The New Deal and Recovery, Part 27: Deposit Insurance
ConclusionPart 27: Deposit Insurance_____________________[1] To this list we might add a fourth item, noted by Golembe in a subsequentinterview, to wit: that the deposit " insurance " provided for by the 1933 Banking Act wasn ' t really insurance at all. Unlike genuine insurance policies, it covers depositors for losses regardless of whether the losses were due to recklessness on their or their banks ' part. And unlike genuine insurance funds, the FDIC ' s insurance " fund " is an accounting fiction, the truth being that the " premiums " it collects from banks go into the federal government ' s general coffers. " The gover...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 28, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Telemedicine in the opioid crisis: a game-changer threatened by DEA regulations
In March 2020, I was directing a federally qualified health center in rural New Mexico when the first flashover of COVID ripped through the state. In two days, the clinics transitioned from an entirely in-person model to a near-total remote model. The transformation was raw and unplanned, trialing mediocre communications platforms in real-time and stumbling
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Telemedicine in the opioid crisis: a game-changer threatened by DEA regulations originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Julie Craig, MD Tags: Meds Medications Pain Management Source Type: blogs
From rural communities to underserved populations: How telemedicine is bridging health care gaps
Telemedicine, the practice of delivering health care services remotely using technology, has become increasingly popular in recent years. The potential for reduced health care costs, improved efficiency, and greater accessibility for patients and providers alike have driven its adoption. In this article, we will investigate the economic benefits of telemedicine, examining its impact on health
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From rural communities to underserved populations: How telemedicine is bridging health care gaps originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Harvey Castro, MD, MBA Tags: Physician Health IT Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: St. Patrick School
Colleen HroncichHappy St. Patrick ’s Day!It seemed fitting to highlight St. Patrick School today, but there are nearly 100 American schools named after the 5th century bishop who is the patron saint of Ireland. After a little digging, I foundSt. Patrick School in Carleton, Michigan, which stood out for having moved to a classical education model this year.The transition started several years ago, shortly after Carl Lenze became principal. The school, which has been in the rural community for 147 years, was struggling with enrollment. Officials in the archdiocese suggested they consider adopting a ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Death in Childbirth
I taught a course last year in global maternal mortality so I have some idea of what I ' m talking about here. Childbirth is dangerous for women because, for one thing, thanks to evolution giving us big brains, the baby ' s head is too big for the birth canal. However, there are other complications of pregnancy that can occur. In Europe in the 19th Century, as it became common for women to give birth in hospitals, infectious disease killed a lot of mothers, thanks to the doctors transferring pathogens on their unwashed hands and unsterile instruments. Many a family was bereaved by maternal death, but it has become rare in ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Specter of Harm in Contemporary Social Justice Activism
Erec SmithThe specter of harm has been a salient presence in the American culture wars, especially when it comes to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Harm, loosely defined, has been the raison d ’etre for many social justice demands, and this includes the deemphasis (at best) of academic freedom. Stacy Hawkins of Princeton’s School of Law cites harm as the reason why, sometimes, DEI initiatives trump academic freedom. On its surface, I am inclined to agree with Hawkins; some statements are beyond the pale and should not be tolerated, especially when it has unproductive effects on the workplace. However,...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 17, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Erec Smith Source Type: blogs
DEA Pumps the Brakes on Congress ’ Move to Increase Access to Addiction Treatment
Jeffrey A. SingerIn the latest episode of “Cops Practicing Medicine, ” the Drug Enforcement Administration announced new telehealthguidelines for patients with substance use disorder receiving medication ‐assisted treatment (MAT) with buprenorphine. Last December, Congress passed theMainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act with bipartisan support. The actremoved the onerous rules and regulations surrounding the “X waiver” that the DEA required health care practitioners to obtain if they wanted to treat addiction with buprenorphine. These requirements deterred many health care providers from offering medicat...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 15, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery - 13th March 2023 - Global health
Four recent papers you might be interested to know about:Experiences of families and health professionals along the care continuum for low-birth weight neonates: A constructivist grounded theory study. Study conducted in Ghana.Fortified balanced energy-protein supplementation during pregnancy and lactation and infant growth in rural Burkina Faso: A 2 x 2 factorial individually randomized controlled trial.World Health Organization: Strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health: a guide for country programme managers. WHO publication, published in December 2022.Eff...
Source: Browsing - March 13, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
Bonus Features – March 12, 2023 – 87% of docs used telemedicine in 2021, 65% of healthcare orgs collect more trivial data once they adopt the cloud, 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.
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Three Democratic Senators have introduced legislation to expand protections for Americans’ personal health data privacy. Sponsored by Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), and Mazie Hirono (Hawaii),...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 12, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Accenture ACCESS Family Care Amy Klobuchar Anne Walker ATA Atropos Health Avi Mukherjee Blancco Technology Group Bright.md Cardinal Health CLEAR Converged Outreach COTA CRIP Crossroads Treat Source Type: blogs
Ecology Rescued the AMA and Medical Professionalism Beginning in 1870. Will technology and science rescue the profession once again?
BY MIKE MAGEE
Medicine does not exist in a vacuum. The trusting relationships that underpin it function within an ever-changing environment of shifting social determinants. This is not new, nor surprising.
Consider for example the results of their 1851 survey of 12,400 men from the eight leading U.S. colleges had to be shocking. The AMA was only four years old at the time and being forced to acknowledge a significant lack of public interest in a physician’s services. This in turn had caused the best and the brightest to choose other professions. There it was in black and white. Of those surveyed, 26% planned to pur...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy AMA Ecology Mayo Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
I Love Explaining Medical Things
BY HANS DUVEFELT
A lot of people don’t know much about how the body works. One of my jobs as a physician is to explain how things work in order to empower my patient to choose how to deal with it when the body isn’t working right.
On my blog I have written about this many times, for example in the 2010 post GUY TALK:
Guy Talk
One of the first challenges I faced as a foreign doctor from an urban background practicing in a small town in this country was finding the right way to explain medical issues to my male patients. They were farmers and fishermen without much experience with illness, medications or medi...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Guy Talk Hans Duvefelt Rural medicine Source Type: blogs
As I was saying
I seldom link to the NYT (or, as Atrios calls it, " that f.ing newspaper) because it ' s paywalled. But I believe you get three free reads a month, and in any case I ' m going to pull the good stuff fromKrugthulu ' s latest.It ' s about this:Many House Republicans arereportedly listening to Russell Vought, Donald Trump ’s former budget director, who has a new think tank and has been circulating abudget proposal titled “A Commitment to End Woke and Weaponized Government,” which purports to show a way to balance the budget without touching Medicare and Social Security. The document uses the word “woke” 77 tim...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 25, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Last in Line: Hospitals Brace for a Chilly 2023
BY JEFF GOLDSMITH
As they emerge from the COVID pandemic, US hospitals have a terrible case of Long COVID. They experienced the worst financial performance in 2022 in this analyst’s 47 year memory. As the nation recovers from the worst inflation in forty years, hospitals will find themselves locked in conflict with health insurers over contract renewals that would reset their rates to the actual delivered cost of care. “Last in line” in the US battle with inflation, hospitals will be exposed to public criticism when they attempt to recover from pandemic-induced financial losses.
Hospital payment rates f...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 23, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy The Business of Health Care Clinician Shortage COVID-19 Inflation Jeff Goldsmith Long Covid National Health Service Source Type: blogs
Propelling Rare Disease Research for More Than 50 Years
Vials of samples from the NIGMS HGCR. Credit: Coriell Institute for Medical Research.
The year 2022 marked 50 years since the creation of the NIGMS Human Genetic Cell Repository (HGCR) at the Coriell Institute for Medical Research in Camden, New Jersey. The NIGMS HGCR consists of cell lines and DNA samples with a focus on those from people with rare, heritable diseases. “Many rare diseases now have treatments because of the samples in the NIGMS HGCR,” says Nahid Turan, Ph.D., Coriell’s chief biobanking officer and co-principal investigator of the NIGMS HGCR. She gives the example of a rare disease advocacy group wh...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Genes Injury and Illness Diseases Genomics Scientific Process Source Type: blogs
Lessons From a Ransomware Attack: The Importance of Partnership & Collaboration
The following is a guest article by John Gaede, Director of Information Systems at Sky Lakes Medical Center.
Imagine a rural business is the victim of a cyberattack. A nefarious person or group convinces an unsuspecting employee to open an email promising a bonus. Within 12 hours, every piece of technology connected to that network, and every process needed to conduct daily operations, is paralyzed.
Now imagine that business is a hospital. It serves 80,000 people and it’s the only one within 10,000 square miles. Add to the scenario a global pandemic that is steadily ravaging the nation’s healthcare system. On October...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops Security and Privacy 3M 3M Health Information Systems 3M HIS Abbadox Cohesity Cyberattacks Cybersecurity Electromek Diagnostic System FBI’s Source Type: blogs
