Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 29, 2024

As public health officials nationwide sound the alarm on a “tripledemic”—the emergence of the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the influenza virus and the COVID-19 virus simultaneously—pregnant w | Given that Medicaid and CHIP cover a significant portion of all pregnancies in America—especially for historically disadvantaged groups—policy actions (..)

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 21, 2018

The NHS “supply shortage” is a result of financial cuts to both social care and public health. This article in the BMJ published earlier this year called for increasing these investments to ensure further erosion of population and public health outcomes, and to prevent further health disparities in the UK.

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Fierce Healthcare

MARCH 6, 2024

Both the policymakers and the public, near unanimously, painted PE as an exploitative and damaging force on care.

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The Rand Blog

JUNE 3, 2022

This weekly recap focuses what the scientific evidence says about gun laws, a potential pathway toward peace in Ukraine, helping incarcerated parents, and more.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2024

He's a longtime leader in clinical data management and healthcare policy, and has been focused on population health strategies for many years. We spoke recently with Brian Dixon, research scientist at Indiana University's Regenstrief Institute and interim director of Regenstrief's Clem McDonald Center for Biomedical Informatics.

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Fierce Healthcare

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Healthcare lobbying organizations’ efforts to carve out industry-specific exemptions in recently proposed Federal Trade Commission (FTC) policies are unlikely to see their requests reflected in the | FTC Chair Lina Khan told a conference of physicians that the proposal for a broad ban on non-compete clauses was largely supported in public comments, (..)

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Wisconsin Healthcare Leadership

JULY 13, 2021

On this episode of Coffee with the College, our host Janet Schulz discusses some public policy issues facing health care with Marshfield Clinic Health System’s Ryan Natzke, Chief External Affairs Officer and Brad Wolters, Director of Federal Government Relations. We hope you enjoy! Listen now!

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Healthcare It News

JULY 8, 2022

In this informative podcast, Johnson talks about the hybrid model that may be the future of telehealth, what will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery, current telehealth policy priorities and challenges, and the work of her ATA Advisory Group on Using Telehealth to Eliminate Disparities and Inequities.

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Health Care Dive

JUNE 21, 2022

The AMA announced over 20 policies including those that declared climate change a public health crisis, urged the FDA to make over-the-counter oral contraceptives accessible and more.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

From that work we identified and published 84 opportunities for US drug policy reform at the federal, state, and local levels across four domains: drug policing, harm reduction, social determinants of health, and health care. It ultimately provides a tool to address these misalignments directly.

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Bill Of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

However, the existing response is largely built on flawed policies that have resulted in mass incarceration, structural racism, and lagging improvements in treatment and harm reduction related to the opioid crisis. It ultimately provides a tool to address these misalignments directly.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively. The campaign seeks to "get states to enact comprehensive legislative and regulatory changes through state 'Momnibus' policies," said Leary.

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Bill Of Health

AUGUST 23, 2022

Too often throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have justified controversial policy choices by stating that the world is not arranged in a way to make certain actions feasible. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were justified by some public health pundits as “ meet[ing] where most Americans are.”

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p3care

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

So, this is ‘ Part IV ’ of our CY 2024 MIPS policy changes.] In our blog series, we have discussed the policy changes for MIPS performance categories and final scoring. In today’s blog, we will define the policy updates for third-party intermediaries. Now, let’s see what the MIPS 2024 policy entails for third-party vendors!

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

During the third DHAGE 2021 high-level meeting, held last month, decision makers in Europe identified collaborations and challenges for the future of digital healthcare policies - when accounting for the health inequailities that have been highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic. This would create a greater knowledge database. ON THE RECORD.

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Health Policy News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

On November 17th, the HPN team hosted a webinar as a companion piece to an October 2022 white paper – The End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency & the.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

The World Health Organization released a policy brief this past week aimed at combating age-related bias in health-related artificial intelligence tools. "AI holds great promise for the practice of public health and medicine," wrote researchers in the WHO brief. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. Along the way, courts have displayed an alarming disinterest in science or the impact of their decisions on the public’s health.

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HIT Consultant

MARCH 27, 2024

What You Should Know: – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)is seeking public input on a new draft plan outlining the nation’s health information technology (health IT) strategy for the next six years.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Next month Austria will become the first European country to mandate vaccination, with new rules meaning unvaccinated citizens face fines of up to €3,600 and bans from accessing public places. In October Italy became the first European country to require a COVID green pass for all workers.

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Bill Of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It has been an important forum for enabling States to address the fault lines in national public health systems, bridge gaps in global health security and policy, and strengthen collective efforts to build back better.

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 25, 2022

As the potential end of the public health emergency looms, the future of telehealth policy has been under increasing scrutiny. The public health emergency , which was just extended for the ninth time earlier this month, has enabled telehealth expansion via temporary flexibilities. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of online tracking tools is at odds with existing HIPAA rules and could cause meaningful harm to patients and public health. "This rule is flawed as a matter of law and harmful as a matter of policy," the AHA asserted. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Healthcare It News

APRIL 19, 2024

The survey also found that clear guidance or organizational policies governing the use of AI are still developing across healthcare. Email: afox@himss.org Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. That knowledge makes 76% of the doctors surveyed comfortable using genAI, the data showed. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 11, 2023

researchers are exploring how electronic health records (EHRs) can be used to improve public health surveillance and intervention efforts. utilize EHRs, sharing this data with public health departments is currently limited due to legal, political, and organizational barriers. While 90% of healthcare providers in the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 9, 2024

One of the ongoing digital public service projects under the plan is the construction of the Chinese Medicine Hospital Health Information Platform. Enterprise Taxonomy: Legislation Population and Public Health Clinical decision support Analytics AI Digital Health Public Policy Care Quality Care Data and Information Technology

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

These include: The challenge for public policy is to sustain the pace of medical innovation while ensuring that valuable new technologies remain affordable and accessible. One person testifying was an economist, USC Professor Darius Lakdawalla. While his full testimony is here , his key points of contention are worth reading.

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Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is inviting patients and their families, providers, clinicians, consumer advocates, healthcare professional associations, individuals serving underserved communities and all CMS stakeholders serving populations facing disparities in health and healthcare to submit public comments by November 4.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Treatments – there are two approved Alzheimer’s drugs and a third on the way – are aimed at patients beginning to experience forms of dementia, "making it important for people with those diseases to know sooner whether they have it," according to Trey Addison, public policy director for Alzheimer’s Association Ohio.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

By Katherine Macfarlane Public health in the U.S. This essay describes the cost of casting aside what is best for the public’s health in favor of individual choice, especially to those who are high-risk for serious illness or death from COVID-19. It explores how they must negotiate public health measures on their own.

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Home Health Care

APRIL 12, 2024

Among those efforts is a look at state electronic visit verification (EVV) policies and implementations for personal care and home health services. Let’s say you hire your niece and your niece doesn’t show up,” Bill Hammond, a senior fellow for public policy at Empire Center, previously told HHCN. Are you going to rat her out?

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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Bill Of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. It is with this context in mind that I turn to reflecting on the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (“Principles”).

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The Rand Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

For a public-private partnership to work, the individual interests of the private sector must be brought into alignment with the requirements of the collective good perspective and policy goals of the public sector. Both partners have useful tools and working examples to make this vision happen.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

MARCH 17, 2024

Medicaid policies vary from state-to-state. They use data from public state Medicaid formulary and preferred drug list files to determine if a state covered FDA-approved anti-obesity medications. However, are State Medicaid Agencies actually covering these medications? This is the question asked by Liu et al.

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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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NASHP

MARCH 18, 2024

The National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) is launching two policy academies focused on advancing state behavioral health policy strategies: the Behavioral Health Workforce Policy Academy and the Children’s Behavioral Health Policy Academy. Thursday, March 28, 3–4 p.m.

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