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Engineers: Heal Thyselves (and Health Care)

The Health Care Blog

I’m old enough that I remember when the Boeing 707 took airline passenger travel from the prop age to the jet age. In fact, there is an American Society of Healthcare Engineers , which says is “dedicated to optimizing the health care built environment. It sought to resolve that.

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We Hold These Truths

The Health Care Blog

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, health, and the pursuit of Happiness. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

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Proposing a new indicator to assess health disparities: measuring inequalities in causes of death

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

Iñaki Permanyer and Júlia Almeida Calazans Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in monitoring and curbing health inequalities. Measuring how ‘similar’ or ‘dissimilar’ the different causes of death are can help us understand global health inequalities and patterns of mortality. Read more: Permanyer I, Calazans JA.

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Get Ready for (Healthcare) Microgrids

The Health Care Blog

Its workforce is aging and burnt out. Our power plants and transmission lines are aging badly, we have a phobia of nuclear that is also starting to apply to coal as well, climate change is throwing more extreme weather at us, and many of the renewable options (solar, wind, geothermal) are not quite ready for prime time yet.

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Dr. Topol’s comment on LongCOVID and the heart is misleading/lacking context

The Health Care Blog

He was responsible for seminal work in Cardiology in the 1980’s on the use of clot busting drugs for patients having heart attacks, and became head of cardiology for the famed Cleveland Clinic at the age of 36! (I I vaguely recall feeling like I was starting to understand Cardiology at the age of 36.)

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MedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 3)

The Health Care Blog

The capitation levels that are paid to the plans are affected very directly by the health status levels of the actual enrollees. That initial payment process has evolved very intentionally into having diagnosis-based cost factors that attempt to link the health status of the members and a fair payment level for the plans.

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New Covid shots may be hard to come by for uninsured Georgians

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Updated Covid vaccines, slated to hit shelves this week, could come with serious sticker shock for more than a million Georgians who don’t have health insurance. For many local Georgia health departments, uptake remains a challenge.