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‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bill of Health

APRIL 25, 2023

By Jonathan Howard On June 29, 2021, Dr. Harriet Hall penned an essay on the website Science Based Medicine titled “A New COVID-19 Myth?” 6 This didn’t stop her from making a nearly identical podcast in May 2022 titled “Living with COVID,” 7 which declared “we now have all the necessary tools to end the COVID ‘emergency phase’.

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Hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections rare and dropping, study suggests

Healthcare Dive

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In the last half of 2021, the rate of patients who contracted COVID-19 in a hospital rose at only half the rate as overall COVID-19 admissions, likely due to increased vaccination rates, researchers said.

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Hospital violence isn't confined to EDs, often rising during COVID-19 surges, full moons, data show

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Most alarms triggered by hospital staff’s wearable safety alert systems occurred outside of the emergency department and more often during weekdays, non-holidays, surges of COVID-19 and even during | Aggregate data from 200,000 workers' wearable duress systems suggest emerging or active violent incidents occur "throughout every part of the (..)

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Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings. Ending routine masking in hospital settings is a dangerous move. It also exposes hospitals to the risk of liability.

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Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 29, 2022

Hospitals overhauled their operations in COVID-19's early days. Now, two years into the pandemic, they are looking ahead at the future of their business, including revenue diversification and workforce stability.

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Stopgap Senate bill advances, but leaves COVID-19 funding behind

Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The bill cuts funding for COVID-19 and monkeypox aid but extends two rural hospital programs.

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Low operating margins will be new normal for some nonprofit hospitals: Fitch

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 30, 2024

The sector's recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic has been slower than expected. In a new report, the credit agency said some hospitals may never reach traditional healthy operating margins.

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Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the pervasive inequities experienced by historically marginalized communities, including people with disabilities. Although disabled people have always experienced inequities concerning economic security, these disparities have grown substantially throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With rising case numbers in across the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region and the rest of Europe, a fully vaccinated status might become compulsory for the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) soon – at least in some countries. Thus, negative test results or the recovery status would no longer be accepted.

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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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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app.

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Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2022

Public health and policy experts have published commentaries on the challenging issues underlying New York’s COVID treatment guidelines and others have offered more detailed guidance, including on this blog, on what criteria should be used in allocating scarce COVID treatments. Emphasis in original.)

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FCC announces first hospitals to win COVID-19 Telehealth Program funding

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday announced the first half-dozen awardees of its COVID-19 Telehealth Program. Here's how hospitals can apply. The first round of winners are: Grady Memorial Hospital – Atlanta. UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh. WHY IT MATTERS.

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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines. By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah.

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CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

hospitals manage the crush of new patients as the COVID-19 crisis worsens. Among them are new allowances for telehealth and remote monitoring, for what CMS is calling the Acute Hospital Care at Home program. "The patient’s home is considered part of the hospital during the admission."

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A Hawaii health system meets island community and COVID-19 needs with telehealth

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 7, 2021

This was true even before the COVID-19 pandemic, when the main focus was provision of tertiary specialty services to patients living in rural communities on Oahu and to those on neighboring islands. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we built an integrated telehealth platform within our Epic EHR using a third-party vendor, ExtendedCare.

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Costs of treating COVID-19 hospitalizations quintupled medical inflation across the pandemic

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JANUARY 4, 2024

million inpatient stays.

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Indonesia extends free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients nationwide

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2021

Starting tomorrow, the Indonesian government will deliver free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms across the country in a bid to ease hospital pressure as cases hit record highs. billion for COVID-19 treatment, testing, tracing, drugs, vaccines and protective gear. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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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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Telehealth can effectively manage COVID-19 at home, study finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 23, 2022

A University of Iowa study published this month in the Journal of Telemedicine and Telecare found that an at-home telemonitoring program was an effective and sustainable way to manage COVID-19 for patients. required hospitalization, and 1.2% Hospitalizations were much more frequent for high-risk patients. WHY IT MATTERS.

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How One Hospital Successfully Adapted to Thrive During COVID-19

Healthcare IT Today

MAY 24, 2021

As COVID-19 escalated, New York City Health + Hospitals, the country’s largest safety-net health delivery system, was inundated with cases. The following is a guest article by Bevey Miner, Chief Marketing Officer for Consensus. How about a positive healthcare story from the pandemic in 2020?

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California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The California Supreme Court has adopted take home asbestos liability and the California Court of Appeals has applied this to COVID-19 , but the California Supreme Court has yet to rule on this specific issue. Mr. Kuciemba soon developed COVID-19, which he brought home. Rothstein is the Herbert F.

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Medicaid changes, end of COVID emergency hampered hospital margins in April

Healthcare Dive

JUNE 1, 2023

Inflation and high expenses are placing a burden on hospitals as they recover from COVID-19 challenges. Hospital labor expenses rose 3% in April from March, according to Kaufman Hall.

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Remote monitoring tech from GE Healthcare, Microsoft can help hospitals manage COVID-19 response

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 16, 2020

GE Healthcare has introduced a new cloud-based remote-monitoring tool designed to help clinicians look after ventilated COVID-19 patients. GE's Mural virtual-care technology aims to give hospitals visibility across their ventilated patient population, helping clinicians identify patients at risk of deterioration.

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How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 2, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is throwing a new factor into hospitals' calculations about how to proceed with current and future healthcare IT implementations. " Some key IT staff in provider organizations are feeling the brunt of the COVID-19 surge, said Cash of KLAS.

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Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths. Tue, 12/13/2022 - 15:04.

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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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How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations

Healthcare Dive

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Large hospital operators reported increasing lengths of stay and difficulties discharging patients in the first half of 2022. The answer to why lies in a perennially stressed post-acute care chassis driven to the brink by COVID-19.

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Orlando Health to launch AI-driven hospital-at-home services

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 26, 2023

Data from the new hospital-at-home platform will be accessible through Orlando Health's Epic electronic health records through a multi-year agreement with the connected health and digital therapeutics company. In 2020, the company's AI technology and wearables aided Hong Kong doctors and scientists in the fight against COVID-19.

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What is consumerism amid COVID-19?

Healthcare Dive

MARCH 14, 2022

Hospital executives grappled with defining the term during day one of HIMSS22, and issued advice for hospitals looking to serve the modern consumer — while leaving no patients behind.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of all kinds of healthcare information technology, from telehealth to artificial intelligence. How has the COVID-19 pandemic reinforced the need for artificial intelligence and machine learning technology, moving into 2022, with the goal of improving patient and clinical outcomes?

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How COVID-19 forced some hospitals back to basics

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic had an enormous impact on the ways that health systems addressed population health needs. Hospitals had to pivot with only a few days' notice to respond to short-term patient needs, rather than focusing on long-term goals. In a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital Session scheduled to air on Monday, Aug.

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Nonprofit hospitals, hammered by soaring expenses, have ‘deteriorating’ outlook: Fitch

Healthcare Dive

JANUARY 11, 2023

Labor will remain the largest hurdle for hospitals this year even as they struggle with inflation and spiking COVID-19 admissions that can dent revenue, according to the ratings agency.

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Queensland's Gold Coast Health deploys Rauland's Concierge platform to reduce contact in COVID-19 wards

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Queensland's Gold Coast Health has set up a bedside terminal solution by health IT provider Rauland Australia to reduce physical interactions in its COVID-19 ward. There has been a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases across Queensland since end July due to an outbreak caused by the Delta variant. WHAT IT DOES.

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COVID-19: Lessons from Thailand’s BIDI & Samitivej Group of Hospitals

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 21, 2020

BIDI, which is under the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in Thailand, is a 240-bed tertiary care hospital with 1000 staff under normal circumstances, Dr Sirikwin explained. During the COVID-19 outbreak, BIDI’s HIS was utilized to create a suite of digital services for patients. Shortage of and rising prices of PPEs.

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Thailand closely monitors COVID-19 patients via telemedicine platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 6, 2021

The Thai government has built a telemedicine platform to monitor COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home and at community isolation centres. The platform was built to keep COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms out of hospitals given the lack of hospital beds.

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COVID-19 and The Financial Storm Ahead For Providers

Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on our nation’s health system. In hard-hit cities like New York and Chicago, we watched makeshift hospitals open, military hospital ships […]. The article COVID-19 and The Financial Storm Ahead For Providers appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Hospitals face lowest readmission fines since 2014, analysis finds

Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

More than 2,200 hospitals will incur penalties, the lowest number in nearly a decade, as the CMS adjusted its calculations for the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Median Hospital Charge In the U.S. for COVID-19 Care Ranges From $34-45K

Health Populi

JULY 16, 2020

The median charge for hospitalizing a patient with COVID-19 ranged from $34,662 for people 23 to 30, and $45,683 for people between 51 and 60 years of age, according to FAIR Health’s research brief, Key Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients published July 14th, 2020. One in five were diagnosed somewhere else.

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Mayo Clinic COVID-19 patients likely had better outcomes thanks to RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Research published this week in Mayo Clinic Proceedings found that COVID-19 patients who received care at Mayo Clinic had favorable outcomes compared to those reported nationally. Andrew Badley, chair of Mayo Clinic's COVID-19 Research Task Force, in a statement. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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With COVID-19 resurging, New York halts electives at 32 hospitals to preserve capacity

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

With COVID-19 resurging, New York halts electives at 32 hospitals to preserve capacity. Tue, 12/07/2021 - 15:03.

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The Year Ahead: Preparing For Widespread COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment

Electronic Health Reporter

JANUARY 5, 2021

The past year presented a number of unprecedented challenges for hospitals and health systems. The COVID-19 pandemic placed significant strain on providers, causing a demand for care that […]. The article The Year Ahead: Preparing For Widespread COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Volumes, net income down at for-profit hospitals in Q2

Healthcare Dive

AUGUST 3, 2022

COVID-19 patient volumes fell rapidly from the first to second quarter across hospital chains as case counts waned, executives said on calls with investors.

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‘We Want Them Infected’: An Excerpt from Jonathan Howard’s New Book on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hospital-acquired COVID-19 infections rare and dropping, study suggests

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Hospital violence isn't confined to EDs, often rising during COVID-19 surges, full moons, data show

Hospitals That Ditch Masks Risk Exposure

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic

Stopgap Senate bill advances, but leaves COVID-19 funding behind

Low operating margins will be new normal for some nonprofit hospitals: Fitch

Achieving Economic Security for Disabled People During COVID-19 and Beyond

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

COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria

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

COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Litigation Challenges Prioritization of Race or Ethnicity in Allocating COVID-19 Therapies

FCC announces first hospitals to win COVID-19 Telehealth Program funding

How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

CMS launches Acute Hospital Care at Home program to help with COVID-19 surge

A Hawaii health system meets island community and COVID-19 needs with telehealth

Costs of treating COVID-19 hospitalizations quintupled medical inflation across the pandemic

Indonesia extends free telemedicine services for COVID-19 patients nationwide

COVID-19 vaccine saved millions of lives, study calculates

Telehealth can effectively manage COVID-19 at home, study finds

How One Hospital Successfully Adapted to Thrive During COVID-19

California Supreme Court to Decide If Employers May Be Liable for ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19

Medicaid changes, end of COVID emergency hampered hospital margins in April

Remote monitoring tech from GE Healthcare, Microsoft can help hospitals manage COVID-19 response

How COVID-19 is impacting hospitals' IT purchasing decisions

Commonwealth Fund: COVID-19 vaccine prevented more than 18M hospitalizations, 3M deaths

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

How tight nursing home capacity is bottlenecking hospital operations

Orlando Health to launch AI-driven hospital-at-home services

What is consumerism amid COVID-19?

What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

How COVID-19 forced some hospitals back to basics

Nonprofit hospitals, hammered by soaring expenses, have ‘deteriorating’ outlook: Fitch

Queensland's Gold Coast Health deploys Rauland's Concierge platform to reduce contact in COVID-19 wards

COVID-19: Lessons from Thailand’s BIDI & Samitivej Group of Hospitals

Thailand closely monitors COVID-19 patients via telemedicine platform

COVID-19 and The Financial Storm Ahead For Providers

Hospitals face lowest readmission fines since 2014, analysis finds

The Median Hospital Charge In the U.S. for COVID-19 Care Ranges From $34-45K

Mayo Clinic COVID-19 patients likely had better outcomes thanks to RPM

With COVID-19 resurging, New York halts electives at 32 hospitals to preserve capacity

The Year Ahead: Preparing For Widespread COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment

Volumes, net income down at for-profit hospitals in Q2

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