Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool. HIMSS22 Coverage.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure public health by mandating vaccines. Presently, among the fifty U.S. In 2021, the Supreme Court articulated in Tandon v.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Fielding calls from heads of state, they decided what vaccine deliveries to prioritize , shaping which countries could protect lives and livelihoods. The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — Private decisions did not match public health need.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 1, 2022

Over the past two years, the Supreme Court has shown unprecedented hostility to efforts by both state and federal government to stop the spread of what every day turns out to be an even more deadly pandemic. These decisions are devastating, and likely signal a continued attack on government authority , but they are not a reason to give up.

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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.” By Jorge L. Updating” the Pledge.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Partnerships and innovation are the only ways Africa can achieve superior health outcome results with markedly fewer resources. Partnerships with NGOs, FBOs, the private sector and its local communities can provide an immediate capacity boost that the country’s government lacks. Governments cannot do this alone.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Incarcerated people were also two and a half times more likely to die from COVID-19, according to a recent study published in JAMA. We know that incarcerated patients often present at younger ages with more advanced stages of disease when seen by external health care providers. These voluntary standards, within the U.S.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Mandl also urged developers to design algorithms focused on improving administrative burdens and physician-patient relationships while maintaining safety He also encouraged Congress to create and implement legal and ethical safeguards to protect health care workers from liability.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. I knew this would not happen.

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Provider Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

This post will delve into the key highlights, focus areas, and accomplishments presented in the semiannual report, shedding light on the OIG’s crucial role in safeguarding the integrity of federal healthcare programs and addressing emerging challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

The proposed compromise would allow for “the use of patented subject matter required for the production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines without the consent of the right holder to the extent necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 of the Agreement, as clarified and waived.”

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Bill of Health

MARCH 27, 2023

Bard The White House is preparing to shut down their COVID Task Force this May, in conjunction with ending the public health emergency — the latest in a series of astounding and shortsighted decisions that put individual Americans at as great a risk from serious harm as a result of catching COVID-19 as at any stage in the pandemic.

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SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The EU continues to be the leading provider of vaccines around the world.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll, the year 2020 ushered in declarations of a National Emergency (“NE”) and a Public Health Emergency (“PHE”). The HFWA also requires employers to provide up to 80 hours of paid supplemental sick leave when a PHE is declared by either the state or federal government.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 18, 2022

Earlier this week, the agency faced criticism from the public health community that its back-to-school COVID guidance pares back already weak protections against the spread of disease by dropping its recommendations for asymptomatic screening and quarantine after exposure. This is sad. CDC can do its job better.

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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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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. Colorado’s COVID cases keep rising. Now Durango’s public health agency is sounding the alarm. Oscar Health To Exit Colorado, Arkansas. HHS appeal of No Surprises Act on hold.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

40% of Nursing Home Residents Haven’t Received COVID-19 Boosters, Analysis Finds. AI in Healthcare Presents Need for Security, Privacy Standards. Biden extends COVID-19 national emergency. Contract Nurse Agencies Are Making Big Money in the Age of COVID-19. 20 to Know: Keeping KC Healthy.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

JULY 22, 2022

509(a), Governor Murphy issued an Executive Order updating and clarifying timeframes for requiring covered workers at health care facilities and high-risk congregate settings to be up-to-date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, including having received a booster shot. On April 4, 2022, at 54 N.J.R. See Executive Order No.

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

Moderna wants the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6. Sensitive health data of 50 million Americans hacked or breached last year: analysis. Private equity’s pandemic-era health care push. Pandemic puts local health care to the ultimate test. County’s public health system.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The CDC has stopped printing them Telehealth Visits Decline 46%, But Telebehavioral Healthcare Still High URAC to offer health equity accreditation Walgreens CIO is latest to leave in company’s C-suite shakeup AI is creating a complex landscape for healthcare executives ALABAMA Alabama hospital to remain on Cerner after sale Alabama gets $3.6M

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Hall Render

MARCH 3, 2023

million for youth mental health care KENTUCKY Pike County nursing home officials release statement following loss of Medicare agreement Three Humana executives drop $11.2M

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

Their COVID War The “ COVID Crisis Group ” is an establishment group of businesspeople and government officials plus some subject matter experts. Many, like their director, Philip Zelikow, have held high government positions and been lawyers, CEOs, or higher-managers for business. 209), and the like.

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Hall Render

DECEMBER 8, 2023

health care Skilled nursing providers embrace bill nixing staff mandate, despite uncertain fate US News to begin rating ASCs ALABAMA Birmingham business lands pharmacy contract with Louisiana hospital Madison Co. CT presents draft settlement in YNHH-Prospect hospitals sale Mandell-Braunstein family gifts $2.5M NATIONAL 8.5M

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Hall Render

APRIL 29, 2022

grant funds statewide center for health equity at UF Health. Kemp creates panel to address health-care workforce shortage in Georgia. Kisners to present $1M to Children’s Hospital of Georgia. Here’s what Georgia is doing about the health care worker shortage. State renews COVID-19 public health orders.

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Health Law RX

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Employees who do not report to a workplace where other individuals, such as coworkers or customers, are present are exempted from coverage – an exemption which could lead employers to reevaluate whether to continue remote working practices. It is the employer’s responsibility to determine the vaccination status of each employee.

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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

We should resist the temptation to respond to death and injury by looking for ways to say the present level of death is better than some counterfactual. Unless COVID deaths are genuinely at zero, no level of death is actually good news, it’s just the absence of even worse news. We have had no such politicking in the pandemic.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2022

Health Equity is a complex challenge with multiple root causes and contributing factors making it difficult to know where to start. For many government and healthcare organizations, mapping health equity using a Geography Information System (GIS) was the best place to start. Age (Young vs Old). Encouraging Signs.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. The entire pandemic response hinged on vaccination as a silver bullet.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Front and center will be homelessness and health care, top priorities for voters — and issues that have largely defined the governors’ policies and leadership styles. From abortion to covid-19 vaccines, Newsom and DeSantis could not be further apart. California bans short-term health plans.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 21, 2022

The present pandemic nightmare is the most recent and an especially acute manifestation of capitalist society’s tendency to kill many, regularly, a tendency that Friedrich Engels called “social murder.” Enough businesses must make enough money or serious social consequences follow — for them, their employees, and for government.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2023

By María Natalia Echegoyemberry and Francisco Verbic This article looks at the COVID-19 pandemic response in Argentina, with a particular focus on the judicial control of public health policies. There, too, single judges decided on important social and health issues. SB/LC/JGI/VC 14056/2022).

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.

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Drug & Device Law

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Executive Health Resources, Inc. , 2023) (federal government may unilaterally obtain dismissal of FCA claims, and calling the constitutionality of the FCA’s private enforcement mechanism into question) ( here ); Quishenberry v. The case was governed by North Carolina substantive law, and NC rejects strict liability altogether.

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