Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Royal Melbourne Hospital introduces remote heart device interrogation amid lockdowns. The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH), a public hospital in Victoria has turned to remote interrogations of cardiac implanted electronic devices (CIED) to continue checking up on patients amid COVID-19 lockdowns.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

(This marks a change from 2012-2017 when eligibility was linked to the legal and employment status of individuals) Can patients opt out of the public health care system (SNS) : No, however individuals can purchase voluntary health insurance (VHI) if they desire What share of patients purchase supplemental health insurance : 20.8%

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Healthcare It News

JULY 15, 2024

It encompasses Erie County Medical Center, one of only five public hospitals in New York State and the region's only Level 1 Adult Trauma Center. It also is the largest safety net hospital, serving a large proportion of at-risk and vulnerable patients. Erie County Medical Center Corporation serves Western New York.

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HIT Consultant

APRIL 20, 2022

By using TytoCare, mPharma’s mutti pharmacy network has been able to reduce costs, improve community members’ access to doctors and specialists, and save patients the long wait times that are common in hospitals and clinics. On average patients can wait two to three hours to see a doctor at public hospitals and one hour in private hospitals.

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Bill Of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Indeed, even as New York dropped its mask mandate, the state’s Department of Health advised hospitals and other healthcare settings to continue to require masks at this time, and major institutions such as New York City’s public hospital system and Memorial Sloan Kettering announced they would keep masking in place.

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Bill Of Health

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

A qualitative study with Black women working as nurses in a public hospital in Johannesburg demonstrated social and economic dependence on women’s health even prior to the pandemic. The gender division of labor in the household can act as a constraint on the quality and quantity of care supplied by women practitioners.

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 19, 2023

As an update to our previous post , on Monday, May 15, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 112 (“AB 112”), which is designed to provide critical relief to qualified struggling hospitals across the state.

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KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Although the Constitution protects people who work for public hospitals and other government employers with its guarantee of unrestricted speech, employees at private companies do not have a First Amendment right to speak publicly about workplace issues.

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NASHP

APRIL 15, 2022

Public hospital systems. Public hospital systems. Public hospital systems. Interim housing and meals in a recovery care setting for individuals who no longer require hospitalization. Individuals who meet the HUD definition of at risk of homelessness. Vocational services agencies. County agencies.

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Briggs Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

This HAN alert contains much more information, including symptoms, recommendations for clinicians as well as the public, hospitals, laboratories and public health officials. Please take some time to review the alert.

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Patient Safety Movement

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 21, 2021

– Klickitat County Public Hospital in Goldendale, Washington, was awarded $711,739 for the purchase of tablets, webcams, and remote monitoring kits to enhance its telemedicine offerings as the only health care provider in a sparsely populated area. – Southeast, Inc. – St.

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CiscoHealth

JULY 20, 2017

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest municipal health care system in the United States. In the past, the jails had to transport inmates to public hospitals for specialist care. Within it, the division of Correctional Health Services maintains a clinic presence at each of the City’s 12 jails.

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KHN

JULY 9, 2021

Although the Constitution protects people who work for public hospitals and other government employers with its guarantee of unrestricted speech, employees at private companies do not have a First Amendment right to speak publicly about workplace issues.

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Healthcare ECONOMIST

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In countries that have universal health insurance, but limited patient out-of-pocket costs for public hospital services, non-urgent hospital treatment often has a waiting list in public hospitals. A key question is, does increased rates of private health insurance actually alleviate public hospital wait times?

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Patient Safety Movement

DECEMBER 1, 2022

A new Patient Safety Bill in Ireland will make it mandatory for all private hospitals and health service providers to report serious patient safety incidents. Until now, only public hospitals were required to do so.

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NASHP

AUGUST 31, 2023

California’s Providing Access and Transforming Health (PATH) initiative supports the goals of California Advancing and​ Innovating Medi-Cal ( CalAIM ) in transforming California’s Medicaid (Medi-Cal) program to provide more equitable, coordinated, and person-centered care.

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NASHP

AUGUST 26, 2021

In New York City, the city’s public hospital system will lead tracing work. The New Mexico Department of Health is leading five regional contact-tracing teams statewide. Both , local health departments conduct tracing with central support from the New York State Department of Health.

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Bill Of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

So, Beatriz filed a constitutional action ( amparo ) urgently demanding an abortion in the public hospital where she received care. She requested an abortion, as her health and life were at stake. But, in El Salvador, abortion is a crime under any circumstance.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In Oceania, most public hospitals have an EMR in place, but purchase energy remains high since many public and private provider organizations are planning large-scale purchases of go-forward EMRs.

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Triage Health Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For example, funds granted under Title X of the federal Public Health Service Act to support family planning services may not be applied in programs where abortion is a method of family planning. [3] 4] Other grant programs may also restrict the services a funding recipient may offer.

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Sheppard Health Law

MAY 10, 2023

a hospital that closed after January 1, 2022). Understanding the qualifications and limitations outlined in the proposed legislation, including loan repayment terms and loan forgiveness options, is crucial for potential hospital participants. Programs like this may be crucial to keeping eligible hospitals from bankruptcy or closure.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2020

County, public hospitals are concerned that patients are waiting too long to seek care. For example, in L.A. For breast cancer patients, there’s been an initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic documented by the National Breast Cancer Coalition in a survey conducted among 564 patients in late March 2020.

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