Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

By Kelan Thomas. Given the current evidence for psychedelic “microdosing,” the risks may outweigh the benefits for many people. This is because there is compelling theoretical evidence to suggest prolonged and repeated microdosing may cause valvular heart disease (VHD), and only weak survey evidence that it provides the benefits microdosers typically seek, such as enhanced cognition, or relief from depression and anxiety.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 11, 2022

By adapting new tactics, building more flexible ways to credential new nurses and making academic progression more accessible, learning institutions can take critical steps to strengthen America's core of nurses, the authors argue.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 15, 2022

West Virginia will use the U.S. Postal Service and an online account this summer to connect with Medicaid enrollees about the expected end of the covid public health emergency, which will put many recipients at risk of losing their coverage. What West Virginia won’t do is use a form of communication that’s ubiquitous worldwide: text messaging.

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Compliance Now

APRIL 13, 2022

Jennifer Berman, CEO, MZQ Consulting. On April 9, 2022, the Maryland General Assembly overrode Governor Larry Hogan’s veto of the Time to Care Act of 2022 to establish a mandatory paid leave program. This program will provide for up to 12 weeks of paid leave for all employees in the State who meet minimum eligibility criteria. Such benefits will be provided either through a State-based program known as the Family and Medical Leave Insurance (FAMLI) Program or by private employers who elect to op

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Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2022

By Jacob Balamut. David Bennett, a man who recently underwent the world’s first successful xenotransplantation organ surgery, died last month after a sudden and as yet unexplained period of rapid deterioration. Bennett, who was 57 years old, had been suffering from end-stage heart disease. With limited options for treatment, he underwent an experimental emergency procedure to replace his damaged heart with a genetically modified pig’s heart.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 13, 2022

It's the latest state that relaxed rules for nurse practitioners during the pandemic then decided to make those changes permanent. Half the states in the country now grant full practice authority to NPs.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

A Department of Veterans Affairs-funded study published in Neurology found that a telestroke program helped prevent unnecessary hospital transfers for patients. The research , published in conjunction with the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine, examined the VHA National Telestroke Program, which provides acute stroke care at facilities without an available neurologist.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 11, 2022

By Robert I. Field and Anthony W. Orlando. The latest wave of COVID cases and hospitalizations has raised concerns about the financial resilience of many hospitals in the United States. Throughout the pandemic, we have witnessed shortages of medical supplies, exhaustion of frontline workers, and the overflow of patients beyond the physical capacity of hospital beds and buildings.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 12, 2022

The analysis compared the value of hospitals' tax exemptions to their charity care and community contributions, finding that 227 out of 275 systems gave much less than they received.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 13, 2022

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 13, 2022

A study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network Open found that receipt of video-enabled tablets during the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with more psychotherapy visits and reduced emergency department use among veterans. The study , which was led by researchers from VA Palo Alto Healthcare System in Menlo Park, California, examined nearly 500,000 rural veterans who had a history of mental healthcare use.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

By Erin Sharoni. Restricting access to microdosing, a low-risk intervention that may alleviate intractable pain, depression, and anxiety — obligatory requirements for human flourishing — is morally wrong. Psychedelic microdosing involves the administration of a psychedelic substance in sub-perceptual doses — doses small enough not to provoke any intoxicating effects, but that potentially result in favorable physiological or psychological changes.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 12, 2022

A majority of health centers reported they lost up to a fourth of their workforce in the past six months alone, according to a new survey from the National Association of Community Health Centers.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 12, 2022

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 15, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. By Joey Cavanaugh, RN, chief operations officer, Zotec Partners. The American healthcare system has long been burdened by interoperability issues preventing easy access to and sharing of important patient health data. Amid the ongoing COVID-19 […].

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Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

By Adrian Gropper. As we inexorably digitize everyday life, for-profit “ Big Tech ” cannot be trusted to serve the individual or society. Personal information must not be locked-in to a commercial tech “platform,” such as Facebook or a branded for-profit entity. Personal information infrastructure must be treated the same way we treat infrastructure for clean water — as a fundamental human right.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 13, 2022

Two neurosurgeons in Washington state were accused of operating on patients who were not appropriate candidates for surgery, causing excessive complications and negative outcomes.

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Kaiser Health News

APRIL 14, 2022

Health officials in at least three states are investigating a travel nurse suspected of tampering with and potentially contaminating vials and syringes of opioid painkillers in two hospitals, then returning the vials to medication cabinets where they could be unknowingly given to patients. One hundred patients who may have been exposed to contaminated syringes last year at Johnson City Medical Center in Tennessee were urged to get tested for hepatitis and HIV, according to state documents obtain

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FACIS® helps organizations mitigate patient and organizational risk. Maintaining compliance and safeguarding against fraud and abuse in today’s changing healthcare landscape can be challenging. Most healthcare organizations screen and monitor providers against the OIG but that’s only ONE of FACIS®’ primary sources. FACIS® pulls data for every taxonomy from the lowest level employee to the highest level licensed professional.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 11, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued new draft guidance for medical device manufacturers to help them incorporate cybersecurity protections into their products at the premarket stage, and to ensure security risks are managed for the full life cycle of the products. The FDA first released final guidance on premarket expectations for medical devices in 2014, then updated and released draft guidance in 2018.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 13, 2022

By Cathy Zhang. The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) expires at the end of this week, with Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expected to renew the PHE once more to extend through mid-July. When the PHE ultimately expires, this will also trigger the end of the Medicaid continuous enrollment requirement, under which states must provide continuous Medicaid coverage for enrollees through the end of the last month of the PHE in order to receive enhanced fede

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 12, 2022

As more software-based treatments gain FDA clearance, they still face hurdles ahead, including insurance reimbursement and garnering adoption among patients and physicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 14, 2022

The following is a guest article by Anand Shroff, President at Verantos. Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great promise to dramatically improve clinical outcomes for patients, but in a perverse twist, AI algorithms that are used to improve drug development and support healthcare don’t just highlight social inequities — they may ultimately exacerbate them.

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 12, 2022

The law firm BakerHostetler has published its 8th Annual Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report , which provides insights based on 1,270 data security incidents managed by the firm in 2021. 23% of those incidents involved data security incidents at healthcare organizations, which was the most targeted sector. Ransomware Attacks Increased in 2021.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 15, 2022

By James Fadiman. Law and policy around microdosing of psychedelic substances should reflect its proportionally low risks. “Microdosing” refers to the practice of consuming very low doses of psychedelic substances, about 1/10 th to 1/20 th of a typical dose, primarily of psilocybin-containing mushrooms or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Doses typically are taken intermittently, over several weeks, and they do not interfere with normal daily activities, unlike the powerful consciousness-alterin

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 11, 2022

The nurses' demands in new contracts focus on recruitment and retention of nursing staff "amid an industry-wide shortage and nurses being exhausted after working through the pandemic, many in short-staffed units," the union said.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 12, 2022

We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 4/15 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by John Lynn (@techguy) from @hcittoday on the topic “Health IT Podcasts.” Even before COVID, we were seeing podcasts starting to really go mainstream and be an important way for […].

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HIPAA Journal

APRIL 12, 2022

A recent data breach at the email marketing platform vendor Mailchimp has prompted a warning from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center ( HC3 ) about the risk of phishing attacks using the platform. The breach came to light when the cryptocurrency hardware wallet provider, Trezor, investigated a phishing campaign targeting its customers that used the email addresses registered to Trezor accounts, which uncovered a data breach at Mailch

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Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2022

By Joseph Rootman. Public uptake of psychedelic microdosing has outpaced research on the practice, which has left gaps in our understanding. In order to help fill some of these gaps in the scientific literature, our clinical psychology research team at the University of British Columbia has launched the Microdose.me study along with a team of international researchers and partners.

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Healthcare Dive

APRIL 11, 2022

The healthcare industry has faced unprecedented staffing challenges over the past two years. Learn what the leaders of CHG Healthcare's staffing brands had to say about the competition to attract and retain providers in 2022.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 12, 2022

Thirty Madison, a New York-based virtual care company aimed at serving patients with chronic conditions, launched a new platform this week geared toward comprehensive skin health. The new vertical, called Facet, will address eczema, psoriasis, acne, rosacea, dandruff, melasma and anti-aging concerns, said the company. "People need medical solutions to properly treat their skin – it’s the body’s largest organ,” said Facet medical director Dr.

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