Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].

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Bill of Health

JUNE 22, 2022

Has the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines been impacted by patent rights? Tran , senior associate at Milbank LA, argue that the story is much more complicated — making vaccines involves much more than waiving patents, they explain. COVID vaccines are not easy to manufacture. What is a patent?

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 13, 2022

Two California brothers were both sentenced to 36 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to misdemeanor conspiracy to steal or convert government property charges stemming from the theft of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards.

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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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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Some research has concluded darker skinned patients who might need hospitalisation are at greater risk of inaccurate results from oximeters due to a tendency to present higher levels of oxygen in their blood. It will also examine MRI scanners, which are not recommended for use for pregnant or breastfeeding women. ON THE RECORD.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 12, 2022

Food and Drug Administration is planning to develop updated versions of booster vaccines that are specifically targeted to protect against Omnicron and its variants. Furthermore, the FDA is encouraging COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers to update their booster shots to protect against BA.4 Second COVID-19 Booster.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This language, sadly absent from the WTO negotiations on a potential patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, will provide a new accountability against wealthy nations seeking to privilege business at the expense of access to medicines.

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Health Law Pulse

JANUARY 21, 2022

Eventually, the United States began to reopen and serious discussion about the development of a COVID-19 vaccine began to take place as infection and death rates continued to rise, with the United States surpassing 200,000 fatalities in September 2020.

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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. Hartlage will present alongside CGI Global's Renee Gregor at HIMSS22 this month about lessons learned from the rollout.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

And this threat is unlikely to abate in the new year, with forecasts predicting telehealth will continue to present security challenges (along with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines ). ON THE RECORD. "Executives need to be willing to invest fully in cybersecurity throughout the organization.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

As the slower-than-expected COVID-19 vaccine rollout continues around the United States, experts have noted the importance of the "last mile" – getting dosages into the arms of patients. "We took a customer live in four days last week specifically because of the COVID vaccine," de Zwirek said.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 7, 2021

"Early on, when vaccine supply was limited, Sanford Health followed state eligibility guidelines and then stratified the list based on patient risk factors, prioritizing the highest-risk patients and inviting them to be among the first to schedule COVID-19 vaccination appointments." " Clark Averill, St.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 28, 2021

Medication nonadherence presents a significant issue for the health industry and patients. Outcomes also recently added MyScheduling, which enables patients to schedule and change appointments – including COVID-19 vaccine – at their local pharmacy, and could significantly reduce administrative tasks for pharmacies.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The goal of such a scheme would be to create a framework that is capacious enough to accommodate the competing (often, antagonistic) interests that recurringly emerge when there is concurrent transnational demand for scarce vaccine doses — those that are presently addressed through contract bilateralism.

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 22, 2022

5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. 5 variant has accounted for over 50% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, with BA.4 Researchers claim that these variants are noticeably less sensitive to the antibiotic components of current COVID-19 vaccines than other omicron variants.

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American Medical Compliance

JULY 22, 2022

5 COVID-19 variants are not presenting drastically different symptoms. 5 variant has accounted for over 50% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, with BA.4 Researchers claim that these variants are noticeably less sensitive to the antibiotic components of current COVID-19 vaccines than other omicron variants.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

There are many reasons, but a few examples will suffice for the present context. Ultimately, they address the first two major shortcomings of the Siracusa Principles and present some potential for assisting in responding to the accountability problem. The HR Principles build on the Siracusa Principles.

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Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2021

On the pharma supply side, mRNA vaccines will dominate the market, proving more effective than others at stemming a further outbreak. With growing global supply and competition, we can expect prices for COVID-19 vaccines to fall, anticipating additional volumes from Sinopharm, Moderna, Sinovac, Gamaleya Institute, among others.

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American Medical Compliance

AUGUST 18, 2022

When one is suffering from COVID-like symptoms and receives a negative rapid test result, the FDA recommends retesting within 48 hours. If that second rapid test comes back negative but the symptoms are still present, then a PCR test is recommended. The FDA highly encourages repeat testing with at home COVID-19 tests.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The two Assembly reports on “Lessons for the future from an effective and rights-based response to Covid-19” and “Public health emergency: the need for a holistic approach to multilateralism and health care” provide states with policy recommendations in this regard.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

"We have the tools in place to address today's needs and meet the initial surge of anything that presents itself going forward," Carr added. Bellevue also uses Alertus notifications to keep employees apprised of necessary information – which, most recently, it used to flag COVID-19 vaccine availability.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Like the Open COVID Pledge before it, Moderna’s pledge expressly states that it is valid only “ while the pandemic continues. government purchased millions of doses of Moderna’s mRNA vaccine, along with large quantities of vaccines manufactured by Pfizer. Pfizer made such a vaccine. Updating” the Pledge.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 6, 2023

One recent story was a breach of data at an Illinois health center that resulted in the exposure of COVID-19 vaccination status of over 700 people. The solutions will also need to clean and validate that data, making it presentable in ways that are intuitive for the end user.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The State’s rationale was that social gatherings presented a particular risk because people had longer interactions, particularly face-to-face conversations, and were not subject to state mandates regarding masking and social distancing. Presently, among the fifty U.S.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 18, 2021

The world has been in urgent need of COVID-19 vaccines, treatments, and diagnostic tools. The rapid adoption of decentralized and hybrid clinical study design spurred by the pandemic will present new regulatory challenges for the foreseeable future. Ronan Brown, SVP and Head of Integrated Global Compliance, IQVIA.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2023

They present an opportunity for robust discussions from a diverse array of perspectives, breathing life into the notion of “rights-based approaches to public health emergencies.” Indeed they have already found their way in a resolution of the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. The bar chart here was drawn on the data the CDC presented in June 2020 getting granular on coronavirus cases by age and race.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The BroadReach team in South Africa has had the fortune of working in collaboration with USAID and the South Africa Department of Health to aid in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccination to clinics within rural communities, where vaccination levels were 25% below the national average.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. I knew this would not happen. Just as there was no assurance of masking or social distancing in prisons, there was no guarantee of follow-up.

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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.

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C&M Health Law

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Protecting patients’ privacy Patient privacy and data security was of top priority to the Senators present. Senator Tina Smith (D-MN) asked Dr. Inglesby about the use of AI in Covid-19 vaccine development and about the lessons learned from using AI to prevent biosecurity risks.

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Healthcare Law Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The numbers in the last three categories highlighted in the last paragraph more closely align with the yearly numbers presented for fiscal years 2019 and 2020, which might indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic prevented or delayed OIG representatives from handing out penalties.

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New Jersey Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Health care and high-risk congregate settings must retain a policy that requires its workers to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or complete COVID-19 testing one to two times per week. The order addresses what documents may be presented to show proof of vaccination. See Exec.

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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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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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