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Systemic Failures Need Systemic Solutions: COVID-19 and Macromedical Regulation

Bill of Health

Among the many failures to mitigate the harm from COVID-19 in the U.S. has been the failure to meet surging demand for inpatient care. Hospital bed shortages, overwhelmed intensive care nurses, and scarcities of needed medical equipment have been embarrassing but constant features of the American health care landscape.

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How Will the “New” Health Economy Fare in a Macro-Economic Downturn?

Health Populi

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. health care?

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

In the Spring of 2020, a number of institutions—health, education, judicial, and others—went through a wrenching technological transformation: To prevent the spread of COVID-19, they took refuge online. I talked to a number of health IT and telehealth experts in a search for answers to these questions. If the U.S.

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Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Bill of Health

The future of work and of aging will be shaped by struggles over care from both giving and receiving ends, perhaps against those profiting in between. Recall that the first COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities. spread between nursing homes.

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Creating Brain-Forward Policies Amid a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

Bill of Health

COVID-19 will be with us — in our society and in our brains — for the foreseeable future. This symposium contribution focuses specifically on COVID’s lasting effects in our brains, about which much is still unknown. What does COVID infection do to our brains? By Emily R.D.

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A Mom Owed Nearly $102,000 for Hospital Care. Her State Attorney General Said to Pay Up.

Kaiser Health News

Bridget Narsh’s son, Mason, needed urgent help in January 2020, so she was offered the chance to send him to Central Regional Hospital, a state-run mental health facility in Butner, North Carolina. Mason, now 17, was hospitalized for more than 100 days in Central Regional over two separate stays that year, documents show.

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How to Restore Americans’ Confidence in U.S. Health Care: Deal With Access and Cost

Health Populi

and more health citizens getting their first jabs, there’s growing optimism in America looking to the next-normal by, perhaps, July 4th holiday weekend as President Biden reads the pandemic tea leaves. But that won’t mean Americans will be ready to return to pre-pandemic health care visits to hospital and doctor’s offices.

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