Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A report by the Commonwealth Fund released this week found pervasive racial and ethnic inequities across all state health systems. The report found that racial and ethnic disparities endure even in states that achieve high performance overall. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By Brianna da Silva Bhatia, Michele Heisler, and Christian De Vos American health care too often fails to protect the right to health or promote health-related rights. health care system. America is the only wealthy nation to lack universal health coverage. impede the right to health and contribute to disparities.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

"Findings from this systematic review indicate that telehealth for mental health and some physical health conditions … [offers] promise across a range of outcomes and healthcare settings and can result in high levels of patient satisfaction," wrote the researchers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 8, 2023

Structural competency , which accounts for systemic “level determinants, biases, inequities, and blind spots,” is important to mitigating environmental racism and ableism in climate change and disaster policy. To achieve such intersectional approaches, the social determinants of health provide a useful framework. Figure 1 (adapted).

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Carr As a researcher studying the psychedelic experiences of people of color in hopes of driving equitable psychedelic health care, I’m concerned about the ways in which Black, Brown, and Indigenous contributions have been excluded in the development of the psychedelic field and investigation of novel psychedelic therapies.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 10, 2023

In our research on the nature of state-level preemption across 15 domains, we examined the ways states are using law to address local control of policies that teach race and racism in K-12 education. As of November 1, 2022,  16 states  had passed laws restricting the ability of educators to talk about race and racism in the curriculum.

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Bill of Health

MAY 11, 2022

As a Black/bi-racial transracially adopted person in mid-life, adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them. . For me, Amy Coney Barrett ridiculously over-simplified the most intricate experience of identity one can have, being born into one family and raised by another.

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HIT Consultant

MAY 17, 2023

Erin Jospe, Chief Healthcare Advisor, World Wide Technology There has been a newfound effort to highlight and address the disparity in health outcomes for patients who belong to one or more marginalized communities.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

As we close the year out, we sat down with Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of diabetic healthcare tech company Podimetrics to learn how the industry and his company are working to implement health equity change to serve patients living with advanced diabetes. Jon Bloom, M.D., As a result, amputation may become the only option.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed disparities in housing, food, and job security, and the role that one’s ZIP code and social determinants play in health outcomes. “Ensuring the health and safety of workers is a national priority and a moral imperative. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2021

The ultimate health and wellbeing of an adult depends on the factors that shape us when we are children. A new, deep report from the OECD, Measuring What Matters for Child Well-being and Policies , spells out the many domains of experience that, together, bolster our whole health as we grow from child to adult.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

It felt super appropriate that I met up with Abner Mason, Founder of SameSky Health, on Valentine’s Day 2022. My initial ask of Abner was to discuss the re-branding of ConsejoSano to SameSky Health , but I first wanted to hear the man’s origin story. Abner grew up in Durham, North Carolina. All three kids went to college.

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Innovaare Compliance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

All Special Needs Plans (SNPs) must include one or more questions in their Health Risk Assessment (HRA) in the following areas: housing stability, food security, and access to transportation. 6] Unlike physical health services, emergency behavioral health services must not be subject to prior authorization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 24, 2022

This global crisis has tested our ability as a civilization to respond to public health emergencies and mitigate the impact of geopolitical interference impeding our collective adherence to sensible policies geared towards disease prevention. Effective public health communication is the cornerstone of any pandemic response.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Caravan Health President and CEO Tim Gronniger previously was chief of staff and director of delivery system reform at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Caravan Health is a privately held company formed to create sustainable methodologies for health systems to excel in value-based care.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 24, 2022

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) may not be the most well-known complication on the long list of health problems related to diabetes, but it can be among the most serious. Black Americans are particularly vulnerable to amputations, losing their limbs at three times the rate of other ethnic and racial groups. Officially, 6.5

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Hall Render

APRIL 19, 2024

Cedars Leads Latest Round Of Funding In Yolo County, 16,000 Medi-Cal patients lose doctors in Dignity Health dispute with Partnership HealthPlan Kaiser med school names CEO Kaiser Permanente launches food-is-medicine hub Kaiser, Vizient target healthcare greenhouse gas emissions L.A.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

.” That year the firm began to study the relevance of, well, relevance for organizations especially operating in the health/care ecosystem. Those issues were COVID-19, the 2020 Election, health care policy, racial divides, and equity and access.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Ethnic and racial minorities are commonly underrepresented in clinical trials. Discriminatory biases , whether unconscious or not, in established policies or practices, can impact data collection processes, how variables are defined and more. Lucas Glass, VP of the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE), IQVIA.

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C&M Health Law

JANUARY 25, 2023

trillion spending package, which consists of all 12 fiscal year (FY) 2023 appropriations bills and funds the federal government through September 30, 2023, provides additional assistance to Ukraine, and makes numerous health care policy changes. 117-164 ) (the “Act”)—an approximately $1.7

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 7, 2023

The passing of the Telehealth Expansion Act of 2023 shows the federal government’s commitment to health equity, emphasizing the importance of increasing access to quality healthcare for all citizens, regardless of location or socioeconomic status.

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Hall Render

APRIL 12, 2024

in billing fraud Arizona system names new CEO Banner Health CEO Peter Fine to retire after 24 years, handing the reins to health system president Four UArizona bioscience startups selected for Flinn Foundation program Gov. to Develop Wearable Blood Loss Detector An Academic Lifeline for Rural Hospitals CHI St.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Racial bias can also arise through other aspects of an algorithm’s design.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

million patients Senate committee advances bill cutting hospital facility fees What Joint Commission, NQF’s affiliation means for hospitals Which health systems teamed up with Amazon, Google + Microsoft ALABAMA Alabama gets $3.6M in Stark law self disclosures: 3 things to know CMS’ staffing proposal will cost nursing homes $6.8B

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Hall Render

JUNE 30, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health , states may regulate abortion in a manner consistent with their own state constitutions and judicial precedent. As a result of the United States Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. The Dobbs decision overruled the Court’s own 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade , which had recognized the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S.

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

NATIONAL AHA Comments on House Proposed “Lower Costs, More Transparency Act” AHA shares workforce bill concerns with Senate committee AHA to agencies: Don’t finalize draft merger guidelines Amazon mulls tying healthcare to Prime: Insider Burnout growing among PAs; 8% plan to leave Costs for common healthcare procedures higher in hospital (..)

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Vincent Partners With Park Plaza Mall on Community Health Programs Former Arkansas Medical Board Chair Brian Hyatt Arrested for Medicaid Fraud New Provider in Arkansas Focuses on No-Rush Health Care Walker Foundation Pledges $1M to UAMS Radiation Oncology Center Five nonprofits to split $5.9

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 10, 2023

’ Health inequality and discrimination is not a new problem in healthcare. It is a problem that people have been fighting for since the very beginning but we still have not found the solution to achieving health equity. So it might be time to listen to Tadashi and shake things up. The following is their ideas.

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Hall Render

OCTOBER 20, 2023

behavioral health initiative CHI St. behavioral health initiative CHI St.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 12, 2024

NATIONAL 60% of health systems considering ASC joint ventures 9% of hospitals had ‘vulnerable’ cash on hand levels in 2022 $3.7B

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Hall Render

MARCH 25, 2022

5 healthcare companies get ‘F’ in racial and gender pay equity. Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act becomes law. Here are the top health systems by patient reviews. Here are the top health systems by patient reviews. Private equity’s pandemic-era health care push.

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Hall Render

MAY 19, 2023

Supplemental Grant for Rural Health Programs UAMS to Study Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Breast Cancer Treatment Arkansas Children’s Hospital Auxiliary Donates $1.4 Supplemental Grant for Rural Health Programs UAMS to Study Affordable Care Act’s Impact on Breast Cancer Treatment Arkansas Children’s Hospital Auxiliary Donates $1.4

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The study , which was authored by Director of Technology Policy Dominique Harrison, examined 152 rural counties across ten states with populations that are at least 35% African American. " "Systemic policy changes must address racial disparities, digital inequality, and broadband connectivity," she added.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

How 5 health systems are spending their innovation investment dollars. CMS overhauls Direct Contracting model to include new requirements on governance, health equity in 2023. Alabama’s Covid-19 positivity rate falling, giving hope to health leader. Chief medical officer discusses state of Cullman health care.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 24, 2023

What You Should Know: – Health equity – or the lack thereof – is one of the biggest challenges facing US healthcare organizations today. Through these actions, one could synthesise health inequities’ leading causes and effects. The statistics are staggering.

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Hall Render

APRIL 28, 2023

Here’s what it means for patients U.S.

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