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Mitigating Serious Fall Risks and Associated Costs and Injuries with AI-Driven Motion Sensor Technology

HIT Consultant

Concerning Times for Seniors The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) considers falls to be a public health concern, and with good reason. can be attributed to falls, including approximately six percent of Medicare and eight percent of Medicaid expenditures.

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Value-Based Health Care Needs All Stakeholders at the Table – Especially the Patient

Health Populi

Note: I may be biased as a University of Michigan graduate of both the School of Public Health and Rackham School of Graduate Studies in Economics]. health care, patient assistance programs, Medicare Advantage plans, and the bundling of proven high-value preventive services into the Affordable Care Act.

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Opill’s FDA Approval: Implications for Pharmaceutical Regulation and Access to Care

Bill of Health

Indeed, shortly after Opill’s approval, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists described the FDA’s decision as “a critically important advancement in the accessibility of reproductive health care.” This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity. From a legal and access to care perspective, what is its significance?

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Health Provider News – February 18, 2022

Hall Render

Lawmakers call on Biden to end public health emergency. Colorado Health Care Workers Now Included In Anti-Doxxing Bill. Colorado mental health professionals incensed after Medicaid forum that was intended to clear the air. 5 Things Colorado: Health bills, Nursing home funding, Naloxone access. MASSACHUSETTS.

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Health Provider News

Hall Render

health-tech startup MemoryWell pivots, eyes new funding to roll out software for insurers Department of Veterans Affairs health system kicks off multiyear Greater Washington expansion Georgetown to open Southeast D.C.

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Thinking Pharma on a Friday: Europe’s Big Reforms for a Health Union & the U.S. 50-State Fragments

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic re-shaped European Union leaders to reimagine healthcare, public health, and health citizenship in the EU. On 26th April 2023, the EC unveiled the most significant reforms for the region’s pharmaceutical industry in twenty years. health citizen-consumers.