Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Peter is the Director of the Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health ( @TuftsCEVR ) at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies at Tufts Medical Center ( @TuftsMedicalCtr ), and is a professor of medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine.

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

ASHE’s 12,000+ members design, build, and operate hospitals, and are involved in improving the health care physical environment from the time hospital blueprints are drawn throughout the lifespan of a facility.” It sought to resolve that.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

While a separate faction of motivated cardiac imaging researchers do seem to believe they’ve uncovered definitive proof of significant cardiac damage from COVID they would be quite wrong.).

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 18, 2022

The definition of abnormal was based on heart function (Ejection Fraction or EF), cardiac volumes (chamber size), and TI signals (typically used to see inflammation). Topol’s assertion is that 1 out of 5 individuals with Long COVID have some COVID abnormality and half of those continue to be abnormal at 12 months.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That’s my fear about all of the supposed revolutions in healthcare: I’m pretty sure we’re not dreaming big enough, and we definitely aren’t moving quickly enough.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 5, 2022

It makes achieving health a matter of random chance, or size of pocketbook. It takes a narrow definition of health and pours tremendous amounts of effort and money into trying to achieve that, for brief periods, for some people. We can do better. The status quo is not working, and has never worked, not for most people.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 17, 2022

Amouyel notes that traditional definitions of innovation focus on the use of novelty to create wealth. Amouyel is the Executive Director of Solve , an MIT initiative whose mission is “to drive innovation to solve world challenges.” It sees itself as “a marketplace for social impact innovation.”. In her article, Ms.

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International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

By definition, the cause of death inequality indicator has the lowest value of 0 whenever all individuals die from the exact same cause. In our study , recently published in the IJE , we introduced a new measure – the cause of death inequality indicator – to assess the extent of dissimilarity among causes of death.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Their definition somewhat snidely concludes: “It’s easy to know which buildings have microgrids. Microgrids are designed to operate consistently in both “blue sky” and emergency situations supported by a range of energy resources, such as renewable energy, energy storage, combined heat, and power or generators.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

is definitely not.”. Getting countries to agree on the problem, he added, “only works if the countries are willing to put international interests ahead of their own paranoia about military concerns, and it’s not clear that China is, and the U.S.

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Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. Prepare for a Career in Global Health Are you ready to promote health equity across the globe?

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Those grades are designed to incentivize providing the highest quality care for the money ­— the very definition of “value.” Plans receive a quality grade from one to five stars from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A high grade triggers both a boost in payment from Medicare and a boost in enrollment.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 5, 2022

We actually should as a nation and a health care macro system want to see an expansion of our data base and our medical records on basic levels of diagnostic information. As a nation and as a macro care system we should definitely want to have full diagnosis information for each patient. How CMS has changed Risk Adjustment.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Finding an easily administered biomarker would enhance the pursuit of a cure by providing a quick and definitive cause and effect relationship of certain approaches. In the case of alpha-synuclein, research has shown a direct correlation between clumping of alpha-synuclein protein in the brain and the death of dopamine producing cells.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We already know exactly what we got from the fee-for-service world, said former Triad Healthcare Network executive director Steve Noerr during a 2020 Duke health policy webinar. So that definitely hasnt changed. The post Why Kaiser bet on Cone Health for its N.C. expansion appeared first on North Carolina Health News.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 26, 2024

“The way that I think about this is that the second someone decides they’re ready to get a vaccine, there should be no additional barriers to that,” said Marquisha Johns, associate director for public health policy at the Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank. “We

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Based on my interview of him and on things that he says on his website, his claim to be the ‘inventor’ seems to rest on the narrowest definition of the word under patent law since his name is on some foundational IP, but not in the broader sense as someone who actually created something that didn’t exist before.”

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 9, 2024

If Americans dont realize how dangerous Kennedys beliefs are to public health or the power he would have over public health policy as HHS Secretary, they arent equipped to share their opinions about his nomination with their senators, who will decide whether to confirm his nomination. Kennedy Jr.s What can Kennedy actually do?

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2022

No one could say it definitely at the time, but the padded daily death numbers on dashboards were increasingly irrelevant. For the most part hospitals and health systems never felt anything like what they dealt with in 2020 when the virus first appeared. These results were too fragile to be definitive.

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Georgia’s had 32 standing members from a variety of backgrounds, including OB-GYNs, cardiologists, mental health care providers, a medical examiner, health policy experts, and community advocates. They are volunteer positions that pay a small honorarium. She’s absolutely responding to this legislation.”

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

An organization spokesperson pointed PolitiFact to its review and said it has no data showing a definitive answer. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 26, 2022

Some of my thoughts (such as on DNA storage or nanorobots ) may just be still too soon, but there are definitely some things I’d thought, or at least hoped, would have happened by now. I’ll highlight three: I thought we’d care more about our health. Twenty plus years ago I was an evangelist for what we’d now call digital health.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. Health Systems Didn’t Just “Happen”; Federal Health Policy Actively Catalyzed their Formation. By JEFF GOLDSMITH and IAN MORRISON. Managed Competition. premium/PMPM). premium/PMPM). Improving Care Giver Experience. Acknowledgements.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

s history of denying basic scientific truth, from the cause of AIDS to the legitimacy of transgender health care, they represent a grave threat to the health and well-being of the LGBTQ+ community, and he is poised now for one of the most powerful and consequential positions in shaping the nation's health care and public health policies.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

As to why Americans can’t do Canadian-style healthcare: “I lived in Canada, I trained in health economics and health policy in Canada, my wife is Canadian, and most of my extended family live in Canada. My definition of a futurist is an economist who couldn’t handle the calculus. See Mike Tyson). On Being a Futurist.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Yet the notion that they could elbow aside a century of science-based health policy is profoundly troubling to many health professionals. At meetings last week at Mar-a-Lago involving Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., All are mavericks of a sort, though their ideas are not uniform. Sign up for its newsletters here.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

His overarching goal was to advance Victorian morality by stamping out smut, which by his definition included obscene literature , abortion, contraception, gambling, prostitution, and more.

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University of Minnesota CIDRAP

OCTOBER 12, 2021

News Scan for Oct 12, 2021 lmclerno_91236 Tue, 10/12/2021 - 13:37 Bullet points Mental health and COVID-19 Politics and COVID public health policies Avian flu outbreaks in 2 nations Body Mental health worsened amid pandemic, especially in women, young adults An estimated 53.2

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” It’s coming from HHS [the Department of Health and Human Services].

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If spending goes down significantly, at least nine states could end their Medicaid expansion initiatives, throwing millions of low- and moderate-income Americans off of their government-funded health insurance, health policy experts predict. Park said, in an interview. But, otherwise, you have to work.

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The Medicaid and ACA cuts will then be on the table,” Larry Levitt, KFF executive vice president for health policy, said in a briefing days after Trump was declared the president-elect. With Republicans looking for spending reductions to help pay for tax cuts, the math is inescapable. Block grants make a lot of sense.”

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Yet the notion that they could elbow aside a century of science-based health policy is profoundly troubling to many health professionals. At meetings last week at Mar-a-Lago involving Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., All are mavericks of a sort, though their ideas are not uniform.

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