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Health and Care Act 2022: combined impact assessments
Department of Health and Social Care -The Health and Care Act received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022. This primary legislation aims to build on the NHS ’s own proposals for reform to make the health and care system less bureaucratic, more accountable and more integrated in the wake of coronavirus. These documents assess the impact of the legislation.Department of Health and Social Care - publications
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 4, 2022 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Regulation, governance and accountability Source Type: blogs
Addressing the Mental Health Crisis in Kids: Collaboration and Technology Are Key
The following is a guest article by Serrah Linares, Vice President of Partner Sales at Change Healthcare, and Rachel Mack Robinson, Founder and President at DotCom Therapy.
Children in America were increasingly struggling with mental health before COVID-19, but the pandemic compounded an already growing crisis. Today in the U.S., nearly one in five children experience a mental health disorder. What’s just as alarming is that for every five children with a mental health disorder, only one will receive treatment.
In October 2021, leading pediatric healthcare associations declared a national emergency in child and adolescen...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 19, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Clinical Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AAP American Academy oF Pediatrics API behavioral health CARES Act Change Healthcare CHIP Coronavirus Aid Source Type: blogs
U.S. weighs crackdown on experiments that could make viruses more dangerous
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Source: ScienceNOW - October 19, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –1st October, 2022.
This article details information required for integration into EHRs to build personalized treatment plans and develop successful SDOH programs that provide resources and support for patients in need. In addition, successful SDOH programs implemented by Kaiser Permanente and Boston Medical Center showcase how supporting clinicians with real-time SDOH data can lead to patient-centric care. Create a 360-Degree Patient View Through TechnologyThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)indicatesthat the “collection, documentation, reporting, access, and use of SDOH data … can be used t...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - October 1, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –17th September, 2022.
This study adds to the evidence showing that expanded access to these services could have a longer-term positive impact if continued.”Roughly 1 in 8 beneficiaries in the pandemic group received OUD-related telehealth services compared with 1 in 800 in the prepandemic group, the research revealed. Access to telehealth services was associated with better treatment retention and lower risk of medically treated overdose in the pandemic group compared to those not receiving telehealth services.-----https://healthimaging.com/topics/management/education-training/ai-deterring-students-pursuing-radiologyConcerns about the future ...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Weekly Overseas Health IT Links –10th September, 2022.
This article is adapted fromVoices in the Code: A Story About People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made,out Sept. 8 from Russell Sage Foundation Press.In May 2021, I got a call I never expected. I was working on abook about A.I. ethics, focused on the algorithm that gives out kidneys to transplant patients in the United States. Darren Stewart —a data scientist from UNOS, the nonprofit that runs the kidney allocation process—was calling to get my take: How many decimal places should they include when calculating each patient’s allocation score? The score is an incredibly important number, given it determines w...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - September 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Prospective Case-control Study of Contact Tracing Speed for Emergency Department-based Contact Tracers
Introduction: In Snohomish County, WA, the time from obtaining a positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) test and initiating contact tracing is 4-6 days. We tested whether emergency department (ED)-based contact tracing reduces time to initiation and completion of contact tracing investigations. Methods: All eligible coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-positive patients were offered enrollment in this prospective case-control study. Contact tracers were present in the ED from 7 AM to 2 AM for 60 consecutive days. Tracers conducted interviews using the Washington State Department of Health...
Source: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine - August 25, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Source Type: research
COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Arkansas public K-12 school teachers and staff
Vaccine. 2022 Aug 2:S0264-410X(22)00942-2. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.07.045. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTIn December 2020, the first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines received emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To strategically allocate the limited availability of COVID-19 vaccines, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) developed a phased approach for eligibility that prioritized certain population groups that were more vulnerable to infection and severe outcomes. Public K-12 teachers and staff were included in Phase 1b. The Arkansas Department of Healt...
Source: Vaccine - August 14, 2022 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michael J Cima Donald McCormick Austin Porter Namvar Zohoori Scott Alsbrook Jos é R Romero Source Type: research
What to Do If Your Child Gets COVID-19 Between Shots
In June, children as young as six months finally became eligible for COVID-19 vaccines when infant- and toddler-sized options from Pfizer and Moderna were authorized. But now that the highly contagious BA.5 Omicron subvariant is driving increased transmission around the country, some children who have started their vaccination course may get infected before they can complete it.
This is particularly true for children ages six months to four years old who are receiving the Pfizer vaccine, which requires three doses—with the third dose coming two months after the second. Kids ages six months to five years old who get M...
Source: TIME: Health - August 1, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Betsy Ladyzhets Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Updated Covid-19 booster shots could be available in early fall
Moderna and Pfizer booster shots updated to target new coronavirus variants are expected to be available in early fall, the US Department of Health and Human Services said Friday.
Source: CNN.com - Health - July 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Child Care Stress Among Health Care Workers Associated With Burnout, Intent to Reduce Hours
Health care workers who reported experiencing high levels of stress about child care during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were more likely to report anxiety, depression, and burnout compared with those without child care stress, according to areport published today inJAMA Network Open. Health care workers experiencing such stress were also more likely to report an intent to reduce their hours or leave their position than those without child care stress.“Since the start of the pandemic, 1 in 5 [health care workers] has quit their job according to a poll conducted in September 2021,” wrote Elizabeth M. Harry,...
Source: Psychiatr News - July 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Tags: burnout child care stress Coping with COVID survey COVID-19 depression ethnicity health care workers JAMA Network Open leave job pandemic race reduce hours women Source Type: research
Draft bill would ban CDC, NIH from funding lab research in China
A proposal moving through Congress to bar the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from funding research laboratories in China is sparking concern among scientists. If signed into law, the measure could cut off millions of dollars of U.S. funds flowing to collaborative research projects in several areas, including HIV/AIDS, cancer, mental health, and flu surveillance.
The proposed ban, part of a 2023 spending bill approved by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations on 30 June, grew out of suspicions among some lawmakers, so far unsupported b...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 12, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
New head of U.S. aid program for HIV/AIDS vows to refocus attention on the other, ‘silent’ pandemic
On 13 June, John Nkengasong, 58, was appointed the first African-born head of the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that helps more than 50 countries respond to their HIV/AIDS epidemics. Nkengasong, who grew up in Cameroon and became a U.S. citizen in 2007, previously ran the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
PEPFAR is credited with helping save more than 20 million lives since its inception in 2003. It had a $10.7 billion budget in 2021, more than half of it spent on HIV treatment and care. The agency has relied on an acting director since Deborah Birx...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - July 5, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
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Citing the coronavirus pandemic’s high death toll and other grim U.S. health
indicators, the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a National Public Health
System issues recommendations for action to be led by Department of Health
and Human Services and Congress
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Newsroom - June 21, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
