Weekly Roundup – February 3, 2024
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.
How to Balance Innovation and Digital Transformation With Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to weigh in on this critical topic. Advice included implement a thorough solution design process, engage with legal and compliance teams as stakeholders in the design process, and establish a culture of transparen...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 3, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Patenting Strategies by Pharmaceutical Companies: A Lawful Use of the Patent System or an Abusive Conduct?
Olga Gurgula (Brunel University London), Patenting Strategies by Pharmaceutical Companies: A Lawful Use of the Patent System or an Abusive Conduct? (A Research Agenda for Patent Law, Bonadio and Shemtov eds.) (2023): To delay generic competition, pharmaceutical companies have been... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 3, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Balancing Innovation and Digital Transformation with Regulatory Compliance and Patient Safety
As we continue to push the world of healthcare forward with innovation and digital transformations, it’s important to remember to do so safely. All of our progress is for naught if we can’t use any of it without breaking regulations or if it puts our patient’s safety at risk. This leaves us with one very important question. How can professionals in Health IT foster innovation and drive digital transformation within healthcare organizations while balancing the need for regulatory compliance and patient safety?
We reached out to our incredible Healthcare IT Today Community to get their answers to this ques...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 2, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Regulations Authenticx Caryn Hewitt CenTrak Costas Boussios Digital Transformation Healthcare Compliance Healthcare Digital Transformation Healthcare Innovation Healthcare Regulati Source Type: blogs
Medical care, medical costs
Thanks to
the Affordable Care Act, something like 90% of Americans have some form of
health insurance. Great news! That means we can all afford the medical services
we need and nobody has to go broke because they get sick or are injured in a
car crash or by somebody exercising their Second Amendment rights! Err, no. Sadly
it does not mean that. In the first place, for the 50% of people who get their
insurance through employment, it ’s costing them more and more for the premiums –
by three times the rate of inflation, since 1999. With that, plus
deductibles, copays, and payment denials by in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 2, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Gender Equality in Health Care: Reenvisioning CEDAW General Recommendation 24
Joanna N. Erdman (Dalhousie University), Mariana Prandini Assis (The New School), Gender Equality in Health Care: Reenvisioning CEDAW General Recommendation 24 (Frontiers of Gender Equality: Transnational Legal Perspectives, Rebecca J. Cook ed.) (2023): Article 12 of the Convention on the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 2, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Too much fawning over Len Schaeffer?
By MATTHEW HOLT
There’s a lot of strum & dangst about the uptick in system utilization that has boosted hospital profits and hit Humana and United’s bottom line (But not so much Elevance’s). Kevin O’ Leary over at Health Tech Nerds brought this up today and I was reminded of this piece I wrote in 2006. And a big issue was, how much understanding and control do insurers have over the utilization in (and out of) their networks. So take a look at this piece and particularly, given the issues at the BUCAHs and at smaller players like Agilon, consider how much insurers actually know about spending...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health insurers Len Schaeffer Medicare Advantage Oldies Utilization Source Type: blogs
Developing a Reproductive Justice Approach to Regulating Formal and Informal Sperm Donation
Naomi Cahn (University of Virginia), Sonia M. Suter (The George Washington University), Developing a Reproductive Justice Approach to Regulating Formal and Informal Sperm Donation (Va. Pub. L. and Legal Theory Rsch. Paper No. 2023-78) (2023): This essay explores the regulation... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Can Generative AI Improve Health Care Relationships?
By MIKE MAGEE
“What exactly does it mean to augment clinical judgement…?”
That’s the question that Stanford Law professor, Michelle Mello, asked in the second paragraph of a May, 2023 article in JAMA exploring the medical legal boundaries of large language model (LLM) generative AI.
This cogent question triggered unease among the nation’s academic and clinical medical leaders who live in constant fear of being financially (and more important, psychically) assaulted for harming patients who have entrusted themselves to their care.
That prescient article came out just one month before news leaked about ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 30, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech AI Generative AI LLMs Mike Magee Patient-Physician Relationship Source Type: blogs
The Effects of the Dobbs Decision on Fertility
Discussion Paper No. 16608) (2023): The U.S. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 30, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Drug Paraphernalia Laws Undermine Harm Reduction
Jeffrey A. Singer (Cato Institute), Sophia Heimowitz (R Street Institute), Drug Paraphernalia Laws Undermine Harm Reduction (Cato Inst. Pol ’y Analysis No. 929) (2022): Every state except Alaska has laws that criminalize the possession and/or sale of paraphernalia for the consumption... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 29, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Reflections on the Dumpster
Many sane people are baffled by the veneration of the Trump cultists for such a repulsive, worthless excuse for a human being. I ' m going to say what we aren ' t supposed to say. The answer is obvious: the characteristics of the Orange Shitpile that are most loathsome are exactly what they like about him. He gives not just permission, but affirmation, to the base impulses of people who aren ' t very smart and whose basic nature is selfishness, continual anger, and hatred.People who are ignorant, lack critical thinking skills, and whose minds are boxed in by prejudice and bigotry can ' t win arguments with facts and logic,...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 27, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Health IT Leadership ’ s Role in Patient Data Security and Privacy
Moving towards an entirely digital world of healthcare can be very appealing in a lot of ways. Having everything digital means better interoperability, increased patient access, and more. However, with the ever-increasing cybersecurity threats and attacks moving more digital can also be very scary. And it is in these uncertain and scary times that people turn to their leaders for guidance. This leaves us with the big question of what role Health IT leadership plays in ensuring the security and privacy of patient data, and what strategies can leaders employ to address emerging cybersecurity threats.
We reached out to some f...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 26, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Security and Privacy Caryn Hewitt CenTrak Chris Toth Cybersecurity Edifecs hc1 Insights Health IT Leadership Healthcare Leadership John Johnson Ordr patient data Patient Dat Source Type: blogs
The Business Case for a Biosimilar Company to Bring a Copy of Levemir to Market
My readers may recall that in November 2023, I blogged that Novo Nordisk announced it plans to retire (stop making) its first " Lantus killer " known as Levemir (insulin detemir injection) in the U.S. in 2024 (catch my post at https://blog.sstrumello.com/2023/11/novo-nordisk-to-discontinue-levemir-in.html for more). At the time I learned of the announcement, I was on vacation in Amsterdam, so I just made a note of the development and blogged about it a few weeks later upon my return.Like other patients my age, I have endured the company ' s previous insulin " retirements " . Novo Nordisk ' s time-frame for withdr...
Source: Scott's Web Log - January 25, 2024 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2024 Biosimilar Levemir Novo Nordisk PBM Source Type: blogs
Uncovering the real story behind opioid prescriptions and deaths
As a non-clinician patient advocate and health care writer, I am frequently reminded of a quotation attributed to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain): “Figures don’t lie. But liars figure.” I am also aware of a second quotation from economist Ronald H Coase: “If you torture the data for long enough, it will confess to anything.” I find
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Uncovering the real story behind opioid prescriptions and deaths originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 25, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard A. Lawhern, PhD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Who Owns Our Dead Bodies: A Critical Socio-Legal Study
Arseny Shevelev, Georgy Shevelev, Who Owns Our Dead Bodies: A Critical Socio-Legal Study, Tex. Int ’l L.J. (2023): We are living in a challenging era, when people are being deprived of the rights to their bodies that they have won through... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 24, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
