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

Bill of Health

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. By Barak D. Richman and Steven L.

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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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Struggles Over Care Will Shape the Future of Work

Bill of Health

In theory, all this care could be delivered in seniors’ homes and communities. The disability rights movement has long struggled against unnecessary institutionalization in state hospitals and nursing homes, winning wide recognition of the principle of aging in place.

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

Healthcare IT Today

For several decades, health care reformers have been advocating “fee for value” or value-based care, which supposedly rewards long-term results instead of individual encounters. Ultimately, the study found small reductions to overall health care costs. ” Remote patient monitoring.

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Tackling Racially Biased Health Care Algorithms

Bill of Health

By Hannah Rahim Algorithms used in health care have the potential to improve health outcomes but are susceptible to racial bias , which can have detrimental consequences for minority populations. Involvement of state governments State Attorneys General in California and D.C.

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

Bill of Health

Instead, we should affirmatively consider what brain-forward policies and governance could look like, building on lessons from past pandemics and towards a future of more universal support and structural accommodation of diminishment as well as disability. What would brain-forward health policy look like?

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Merck Price Negotiation Lawsuit May Face Same Obstacles as 340B Takings Claims

Bill of Health

Covered entities include various federally funded clinics and hospitals that serve low-income patients. Monsanto , where the Court held that no taking occurred where a party voluntarily agreed to relinquish trade secrets in exchange for a government license to sell a product.

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