The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Coined some twenty years ago by Ken Kizer, MD of the National Quality Form (NQF) and soon widely adopted and expanded, it recognizes that healthcare sometimes has egregious errors that shouldn’t happen: the wrong foot is amputated, the wrong drug/dosage is given, surgical instruments are left inside a patient, and so on.

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The Health Care Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Well, as usual, there’s a lot going on in healthcare. There’s the ( potential ) Amazon – One Medical acquisition, the CVS – Signify Health deal , and the Walmart – United Healthcare Medicare Advantage collaboration. Digital health funding may be in somewhat of a slump , but that’s only compared to 2021’s crazy numbers.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Bush touted the promise of affordability of prescription drugs and the federal government’s commitment to providing older adults with high quality healthcare experiences, all with the underlying intent of privatizing the administration of Medicare, by shifting spending from traditional Medicare to Advantage. healthcare system.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 3, 2022

I’m comforted that DARPA and DIU are learning in real time what lessons their agencies can learn to help fight future wars, but I’m wondering who in our healthcare system, and who in our governments (federal/state/local), are not just fighting COVID but learning the bigger lessons from it to fight future crises.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

healthcare system continues to be such a mess, and I have President Dwight Eisenhower to thank. I’ve been paying close attention to our healthcare system for, I hate to admit, over forty years now. Let our healthcare system get so bad that not addressing it no longer is possible.

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Bamboo News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

2024, Bamboo Health took part in the Medicaid Enterprise Systems Conference (MESC) 2024 conference in Louisville, KY, which centered on Medicaid systems and related health policy. An example of this is the crisis system’s ability to support justice-involved individuals through their care journey.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Eric Larsen. Tommy Ibrahim.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

If you missed it read Part 1 & Part 2 By JEFF GOLDSMITH Two major changes in health insurance ensued as the US health system entered the 21 st century- a strategic shift of health cost risk from providers to patients and the emergence of machine driven managed care.

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The Health Care Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

healthcare system: we’ll no longer have both M.D.s It wasn’t until 2014 that allopathic and osteopathic medicine agreed to a single accreditation system for graduate medical education. This is no way to run a railroad, as the saying goes – much less a healthcare system. BY KIM BELLARD. As I often lament, it’s 2022.

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The Health Care Blog

MAY 17, 2022

So it is for most of us with the word “innovation” – especially in healthcare. E.g., in healthcare, which of our many problems do we try to solve, for which populations, with whose help? Will it improve the health of the most undeserved among us? You keep using that word,” Inigo finally say s. “I

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Frontiers

AUGUST 4, 2021

Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions. It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy.

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The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

This is in part because of a faction of scientists that have mined electronic health record databases to find evidence that the long term impacts of COVID on a variety of different organ systems is significant. Once you’re brought to the attention of the health system, you suddenly have a lot more diagnoses added to your record!

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 19, 2022

I read the Stat News investigative piece “ Health care’s high rollers ,” by Bob Herman and colleagues, with interest but not much surprise. I mean, is anyone surprised anymore that healthcare CEOs often make a lot of money, and didn’t let a crisis like the pandemic dampen that? I think I know how to fix healthcare.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

By Rose Hoban and Joe Killian Published in collaboration with The Assembly A recent Saturday night at the Moses Cone Memorial Hospital Emergency Department felt different. One factor driving that change: Cone Healths expanded network of urgent care facilities , including locations near the main hospital on Greensboros N.

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PHAB

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services. She is a practicing emergency medicine physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. This is a critically important time for public health, said Dr. Khaldun. To learn more about PHAB, visit phaboard.org.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

And, of course, easier to relate to healthcare. We buy them already designed and built, complete with an operating system and other useful software. Some of those people are already using Raspberry Pis in healthcare, including various forms of monitoring, screening, and even MRI analyses. healthcare. Where’s our $5 MRI?”

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2024

So what, you might ask, does this have to do with healthcare? It turns out that there is something called a healthcare engineer. 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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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Respiratory season is here, but health policy has dominated this week’s national conversation. Groundswell frustration with the healthcare industry There’s been a remarkable conversation about the U.S. Here’s my 30,000-foot take: Americans have complicated feelings about their health insurance.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

We have, bluntly, not transitioned the health care system from something about acute / episodic / largely single illness to chronic / ongoing / largely multiple illnesses all at once. Nor have we achieved the shift from hospital to community. Tinkering with the system as it is now, or something more fundamental.

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Sheffield DPH

AUGUST 22, 2024

Through the event we wanted to explore our roles in influencing the structural and systemic drivers of climate change. rethink our economic models and policies. RTA (implies individual action, not system design) vs crashes Climate change as global heating. And thus policy. The ask of speakers was to challenge us deeply.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“Our city has always ensured that New Yorkers have the information and tools they need to make healthy decisions for themselves and their families,” said Mitchell Katz, MD, president and CEO, NYC Health + Hospitals. A ‘HealthyNYC’ is a ‘Food Forward NYC.’

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 26, 2024

The newly approved Covid vaccines should provide “great coverage” for current versions of the virus and will be effective in preventing serious hospitalizations and death, Emory University epidemiologist Jodie Guest said. The shots will cost around $201.99 for uninsured patients paying out of pocket at CVS, spokesperson Amy Thibault said.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Phase I- Health Maintenance Organizations and Delegated Risk Capitation In response to a long run of double-digit health cost inflation following the passage of Medicare in 1965, the Nixon administration launched a bold health policy initiative- the HMO Act of 1973- to attempt to tame health costs.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

PacifiCare, the most significant hospital sponsored health plan owned by the Lutheran Hospital Society of Southern California, was taken public in 1995. A subsequent merger with FHP health plan destabilized the newly public company.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

One sets up the problem healthcare has (although healthcare is not explicitly mentioned), while the other illustrates it. Those are exactly the right questions we should be asking about healthcare. Our most ambitious healthcare reform proposals seem to either be the catch-all “Medicare For All” or the simplistic single payor.

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 26, 2022

Nobody fessed up about being wrong about healthcare, so I’ll volunteer. . I’ve been writing regularly about healthcare for over a decade now, with some strong opinions and often with some pretty speculative ideas. Hospitals hadn’t, for the most part, consolidated, franchised, or gone overseas. microplastics ).

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The Health Care Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Both COVID and the recent Change Healthcare outage put health care providers in a terrible situation financially because they depend on being paid fee-for-service via claims for individual transactions. Did the leadership of America’s hospitals and doctors come out asking for a change to the system? of richest Americans.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On the ground, health care experts and homeless service providers say the law enforcement crackdown is undercutting taxpayer investments in evidence-based treatment and housing services that are being deployed by cities and states around the nation as politicians look to the health care system to aggressively move people off the streets.

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The Health Care Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

an environmental lawyer by background, has expressed numerous startling views about health and our healthcare system. Dave Weldon for CDC Director : He has a long history of vaccine skepticism, and while in Congress authored the Weldon Amendment, which provided protections for anti-abortion healthcare workers and organizations.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Hospital consolidation has risen to the top of the health policy stack. However, as we discussed in a 2021 posting in Health Affairs , these large, complex health enterprises played a vital role in the societal response to the once-in-a-century COVID crisis. Origins of Hospital Consolidation.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have been studying American healthcare for more than 40 years and I have assembled a large number of one-liners over the years. In Glasgow, healthcare is a right, carrying a machine gun is a privilege. For Canadians their health care system is a proud point of cultural differentiation from Americans. By IAN MORRISON.

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Black Health Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2024

healthcare system. If enacted, those plans would have reduced federal funding for health care by about $1 trillion over a decade, with the trade-offs being higher out-of-pocket premiums for people, more uninsured, higher spending and greater risk for states, and restrictions in Medicaid eligibility.”

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice of celebrity doctor and failed Senate candidate Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) marks the latest potential shakeup of federal health agencies, and adds new uncertainty to the future of Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. Medicare/Medicaid cuts?

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

A second Trump presidency could mean significant changes to the healthcare system, though Trump has been vague about his plans. noted at a recent campaign event, the law is too ingrained in the health system to be outright repealed. As Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) Trump’s running mate Sen.

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