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OSHA moves ahead with permanent COVID-19 standards for health workers

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The submission for permanent COVID-19 safety standards comes after temporary pandemic requirements for medical facilities were withdrawn last December.

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Could Amtrak’s Quiet Car Be a Model for COVID-19 Travel Policies?

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this same approach could be taken in relation to masking. A recent study compared COVID-19 spread in Boston-area school districts that dropped mask mandates earlier this year (the majority), with the two much less-resourced school districts that maintained mandates.

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COVID-19, Patents, and Trade Secrets

Bill of Health

JUNE 22, 2022

Has the worldwide distribution of COVID-19 vaccines been impacted by patent rights? It assumes that once you waive all the COVID patents, everyone all of the sudden starts getting vaccinated quicker and safer, but that’s just not the case. What other IP protections do COVID vaccine manufacturers use? What is a patent?

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Patient messages via Epic increased during COVID-19, raising burnout concerns

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 15, 2021

A research letter published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that physicians saw a "small but sustained" increase in patient message volume during the first 15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the message increase did not displace patient calls. ON THE RECORD.

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Nurses union fights in court for permanent COVID-19 protection rule

Healthcare Dive

APRIL 5, 2022

National Nurses United argued before a federal appeals court on Monday that an existing temporary emergency standard isn't enough to protect healthcare workers from the ongoing threat of COVID-19.

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Telehealth visits dropped in March amid sunny COVID-19 outlook, new report finds

Healthcare Dive

JUNE 3, 2022

The data provides a snapshot of early 2022 when COVID-19 infections dropped and patients seemed more willing to return to the doctor's office.

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DEA and HHS extend virtual prescribing for controlled substances through 2025

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Drug Enforcement Agency and Health and Human Services announced the Third Temporary Extension of COVID-19 Telemedicine Flexibilities for Prescription of Controlled Medications, preventing some patients from losing access to their telehealth-prescribed medications.

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What Happened to the COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver?

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In June 2022, after almost two years of debate over a potential COVID-19 vaccine patent waiver, the World Trade Organization adopted the Ministerial Decision on the TRIPS Agreement (“WTO Decision”), which provided for a partial waiver of intellectual property rights. The post What Happened to the COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver?

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'Appropriate' transition period for COVID-19 test EUAs when public health emergency ends

Healthcare Dive

APRIL 8, 2022

The FDA is planning to give holders of EUAs for COVID-19 diagnostics and other devices 180 days notice of its intent to end their authorizations, in anticipation of U.S. public health emergency declarations stopping.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

Bill of Health

JANUARY 12, 2023

Last month, the patent battle between COVID-19 mRNA vaccine manufacturers continued with BioNTech/Pfizer filing a strong defense and counter-claim to Moderna’s allegations of patent infringement. government committed more than one billion dollars to Moderna for development of its COVID-19 vaccines. By Aparajita Lath.

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Physicians are experiencing delayed COVID-19 burnout

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Physician burnout has risen during the most recent phase of the pandemic, resulting in exacerbated retention challenges among healthcare workers, an MGMA survey and other recent reports have found.

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COVID-19 telehealth diagnoses fell in August

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There was no change in telehealth use in the Midwest and Northeast in August, but utilization rose 4.7% in the South and fell 1.4% in the West.

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Building a patient management program in the wake of COVID-19

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Overall, building a patient management program – most notably in the wake of COVID-19 – is critical. However, adding more technology to fix the woes of other technology often can require many additional resources and can become overwhelming.

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Telehealth visits rose in May, mirroring COVID-19 diagnoses

Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 9, 2022

Patients made greater use of virtual care visits for a second straight month during an upturn in coronavirus cases.

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COVID-19 changed consumers' interaction with healthcare

Healthcare It News

JUNE 6, 2022

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Nonprofit providers’ operating margins fall as more challenges loom

Healthcare Dive

MAY 22, 2025

Nonprofits have struggled to recover since the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, providers are grappling once more with turbulent macroeconomic conditions.

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COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives, study calculates

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The vaccines also reduced infections and hospitalizations, which freed up hospital resources, researchers at the Commonwealth Fund and Yale School of Public Health concluded.

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COVID-19 fell from top telehealth diagnoses in September

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Telehealth use has remained steady this year and did not change nationally from August to September, accounting for 5.4% of all medical claims, according to Fair Health.

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AstraZeneca withdraws COVID-19 vaccine, citing declining demand

Healthcare Dive

MAY 8, 2024

The move ends a turbulent saga for AstraZeneca, which successfully developed a coronavirus shot but struggled to sell it amid competition and the emergence of rare but serious side effects.

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‘Bravo Congress’: Telehealth groups cheer omnibus extension of COVID-19 flexibilities

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Still, the American Telemedicine Association and other virtual care lobbies said there was more to do to enshrine telehealth access into American law.

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Hospitals bet big on venture capital amid COVID-19 revenue flux

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 30, 2022

Hospitals are increasingly acting as venture capitalists, ratcheting up investments in companies with products they can use and scale, according to a data analysis of hospital VC arms conducted by Healthcare Dive.

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Omicron sent COVID-19 back into top telehealth claims in November

Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Telehealth use rose in every census region in November as patients again avoided medical settings and some became infected with the newest coronavirus variant, according to data from Fair Health.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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. As a result, it publicly promised that “ while the pandemic continues, Moderna will not enforce our COVID-19 related patents against those making vaccines intended to combat the pandemic.”

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Hospitals improve on infection control after COVID-19 spike: Leapfrog

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, patient experience scores declined again, which could be the result of ongoing labor shortages, according to Leapfrog Group CEO Leah Binder.

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DEA temporarily extends COVID-19 telehealth prescribing flexibility for controlled substances

Healthcare Dive

MAY 4, 2023

The agency said on Wednesday that it needs additional time to parse through the 38,000 public comments it received in response to a proposal to reintroduce stricter limits around telehealth prescribing.

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How AI and machine learning can predict illness and boost health equity

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

seeks to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, many who survive the initial illness suffer debilitating long-term health impacts, especially those with underlying health conditions. The COVID-19 Research Database features a wide array of data about most of the U.S. Even as the U.S.

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French researchers reveal chatbot skills to override vaccine hesitancy

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In the control group, which received only brief information about the COVID-19 vaccination, there were no comparable results in terms of general views and willingness to vaccinate. per cent), very few people have received the double COVID-19 vaccine dose. THE LARGER TREND. per cent), Ireland (76.2 In Slovakia (45.7

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VA seeks to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areas

Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

With the COVID-19 crisis, VA video-to-home telehealth encounters surged 3,147% from 294,847 encounters in fiscal 2019 to 9,575,958 in fiscal 2021. The VA Telehealth Emergency Management Team established in response to Hurricanes Harvey and Maria in 2017 launched the Anywhere to Anywhere VA Healthcare program.

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18M projected to lose Medicaid coverage at end of COVID-19 emergency

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Many people who are currently enrolled in Medicaid will transition to other coverage, but 3.8 million people will completely lose insurance, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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COVID-19 vaccine prices are going up. It shouldn’t be our focus.

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 10, 2023

Vaccinating as many people as possible to reduce the spread of respiratory illness that can be especially life-threatening for the youngest and oldest Americans is key, argues vaccine law professor Richard Hughes IV.

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'On high alert': Hospitals wary of cyber threats from Russia-Ukraine conflict

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 18, 2022

Cybersecurity has always been chronically underfunded in hospitals, even before COVID-19 swallowed up more resources. Now, this major international threat is creating a "perfect storm," one cybersecurity expert said.

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13 hospitals receive funding as special pathogen care hubs

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The healthcare facilities will lead regional responses against pathogens such as COVID-19, Ebola and monkeypox.

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Healthcare bankruptcies are rising. Here are five major filings so far in 2023.

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Bankruptcies have spiked this year as federal COVID-19 funding lapsed and heightened interest rates, regulatory changes and labor shortages squeezed the sector.

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States curb CON laws to boost bed capacity

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 3, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and population growth have led many states to scale back or eliminate Certificate of Need laws, which require providers to get regulatory approval before expanding or adding healthcare facilities.

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Fair Health finds 76% drop in telehealth use from 2020 to 2021

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 30, 2023

Although telehealth use declined overall compared to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual visits still comprised the highest percentage of medical claim lines in 2021.

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Millions of people counting on Congress to protect telehealth access

Healthcare Dive

MAY 26, 2022

Patients in communities across the nation who have come to rely on telehealth have been left waiting and wondering if they will be able to receive the virtual care they need once the COVID-19 public health emergency has ended.

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Ascension Michigan settles multi-year dispute about employee vaccination policy

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

The health system will offer up to five weeks of back pay to staff that were denied religious exemptions for COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

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National health spending reached $4.3 trillion in 2021

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Increases in healthcare utilization and insurance coverage were offset by lower government spending on COVID-19, according to new CMS data.

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Watchdog faults FDA for rushing COVID tests to market by easing emergency use rules

Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The HHS Office of Inspector General found that by loosening emergency use authorization requirements to bring COVID-19 tests to market faster, the agency allowed inaccurate tests to be distributed.

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State Medicaid spending fell below pre-pandemic levels during continuous enrollment

Healthcare Dive

JUNE 21, 2023

An analysis by KFF found state spending on Medicaid fell during the COVID-19 pandemic even as enrollment soared. But spending will likely increase as the federal government begins to pare back its increased contribution.

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For most of COVID-19 pandemic, major for-profit hospitals’ operating margins exceeded years prior

Healthcare Dive

DECEMBER 5, 2022

HCA and Tenet had operating margins of at least 10% and at least 5%, respectively, in nine out of 11 quarters, according to a report out Monday from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

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Amwell partners with electronics giant LG to develop digital health tools

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 10, 2022

The new partnership may be a bid to rejuvenate Amwell's hospital revenue, which saw tepid growth last year as major health systems have delayed new hardware deployments during COVID-19.

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US health spending to surpass $7T by 2031, CMS actuaries say

Healthcare Dive

JUNE 15, 2023

The unwinding of the COVID-19 public health emergency and recent legislation are expected to influence health spending across the country’s major payers over the next decade.

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Travel nurse pay remains high as hospitals fill gaps from staff departures

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Demand for contract labor is now being driven by core staff vacancies, rather than high volumes of COVID-19 patients.

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Patient messages via Epic increased during COVID-19, raising burnout concerns

Nurses union fights in court for permanent COVID-19 protection rule

Telehealth visits dropped in March amid sunny COVID-19 outlook, new report finds

DEA and HHS extend virtual prescribing for controlled substances through 2025

What Happened to the COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Waiver?

'Appropriate' transition period for COVID-19 test EUAs when public health emergency ends

COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

Physicians are experiencing delayed COVID-19 burnout

COVID-19 telehealth diagnoses fell in August

Building a patient management program in the wake of COVID-19

Telehealth visits rose in May, mirroring COVID-19 diagnoses

COVID-19 changed consumers' interaction with healthcare

Nonprofit providers’ operating margins fall as more challenges loom

COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives, study calculates

COVID-19 fell from top telehealth diagnoses in September

AstraZeneca withdraws COVID-19 vaccine, citing declining demand

‘Bravo Congress’: Telehealth groups cheer omnibus extension of COVID-19 flexibilities

Hospitals bet big on venture capital amid COVID-19 revenue flux

Omicron sent COVID-19 back into top telehealth claims in November

No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Hospitals improve on infection control after COVID-19 spike: Leapfrog

DEA temporarily extends COVID-19 telehealth prescribing flexibility for controlled substances

How AI and machine learning can predict illness and boost health equity

French researchers reveal chatbot skills to override vaccine hesitancy

VA seeks to end telehealth copays and fund virtual care access in rural areas

18M projected to lose Medicaid coverage at end of COVID-19 emergency

COVID-19 vaccine prices are going up. It shouldn’t be our focus.

'On high alert': Hospitals wary of cyber threats from Russia-Ukraine conflict

13 hospitals receive funding as special pathogen care hubs

Healthcare bankruptcies are rising. Here are five major filings so far in 2023.

States curb CON laws to boost bed capacity

Fair Health finds 76% drop in telehealth use from 2020 to 2021

Millions of people counting on Congress to protect telehealth access

Ascension Michigan settles multi-year dispute about employee vaccination policy

National health spending reached $4.3 trillion in 2021

Watchdog faults FDA for rushing COVID tests to market by easing emergency use rules

State Medicaid spending fell below pre-pandemic levels during continuous enrollment

For most of COVID-19 pandemic, major for-profit hospitals’ operating margins exceeded years prior

Amwell partners with electronics giant LG to develop digital health tools

US health spending to surpass $7T by 2031, CMS actuaries say

Travel nurse pay remains high as hospitals fill gaps from staff departures

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