Friday Feature: Soar Academy
Colleen HroncichIf you ’re designing a school for kids who have been left behind, you ’re going to need flexibility, an individualized approach, and a willingness to go at different paces. That ’s exactly what Kenisha Skaggs has created with Soar Academy in Augusta, Georgia.Kenisha worked at a tutoring center, but the methods they used weren ’t working. In 2010, she began tutoring students in her home after school. Parents liked the customized multi‐sensory approach she used—which she mainly learned from her mom homeschooling her in high school. Some parents asked her to homeschool their child...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 3, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
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A court ruled Georgia can proceed with a Medicaid expansion demonstration that excludes hundreds of thousands of low-income adults by subverting ACA rules.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - February 3, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sara Rosenbaum Source Type: blogs
The Impact of Legal Abortion on Maternal Mortality
Discussion Paper 15657 (2023): Legal abortion has recently been suggested as an essential healthcare service. In... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 26, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
New School Choice Timeline: Equality for Diverse People
Neal McCluskeyIt seems like no matter where you live, you don ’t have to look far to see your fellow Americans fighting over whose values, histories, and more will be taught in public schools. They’re fighting over Advanced Placement African American Studiesin Florida. Gender identityin Texas. Sex educationin New Jersey. Merit and equityin Virginia. Native American historyin South Dakota. Ethnic studiesin California. Andon it goes.The institution that was supposed to foster unity among diverse people – public schooling – is instead a constant battleground. Why? Because it leaves people with opposed values little o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 23, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
The Effect of Cannabis Laws on Access to Pain Medications among Commercially Insured Patients in the United States
Felipe Lozano-Rojas (University of Georgia), Amanda J. Abraham (University of Georgia), Sumedha Gupta (Indiana University –Purdue University Indianapolis), W. David Bradford (University of Georgia), The Effect of Cannabis Laws on Access to Pain Medications among Commercially Insured Patients in the United... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 19, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – January 15, 2023 – 80% of consumers want a clearer process for dealing with billing errors, USCDI update would add 20 more elements, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
News and Studies
ONC released the Draft United States Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI) v4 and its accompanying Standards Bulletin. USCDI is a standardized set of health data classes and data elements that enables data exch...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT 3M Allina Health Ayble Health Cameron Deemer Castell CenTrak CloudWave Cone Health digital pathology DocGo Dr. B DrFirst Edifecs Elevate Addiction Services Franciscan Health GE Healthcare Gradient Health H Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – December 31, 2022
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Measuring Indoor Air Ventilation on a Massive Scale. One of the biggest challenges of public health is measuring proxies for health (such as air quality or wastewater contents) without being obtrusive. Andy Oram spoke to Sam Molyneux at Poppy Health about their promising technology to measure air circulation in enclosed spaces through devices that are in...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 31, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: #HITsm Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Featured Health IT Job: Senior Network Administrator
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Network Administrator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New Directions Staffing and is in Savannah, Georgia.
Here’s a description of the position:
Our client is looking to fill a Senior Network Administrator role to:
Serve as a senior resource and technical lead in Information Services (IS) projects.
Provides support for day-to-day issues and requests escalated to the Network Administration Team.
Assists the Technology Director in the de...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 28, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Health IT Jobs Tags: Career and Jobs Healthcare IT Health IT Jobs Healthcare IT Jobs Job Seekers New Directions Staffing Senior Network Administration Source Type: blogs
Republicanism is bad for your health . . .
and might even kill you.Nancy Krieger and colleagues studied Covid-19 mortality rates and stress on hospital capacity in all 435 congressional districts, and its association with the political ideology of the relevant congresscritters and whether there was one-party control of state government. Abstract:MethodsWe analyzed observational cross-sectional data on COVID-19 mortality rates (age-standardized) and stress on hospital intensive care unit (ICU) capacity for all 435 US Congressional Districts (CDs) in a period of adult vaccine availability (April 2021 –March 2022). Political metrics comprised: (1) ideological ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Happy Birthday, Rose Wilder Lane
Timothy SandefurIt was on this day in 1886 that the journalist and authorRose Wilder Lane was born in a little house on the prairie that she and her mother, Laura Ingalls Wilder, would later make famous. A brilliant, moody, and independent spirit, Rose was eventually to become one of the most important voices of American liberty, and in 1943, publishedThe Discovery of Freedom, a pathbreaking book that helped spark the revival of interest in free markets and individualism in the later 20th century.Ironic, then, that she started out as a socialist.Lane grew up hating the life on the farm, and decided at an early age t...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 5, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Timothy Sandefur Source Type: blogs
Righting a Reproductive Wrong: A Statutory Tort Solution to Misrepresentation by Reproductive Tissue Providers
Yaniv Heled (Georgia State University), Hillel Y. Levin (University of Georgia), Timothy D. Lytton (Georgia State University), Liza Vertinsky (University of Maryland), Righting a Reproductive Wrong: A Statutory Tort Solution to Misrepresentation by Reproductive Tissue Providers, 60 Hous. L. Rev.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - December 2, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Dynamic Duo Degrees: NIGMS-Funded Programs Support M.D./D.V.M.-Ph.D. Training
Amelia Wilhelm. Credit: Courtesy of Amelia Wilhelm.
“Being able to ground your research in questions coming directly from your patients and their families is so meaningful and a huge part of why I’m interested in becoming a clinician-scientist,” says Amelia Wilhelm, an M.D.-Ph.D. student in the NIGMS-supported Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the University of Washington in Seattle. MSTPs prepare students to combine clinical practice and rigorous scientific research in their future careers.
Continuing the Family Tradition in Science
As a child of two scientists, Amelia was exposed to research and ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 30, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
The Republican Base
Donald Trump knows that he can ' t win an election if he alienates his neo-Nazi constituents. FromThe Guardian: Donald Trump repeatedly refused to disavow the outspoken antisemite and white supremacist Nick Fuentes after they spoke over dinner at his Mar-a-Lago resort, rejecting the advice from advisers over fears he might alienate a section of his base, two people familiar with the situation said. . . . Trump eschewed making outright disavowals of Fuentes, the people said, and none of the statements from the campaign or on his Truth Social account included criticism of Fuentes, despite efforts from advise...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 28, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Rise and Fall
As I believe I have mentioned, I am reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer. It ' s a cube of paper, and he spends a lot of pages on meticulous detail of large events, so it ' s a slog. I ' m about 1/3 of the way through. At this point Neville Chamberlain, who has a more than fair bid to be history ' s greatest fool, has gifted Czechoslovakia to Hitler in exchange for Hitler ' s assurance that he has no further territorial designs. The persecution of Germany ' s Jews is well advanced, with Jews having been barred from all professions, synagogues burned, businesses smashed, and property looted. Many ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 26, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
One Reason Republicans Lost the Senate
ConclusionPolitical pundits and Republican officials are trying to determine why the expected Republican Red Wave petered out. Surely, theoverturning of Roe vs. Wade and the resurgent salience of the issue of abortion played a significant role. Indeed, abortion was the number two issue affecting vote choiceaccording to exit polls. Notably, Republicans regardless of their stance on the 2020 election did relatively poorly in toss-up/competitive House races. It is likely that abortion played an important role in subduing a Red Wave.Other explanations for Republican underperformance simply blame an electoral map more favorable...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Emily Ekins, Jordan Gygi Source Type: blogs
