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Navigating organizational dysfunction: lessons from Boeing
If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going—at one time, public opinion of an engineering company run by engineers. Today, perception is a little different. The multinational conglomerate and defense contractor owns some staggering recent mishaps—safety systems, door plugs, unclear technical issues. A disconnect between senior management and hands-on employees is reported. Analysts consider recent events Read more… Navigating organizational dysfunction: lessons from Boeing originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 13, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Medicine is not apolitical: Your vote dictates your ability to practice medicine
It’s Wednesday, March 6th, 2024. The day after Super Tuesday. I am sitting in the library, taking a break from writing a final paper for my health economics class, when I see a Politico article: “San Francisco’s Proposition F passed.” 3,000 miles away from my hometown and my medical school, all I can think about Read more… Medicine is not apolitical: Your vote dictates your ability to practice medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 11, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

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Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 10, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Laura Conrad, Megan Lee, Zainab Okolo Source Type: blogs

Case Western Reserve University ’s Law-Medicine Center Presents Judicial Review of Public Health Laws: From Deference to Indifference with Wendy E. Parmet
.; 12:00PM – 1:00PM on Tuesday, April 16th, 2024. The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum presents Judicial Review... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 9, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Healthy Together Acquires Kinsa Health to Build AI Illness Forecasting & Expand into New Markets
Healthy Together, a leading health technology company specializing in Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions for State-level Health & Human Services programs, is excited to announce the successful acquisition of Kinsa Health, a powerful and robust AI platform that provides predictive insights for pharmaceutical companies, retailers, illness product companies, public health agencies, hospital systems, and communities. The acquisition advances Healthy Together’s mission to improve collective health and make government and enterprises more efficient. By integrating Kinsa’s AI illness forecasting engine into He...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 5, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Healthy Together Inder Singh Jared Allgood Kinsa Health Source Type: blogs

Wednesday Bible Study: A public health lesson
Psalm 90 is attributed to Moses. At least David might have existed, although he certainly did not write the psalms attributed to him. Moses is an entirely fictitious character. We know for a fact that the Egyptian captivity and the exodus never happened. But I ' ll give the writer this much credit -- the human lifespan of 70 years was probably pretty accurate at the time, in the sense that it was about the longest people could hope to live. You may recall that in Genesis 6:3 God says the human lifespan will be 120 years, and that many of the characters in Genesis lived for hundreds of years. However, life expectancy -...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 3, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

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Momentum at the state level to increase investment in primary care should be coupled with federal leadership to create national consistency.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 3, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Jordan Goldberg, Corinne Lewis, Jennifer Lyons, Cynthia Summers, Lisa Dulsky Watkins Source Type: blogs

Ensuring Precision in Patient Identity: Modern Approaches to Master Data Management
The government and many healthcare leaders are pushing for more interoperability and data sharing in healthcare.  While this is great and has the potential to make a really big impact for good on the lives of patients and potentially costs, one thing that is often missed in this discussion is high quality patient identification.  This is a problem that’s made worse by not having a national patient identifier, but let’s set that topic aside for a moment and recognize that even with a national patient identifier, patient identification and patient matching is still going to be a massive challenge. The depth of ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops EMPI Health Data Sharing Health Information Exchange Healthcare Scene Featured Healthix HIE HIEs HIMSS HIMSS 2024 HIMSS24 National Patient Identifie Source Type: blogs

Agreement or Other International Instrument on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Submitted to Dept of Health & Human Resources
Srividhya Ragavan (Texas A&M University), Agreement or Other International Instrument on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response Submitted to Dept of Health& Human Resources (Tex. A&M U. Sch. L. Legal Stud. Rsch. Paper) (2024): Dealing with public health as a... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 2, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Country life
As I may have mentioned from time to time, I live in a small town, a farming community. Like a lot of people here, I heat my house with wood. We do it because we can, basically. There are only three retail businesses in town: a liquor store, a seamstress (yes) and a chainsaw shop. In my case, between my own wooded property, and my neighbor who owns extensive forest land and is constantly having trees fall down across his roads, I get all the firewood I need by dint of my own efforts.  I pretty much exclusively rely on deadfall, unless for some reason we ' re removing a tree anyway, so I ' m not angering the ents....
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 30, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs

It ’ s Time to Get Patient Addresses Straight
Amazing how a trivial detail such as a postal address can cause so many headaches and so much waste. But in health care, a lack of address standardization is a major barrier to important aspects of care, including the sharing of patient records demanded by our trend to value-based care. Part of the problem is provider laziness, because the US postal service offers a standard addressing process called CASS, and several services draw on it to ensure the correct use of abbreviations, ZIP codes, and other elements of the address. But many providers just enter into the databases and EHRs whatever the patient put down on a form ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 29, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Ambulatory Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Interoperability IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations Brent Francom CASS Healthcare APIs Healthcare Standards Mailing Address Standards ONC Project Source Type: blogs

Health care waste exposed [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Watch on YouTube. Catch up on old episodes! We are joined by Edward Hoffer, an internal medicine physician, to explore the alarming levels of waste plaguing the U.S. health care system. Together, we shine a light on the various culprits behind this inefficiency, ranging from unnecessary treatments to bloated Read more… Health care waste exposed [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs

Revisiting Involuntary Isolation as a Tuberculosis Control Measure in the Post-Pandemic Era
Elizabeth Bonomo (University of Maryland), Revisiting Involuntary Isolation as a Tuberculosis Control Measure in the Post-Pandemic Era (2024): Despite emerging scientific evidence demonstrating that the public health benefit of isolating people with tuberculosis (TB) is low, state laws empowering health... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 28, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

Employers and the Privatization of Public Health
Sharona Hoffman (Case Western Reserve University School of Law), Employers and the Privatization of Public Health, 65 B.C. L. Rev. (2024): This Article focuses on the role of employers in public health and argues that they constitute increasingly important actors... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 25, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs

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Commonwealth Fund President Joe Betancourt recounts his experiences helping Spanish-speaking patients at Mass General Hospital when the COVID-19 pandemic began.        (Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - March 20, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Joseph R. Betancourt Source Type: blogs