Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

By Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant. Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. Management consulting firm McKinsey, for example, writes that COVID has taught us that “infectious diseases are a whole-of-society issue.

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Healthcare Dive

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The average wait for an appointment is 26 days, pointing to a growing shortage of physicians, a staffing agency said.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

By Matthew Chun. International collaboration through the sharing of health data is crucial for advancing human health. But it also comes with risks — risks that countries around the world seem increasingly unwilling to take. On the one hand, the international sharing of health-related data sets has paved the way for important advances such as mapping the human genome , tracking global health outcomes , and fighting the rise of multidrug-resistant superbugs.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 31, 2022

Leaders have an opportunity to reimagine their telehealth infrastructure with these five best practices.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

By Philip Rocco. In the last month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s failed responses to COVID-19, ranging from “testing to data to communications,” have prompted a call to reorganize the agency. Yet restructuring the CDC will have little effect on pandemic preparedness if the decentralized American approach to health finance remains in place.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JUNE 20, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Healthcare is something that’s been around for a while, especially in the western world, but as with all things, digitalization is omnipresent and something that’s unavoidable. In this article, we’ll explore how digitalization is affecting […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 5, 2022

St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.

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Health Populi

JUNE 8, 2022

“I am a health care executive who happens to be a patient, caregiver, and advocate,” Stacy Hurt explained to me in a Zoom chat we shared on 31 May. I asked her to meet with me to discuss her professional news update: being appointed Parexel’s first Patient Ambassador. My Zoom invitation to Stacy was a very convenient excuse for me to catch up with a friend in the field: we have known each other since Stacy started to grow her health-social media presence on Twitter.

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

According to the study published in npj Digital Medicine, high scores for depressive symptoms and lower-than-excellent self-rated health were associated with less smartwatch use.

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NEJM

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As he prepares to step down from the NIAID after 54 years, Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects on the evolution of his field and cautions that emerging infectious diseases are truly a perpetual challenge.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as responsible for their data breach. This comes as the social media giant faces a growing number of lawsuits alleging that the tool improperly collects and sells sensitive patient health information. Both of the recent incidents, which were announced in mid-October, involved a Meta tracking tool known as Meta Pixel.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

While love can’t solve all of the world’s problems, it is absolutely a basic human need and a positive force for health and well-being. For today’s Health Populi blog, I have curated a big hug-full of posts I’ve written over the years building the evidence base of love as a determinant of health. As a sidebar, the graphic you see here — my “WiFi Heart” — was purposefully commissioned to my web designer to incorporate elements of love and connectivi

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 28, 2022

A three-judge federal appeals court panel in Connecticut has likely ended an 11-year fight against a frustrating and confusing rule that left hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries without coverage for nursing home care, and no way to challenge a denial. The Jan. 25 ruling, which came in response to a 2011 class-action lawsuit eventually joined by 14 beneficiaries against the Department of Health and Human Services, will guarantee patients the right to appeal to Medicare for nursing hom

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Healthcare Dive

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Although the U.S. is entering a post-COVID era, many factors straining the healthcare industry will continue and more risk factors will kick in, argues Syed Kaptan of cybersecurity intelligence company ThreatQuotient.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2022

By Terri Gerstein. Consider the quiet car. Some Amtrak trains have a designated car for people who want a hushed environment in which to work, read, or sleep. Passengers who want quiet choose the quiet car. People who don’t want quiet sit elsewhere. In short: people want different options for travel, and Amtrak threads the needle, accommodating varying needs.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 18, 2022

While interoperability and price transparency rules are supporting a movement toward better access to data, the industry is still struggling to transition from sharing information to shared decision-making. Unfortunately, without accurate information embedded in their workflows, providers can’t have meaningful conversations with patients about care costs or covered options, which negatively impacts a patient’s ability to access care.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 25, 2022

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited. Technology has improved the patient-doctor relationship dramatically since healthcare organizations have embraced its versatility and effectiveness. But, while technology is an effective method for improving the patient’s healthcare experience, it is not the only area […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 22, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic brought telemedicine technology and services to a mainstream audience – like it or not. As it turned out, studies have shown that a great many patients and providers like the flexibility that telemedicine affords. Liz Fobare is vice president of product management at Kareo, a vendor of cloud-based clinical and practice management software for independent healthcare practices and billing companies.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2022

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Those were the words of Ardy Arianpour, CEO and Co-Founder of Seqster, when sharing with me how his company was founded. We met up last week at the DIA Europe 2022 meeting (Drug Information Association) in the cool SQUARE Conference Center in Brussels, Belgium (my current home base for work and life).

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Mobi Health News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Elena Viboch, partner at General Catalyst, discusses her predictions for biotech and health tech investing and how startups can grow in a more constrained economic environment.

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NEJM

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Among school districts in the greater Boston area, the lifting of masking requirements was associated with an additional 44.9 Covid-19 cases per 1000 students and staff during the 15 weeks after a statewide masking policy was rescinded.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

For the 44th episode of the CIO podcast hosted by Healthcare IT Today, we sat down with Dr. Jennifer Goldman, DO, Chief of Primary Care at Memorial Healthcare System. In this episode we’re discussing Dr. Goldman’s work in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH). First we dive into what she’s done to integrate SDoH data into the EMR and how she’s kept people from over looking it.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

During the pandemic, millions of people connected with Twitter to share thoughts and feelings about the pandemic…and their health. Three mega-trends bubbled up on the platform for health — telemedicine and virtual care, broadband access, and mental health, discussed in a Birdseye Report Industry Deep Dive into Health from Brandwatch, partnering with Twitter.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 7, 2022

There have been calls for healthcare organizations to take steps to improve security due to a major rise in hacking incidents, ransomware attacks, and vulnerability disclosures in 2021. Record numbers of healthcare data breaches were reported last year, and tens of millions of healthcare records were compromised. Adhering to the minimum requirements of the HIPAA Security Rule and conducting risk analyses, having robust risk management practices, conducting vulnerability scans, and implementing t

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Healthcare Dive

JULY 11, 2022

Saying the medicine’s high cost “epitomizes market failures,” California’s governor announced a $100 million budget to create a production facility and develop affordable insulin products.

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