HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 1, 2022

What You Should Know: – The first large, real-world study of the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy found these vaccines, especially two initial doses followed by a booster, are effective in protecting against serious disease in expectant mothers whether the shots are administered before or during pregnancy.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 5, 2021

A newer category of personal health information, social determinants of health, garners well over one-half of Americans’ interest in access that data. let’s ensure health data access and equity by design as we collaborate to emerge stronger, healthier, and a more loving community in the wake of the public health crisis.

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 3, 2025

While each goal on its own is a critical driver of high performing health systems, working the five as a strategic quintet can benefit individual patients, families, communities, and the nations that fund (or share in funding) health care services to the country’s residents.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Covid-19 radically stretched healthcare providers in countless ways, including accelerating digitization and changing patient expectations about care delivery. Covid-19–era staffing shortfalls and burnout among physicians, nurses, and other clinicians, as well as IT and office personnel, continue to plague providers.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

The following three years saw similar numbers of financial penalties; however, there was another major increase in HIPAA fines in 2020 when 19 HIPAA violation cases were settled with OCR. According to Health Fitness, fewer than 4,304 individuals were affected. Josephs Medical Center is a non-profit academic medical center in New York.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

All those activities, couched in safety and hygiene — being protected from the tricky COVID-19 virus, which meant keeping a clean home environment in terms of air, surfaces, and hand-hygiene. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 17, 2023

Talib Jaber, RPh, VP of Customer Success, Sunwave Health The pandemic caused a significant increase in overdose and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) related deaths, exposing long-standing deficiencies in the identification and treatment of SUD. About Talib Jaber Talib Jaber, RPh is the VP of Customer Success at Sunwave Health, Inc.,

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Yann Fleureau, CEO of Cardiologs, said: "Since the coronavirus crisis began, medical centers have been quick to realize the challenges they face in managing care for patients with cardiac conditions, including the time it takes to read and assess the growing number of ECGs being processed. UK GOV LAUNCHES CONSULTATION ON DATA REFORMS.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2025

Immigration Plan, Safeguard, Care: An Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Immigrant Enforcement Actions The Hastings Centers Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Covid-19 (March 2020) established foundational duties for responding to a public health emergency.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Mat-Su Health Foundation receives largest one-time gift ever from MacKenzie Scott. State health department ends COVID data summaries, will track COVID and flu side by side. In COVID years, new patterns emerged in Alaska hospitals and emergency rooms, report says. COVID cases are low in D.C. million gift. .

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Hall Render

JUNE 3, 2022

Court OKs denying coverage for mental health, substance-use care. COVID-fatigued health workers are mobilizing. Doctors, nurses risked their lives to battle COVID. Now they’re facing a mental health crisis. HHS formally establishes federal health research agency. Colorado COVID Cases Double in a Week.

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Hall Render

APRIL 7, 2023

NATIONAL AHA, AHCA warn CMS against unfunded nursing home staffing mandates AHA to Congress: Funding rural hospitals is critical for access AHA-supported bill to aid small rural hospitals reintroduced in Senate Biden won’t veto Republican-led bill ending COVID emergency CVS-branded hospitals?

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Hall Render

MAY 31, 2024

investment Q&A: Population Health Company Navvis’ New CEO Courtney Fortner SSM Health names 1st digital chief St. margin in Q1 AI + navigation = faster cancer care at Northwell Mount Sinai’s Beth Israel submits revised closure plan Dollars can boost health equity, but broad change is just as important Montefiore records $27.9M

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