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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Healthcare It News

Improvements in public health case administration, faster prior authorizations for specialty medications and rideshare delivery of lab kits for wellness are just a few interesting goals making vendor news in April.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: About This Toolkit and Our Framework

NASHP

Although efforts to modernize public health systems predate the COVID-19 pandemic, lessons learned from successful community and cross-sector partnerships in pandemic response (see Lessons Learned on Public Health-Health System Collaboration during the COVID-19 Pandemic ) underscore the need to further integrate these systems toward common goals.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity. Funding for state and local health departments decreased 17 percent between 2009 and 2019, while experts estimate that an additional $4.5

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State Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Behavioral Health Workforce

NASHP

These services involve targeted outreach at Native Hawaiian community events, individual assessments and employment plans, and use of both Hawaiian and English language resources. Address the disproportionate impact of corrections involvement on BIPOC communities. Build diversity, equity, and inclusion into state workforce planning.

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Family Caregiver Services and Supports

NASHP

Florida’s 1915(b)/1915(c) MLTSS program requires managed care organizations to offer a family caregiver training program as one of several quality enhancement s, along with fall prevention in-home and information on end-of-life issues and advanced directives.

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Reasonable Pricing Clauses: A First Step Toward Ensuring Taxpayers a Fair Return on their Public R&D Investment

Bill Of Health

Such a provision could prevent the public from paying twice for publicly-funded medical products—first through their taxes subsidizing government funded research and development, and second to procure the product in an inflated U.S. pharmaceutical market. In 1989, the U.S.