The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2024

By JEFF GOLDMSITH As health systems struggle to emerge from the post-COVID financial crisis, the importance of the clinical enterprise to these systems has dramatically increased. This commitment has a direct financial consequence for health systems. A roll-up is not a credible foundation for a system, but merely a holding action.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Between May 12, 2021 and October 31, 2021 within a population of 32 million persons aged 12-50 years, 21 million first doses of the BNT162b2 (Pfizer) vaccine and 2.86 The highest risk of myocarditis is in women aged 18-24 after the second dose of the Moderna vaccine at a rate of ~ 1/18,700.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The articles by Bob Herman and Casey Ross detailed the dangers of using an artificial intelligence-driven algorithm to assist doctors and insurance case managers in making health care decisions for patients. At the same time, there was no accounting for variances in the patients’ health status, Herman and Ross explained.

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

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 turns out that there is something called a healthcare engineer.

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International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

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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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

The issues are technical, but basically the researchers put liver cancer cells in a laboratory situation that forced the cells to use information from mRNA of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to make small numbers of DNA fragments called amplicons. Another dose is under study for children below the age of 5.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) COVID-19 public health campaign, revealing it was fraught with miscalculations that set the stage for widespread public distrust. Despite this, the administration launched the "We Can Do This" Campaign, spending over $900 million to promote vaccine uptake and public health measures.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

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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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

An essay in Aeon had me at the title: The Waste Age. The essay is by Justin McGuirk, chief curator of the Design Museum in London, and accompanies an exhibit there: Waste Age: what can design do ? We live in the Waste Age. We’re not even mining the waste we produce for valuable information it can provide. By KIM BELLARD.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Can a photograph improve public health? A recent exhibit at the city’s Arts Xchange shared photos and comments illustrating how the people of East Point view health in their community. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

More than half of adults 65 and older report taking four or more prescription drugs, compared with one-third of adults 50-64 years old and about one in ten adults ages 30-49, according to KFF , a health policy research and information organization.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

The Office of the State Auditor released its audit of the Department of Health and Human Services oversight of nursing homes, accusing the department of consistently failing to conduct timely inspections and investigations of nursing homes across the state. oversight of nursing homes appeared first on North Carolina Health News.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 18, 2022

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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International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

To illustrate this, researchers highlighted the impact that overadjustment would have on their total effect of interest ( educational inequalities in health among people with chronic kidney disease ) by building various models with different levels of adjustment and explicitly comparing the results.

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Maternal Health Task Force

MARCH 18, 2024

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

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Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Call for New AMCHP Association Committee Members is Open Through November 8 Are you interested in effecting meaningful change nationally and have your voice heard on maternal and child health (MCH) matters? Share this information with your peers! Download our Call for New Committee Member informational flyer.

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Gideon

JULY 7, 2021

What is the importance of biogeography studies like this one to public health management? Photo by William Bossen on Unsplash In your experience, how effective study such as yours at influencing change in government and health policies, and do you think work like this will be taken more seriously following the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Read “ Using Law to Advance Population Health Planning ” in Health Affairs.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 2, 2022

By ELIZABETH BROWN, CATALYST @ HEALTH 2.0. A Panel Discussion reflected on how the findings of the IDIH Digital Health Transformation Forum around the areas of Interoperability by Design, Data Governance, and Digital Inclusion might be impacted in a post-COVID-19 scenario.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Recently, I became interested in the issue of how retirees whose professions defined their persona can, after age 80, as a “senior senior,” continue to be a person of substantiality. I created the Glorious Age of Aging to look at this issue over six hourlong meetings over three months. ’s Watch ” (Dec.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When he died in 2018 at age 85, his memoriam read : “For over 50 years, Dr. Slack conducted pioneering research on the use of computers in the medical world and was one of the founders of medical informatics. Clearly, not all health technology innovators share this narrow focus.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care. That figure rose to nearly 20% in 2020 during the pandemic.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Victims of the crisis, along with their advocates and public policy experts, have repeatedly called on governments to transparently report how they’re using these funds, which many consider “blood money.” Public Health District No. “If the information is all in hand, why wouldn’t they share it?”

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Judging by other parts of the interview, ‘they’ means government health agencies, big pharma, mainstream media. million to five institutions (Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Oregon Health and Science University [OHSU]) to study vaccines and the menstrual cycle.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. It was the latest in a drumbeat of health issues that she traces to the first months of 2020, when dozens of veterans died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, in one of the country’s deadliest Covid-19 outbreaks at a long-term nursing facility.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

markets, overseeing large physician networks and other health systems, including so-called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) that oversee the care of tens of thousands of attributed patients. Many of those individuals are between the ages of 20 and 40. Yet, given the trends, these starting ages might still be too high.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 12, 2022

She is currently Dean Emeritus and Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, but also spent years in government, and was on President Obama’s Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. Linda Rosenstock has an M.D. per 1000 to 11.4

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

For the most part hospitals and health systems never felt anything like what they dealt with in 2020 when the virus first appeared. Early on, it had a mortality rate that was multiples of the flu virus for almost every age group (even though the absolute risk to the young and healthy was always very low).

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 1, 2022

The Marshall Plan answered the question above, and its success in choosing health services as a starting point was well documented by many in the years to come, including the RAND Corporation. The AMA should pull all financial support for all Republican candidates through the 2022 elections.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

The availability of safe, effective covid vaccines less than a year into the pandemic marked a high point in the 300-year history of vaccination, seemingly heralding an age of protection against infectious diseases. Now, after backlash against public health interventions culminated in President-elect Donald Trump’s nominating Robert F.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

If the credits end, 4 million Americans could lose their ACA health insurance and 7.2 Also, hospitals, physicians and other professionals who deliver health care could see a rise in uncompensated care. million enrolled in 2020, according to this Health Affairs article. For journalists seeking detailed information about those 21.4

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Linda Duffy, 83, got sick of the games that she says UnitedHealthcare played with health care providers over negotiating contracts. In the fall, UnitedHealthcare and Duke Health ended a months-long standoff over contract negotiations just ahead of a Nov. 1 deadline. 1 deadline. The open enrollment period for Medicare ends Dec.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. The day after Donald Trump secured a second presidential term, New York officials pledged to protect residents’ reproductive rights and access to health care — and experts braced for a likely assault on local public health systems. “No

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We are very proud that the Senate came together Democrats, Republicans, and Independents to expand and strengthen the Older Americans Act over the next five years, said Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee chair Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and ranking member Bill Cassidy, (R-LA) in a joint statement. However, on Dec.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, is coming into the nomination process in an unusual position, with a long list of his own policy priorities separate from the president-elect’s, and a public promise by Trump to let him “go wild” on his ideas. Kennedy Jr.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization. We’re being reminded that HIPAA only goes so far , and, in our digital age, that isn’t very far. But, of course, I say “women” and I’m talking about pregnancy/abortion, but in 2022 all of us should be wondering who might be accessing our health information, for what purposes.

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