Health Populi

AUGUST 2, 2022

When I talk about patient support programs (PSPs), I’m most often focused on supporting peoples’ access to medicines due to costs, bolstering health literacy, and addressing health citizens’ risks of drivers of health that can be obstacles to optimal health outcomes (those challenging social determinants of health).

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HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Today, manufacturers and healthcare providers don’t need to wait on the government to improve patient safety. Here are four things I believe healthcare workers need to know about medical device recalls to improve patient safety. But I still find that healthcare workers are unaware of how rampant this problem is.

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NASHP

MARCH 22, 2024

It includes examples from various states organized by the framework buckets: integrated primary and behavioral health care, crisis continuum of care, in-home and in-community based, and out-of-home and community. States have a range of tools and policy levers at their disposal to build capacity for integrated behavioral health approaches.

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Sheppard Health Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

It represents a compilation of OIG’s past guidance regarding basic compliance practices across a wide spectrum of industries and includes new guidance based upon lessons learned from negotiating and monitoring corporate integrity agreements and from enforcement actions and investigations.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As healthcare continues to digitally transform, integrating health data among various IT stakeholders demands much more collaboration than our predecessors could have imagined. Today, IT’s interaction with key organizational decision-makers is integral to safeguarding patient data, a primary component of delivering quality patient care.

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Briggs Healthcare

APRIL 7, 2022

During the PHE, CMS used a combination of emergency waivers, regulations, and sub-regulatory guidance to offer health care providers the flexibility needed to respond to the pandemic. In addition, CMS expects providers to have integrated practices to address any COVID-19 outbreaks into their normal operations.

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Icanotes

MARCH 3, 2023

Proper documentation of mental health services is also necessary for compliance with regulations and standards. General Process for Documentation — Intake to Discharge Clinical documentation impacts nearly every aspect of care, including the treatment you and other practitioners provide to your patients.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 23, 2023

Not only was patient safety better protected through virtual monitoring, but Trinity Health was also able to reduce its costs by $23M by avoiding non-reimbursed services for those injuries. At Trinity Health, falls declined from as many as 62 in the second quarter of 2020 to as few as 28 in the third quarter of 2021.

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KHN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Any political pressure to rush pharmaceutical companies or lean on federal regulators to prematurely greenlight a vaccine would undermine a system put in place to ensure public safety. The FDA has said any coronavirus vaccine must be at least 50% effective to secure approval from regulators. AstraZeneca’s target is 50%.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 14, 2022

When determining which, if any, devices to integrate into trial design and use, sponsors will need to keep a few key aspects in mind. For example, those in drug development rely on therapeutic experts and medical specialists to know specifically which patient safety issues we should be concerned with and how to efficiently monitor each.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 8, 2023

What’s more, patients are begging for better digital experiences – and are frustrated with healthcare’s lack of functionality. Late last year, Redpoint Global found that 80% of patients prefer digital channels to communicate with their healthcare providers. Strict privacy and security regulations must be taken into account.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 11, 2023

While a few countries have set the stage – Brazil’s DATASUS provides an integrated and open healthcare database, and Israel captures all patient data digitally from birth to death – we predict that the US will emerge as the leader in 2023. Yossi Bahagon, Chairman of Sweetch. Mike Peluso, Chief Technology Officer at Rectangle Health.

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