. Reported monkeypox cases trending down in Colorado. DC hospital must face executive’s retaliation case. Hawaii Health Department reports 2 more monkeypox cases for total of 30. Mark Cuban-backed D.C.

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Health Populi

MAY 1, 2018

This isn’t just a European population health challenge: 90% of Americans don’t get enough fresh fruit and vegetables, according to a CDC report published in November 2017. File this in your best-in-class healthcare marketing case studies. I love this concept Philips’ ad agency adopted in so many ways.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Centers for Disease Control (CDC) believes. In some cases, things that looked suspicious were not HAIs. So the hospital management didn’t have to close beds, conserving that opportunity cost in those cases. One in 25 patients in U.S. hospitals still contracts an HAI, the Group’s recent report on HAIs attested.

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Hall Render

APRIL 22, 2022

Supreme Court tosses Medicaid work requirement cases. Alabama health officials continue to monitor adenovirus cases. UAMS Study Finds Marshallese in U.S. Colorado’s COVID cases rise for a fourth week as BA.2 DC Health Officials Watching Rise in COVID Cases, But Hospitalizations Stay Low. Then it deleted deaths.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Policies like paid sick leave are key tools to prevent another “winter of death” and disruption, finds our recent study of U.S. Since the start of the pandemic, our team has found large neighborhood-level disparities in COVID-19 testing, positivity, cases, and mortality. cities’ sick leave and vaccination data.

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