Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

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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Hall Render

MAY 10, 2024

Health Policy Commission still missing key document in Steward sale to Optum Local obesity drug developer lands deal worth up to $600M with Novo Nordisk Mass. Million CALIFORNIA California hospital dismisses CEO California physician pleads guilty to $2.5M million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’ million expansion ‘Very, very unusual.’

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

OSHA , which limited federal authority to regulate worker safety with COVID-19 vaccination requirements. The “major questions doctrine” popped up throughout recent public health decisions and became formally recognized in Chief Justice Roberts’ majority opinion in West Virginia v.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

See e.g., California’s 1115 waiver (pages 1-9 have an overview of prerelease services). “If… w e can reform jails and prisons from places of withdrawal and abstinence to treatment and recovery, we need to better connect their populations with the outside world.

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Kaiser Health News

JULY 20, 2023

.” Stein refused an interview request about Mason’s bills, which arrived at the end of 2021 because the North Carolina government suspended debt collection in March 2020 as the nation felt the economic fallout of the covid-19 pandemic. Bridget Narsh has records showing insurance paid about $7,200 for one of his stays.

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Hall Render

MARCH 24, 2023

NATIONAL AHA, others oppose PhRMA-led campaign to restrict 340B eligibility AHA case studies feature hospitals that integrate physical and behavioral health services As birth rates increase, OB-GYN shortage worsens Biden, divided Congress seek common ground on health care reforms CMS resumes all No Surprises Act payment determinations FTC highlights (..)

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Hall Render

MARCH 29, 2024

Ron DeSantis signs bills to train, retain healthcare workers Tampa health care REIT pays $86M for Texas, Arizona portfolio GEORGIA 9 Georgia hospitals earn awards for patient safety Another inmate escapes Grady Memorial Hospital CHI Memorial breaks ground on new North Georgia hospital CON overhaul gains final passage in General Assembly Ga.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

That approach successfully transformed public and private health care — albeit not without challenges for coordination and political resistance — through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. This was accomplished by the U.S. Supreme Court also ended this order.

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Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2021

The latest (March 2021) Kaiser Family Foundation Tracking Poll learned that at least one in three Americans were recently “struggling” to pay living expenses since December 2020, with six in ten families affected by COVID-19 having lost a job or income. State Governors to expand Medicaid. electorate is in favor.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 3, 2023

Although three in four doctors support scrapping state medical boards in favor of a single federal license, such sweeping reform is likely far off. By Timothy Bonis. It is not just state boards’ political obstructionism standing in the way.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But to focus on these failures risks forgetting the collective framing and collective policy response that dominated the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. This dangerously obscures what went wrong and limits our political imagination for the future of the COVID-19 pandemic and other emerging crises.

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Hall Render

MARCH 11, 2022

AHA urges Congress to address health care workforce challenges. 50 best hospital, health systems supply chains in the US, per GHX. in supplemental COVID-19 aid. CMS Innovation Center Launches New Initiative To Advance Health Equity. COVID-19 funding is tapped out, HHS says. Congress’ $1.5

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