Growing controversy over role of FDA and Medicare in promoting anti-amyloid drugs given limited benefit, high cost, severe side-effects
The War Over Whether Medicare Should Pay For The New Anti-Alzheimer’s Drugs (Forbers):
The powerful Alzheimer’s Disease lobby is fighting a multi-billion-dollar battle on two fronts. It is quietly trying to limit restrictions the Food and Drug Administration puts on the use of new drugs aimed at slowing the progression of the brain disease. And it is publicly pressing Medicare to pay for the widespread use of the monoclonal antibodies FDA already has conditionally approved as well as others in the pipeline.
While the FDA approves drugs for use, it doesn’t decide who pays for them. And, for now, the Centers for Medica...
Source: SharpBrains - June 21, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Alzheimer's experts Alzheimer’s Disease Anti-Alzheimer’s Drugs Biogen brain swelling Eisai europe FDA lecanemab Medicare Source Type: blogs
A physician ’ s fight against insurance denials [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us in this compelling podcast episode as we dive into the world of insurance denials and the challenges faced by physicians and patients. Our guest, Jennifer Lycette, is not only a rural hematology-oncology physician but also a novelist and award-winning essayist. With her
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Air, Air, Everywhere, and Not a Breath Safe to Take
BY KIM BELLARD
If you live, as I do, anywhere in the Eastern half of the country, for the past week you’ve probably been thinking about something you’re not used to: wildfires. Sure, we’ve all been aware of how wildfires routinely plague the West Coast, particularly Oregon and Washington, but it’s novel for the East. So when the smoke from Canadian wildfires deluged cities through the East and Midwest, it came as kind of a shock.
For a day last week, New York City supposedly had the worst air quality in the world. The next day Philadelphia had that dubious distinction. The air quality index ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Non-Health Climate Change East Coast Kim Bellard West Coast Wildfires Source Type: blogs
What ’s in the Republican Economic Tax Package?
Adam N. MichelWays and Means Committee Republicans recently introduced theAmerican Families and Jobs Act, an economic tax package that addresses significant ongoing tax increases on domestic investment built into the 2017Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Most of the Republicans ’ major proposed changes in theAmericanFamilies and Jobs Act expire after 2025, worsening current tax uncertainty and obscuring the necessary reforms ’ fiscal cost.Other than permanence, theAmerican Families and Jobs Act could be significantly improved by adding Universal Savings Accounts for family savings flexibility and neutral cost recovery for current...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Adam N. Michel Source Type: blogs
MA for Tomorrow: Moving Beyond the Status Quo to Advance Concrete Policy Changes for the Future of Medicare Advantage
BY CECI CONNOLLY AND MICHAEL BAGEL
Medicare Advantage (MA) has passed the tipping point, delivering coverage and care to more than half of the senior population in the US. The Congressional Budget Office projects more than 60 percent of people 65 years and older will be in the program by 2030. As enrollment soars and interest in value-based health care grows, it is imperative policymakers modernize the program that is expected to cost $7.5 trillion over the next decade.
Rather than taking the standard Washington posture of declaring victory or defending the status quo, our provider-aligned, nonprofit member pla...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Ceci Connolly MA for Tomorrow Medicare Advantage Michael Bagel Source Type: blogs
Landed Gentry and Health
BY MIKE MAGEE
“The title of our lands is free, clear, and absolute, and every proprietor of the land is a princess his own domains, and lord paramount of the fee.”
Jesse Root, 1798, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
When it came to social hierarchy and family position, land was the ultimate measure of success and influence in Great Britain. But by the time of the American Revolution, our Founders were already fast at work dismantling Primogeniture (“the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Landed Gentry Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Unleashing rural opportunity
This report outlines government plans to support growth and prosperity in rural areas. It looks at investing in the rural economy and removing barriers to enterprise, delivering affordable housing and sustainable energy, and access to health and care services.ReportDepartment of Health and Social Care - publications (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - June 7, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Patient involvement, experience and feedback Primary and community care Source Type: blogs
Healthcare Cybersecurity Is Difficult to Maintain, How a Security Operations Center Can Help
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Healthcare has topped the list of most breached industries for the past 12 years — a dubious distinction. While hospitals and health systems are taking cybersecurity more seriously, the type of breaches and their severity continue to increase, as evidenced by the large rise in hacking incidents.
An in-house or outsourced security operations center can help level the playing field for hospitals through a total environment approach designed to detect and remediate threats before they cause hospital systems to crash and patient care to be impacted. (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Security and Privacy Cybersecurity Dark Web Monitoring DNS Domain Name System Event 4104 Extended Detectio Source Type: blogs
Investigating Bacteria ’ s CRISPR Defense System to Improve Human Health
Credit: Adrian Sanchez Gonzales.
The earliest Andrew Santiago-Frangos, Ph.D., remembers being interested in science was when he was about 8 years old. He was home sick and became engrossed in a children’s book that explained how some bacteria and viruses cause illness. To this day, his curiosity about bacteria persists, and he’s making discoveries about CRISPR—a system that helps bacteria defend against viruses—as a postdoctoral researcher and NIGMS-funded Maximizing Opportunities for Scientific and Academic Independent Careers (MOSAIC) scholar at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman.
Becoming a Biologist...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Bacteria Cellular Processes COVID-19 DNA Profiles Source Type: blogs
Health Equity In The AI And Digital Health Era: Promise or Peril?
This report estimated that poor health reduces global GDP by 15% each year.
On the flip side, equalizing healthcare access and quality has healthful effects on the economy at large. Digital technology could narrow the health equity gap by simplifying complex medical processes and removing travel barriers to healthcare access.
Figures indicate that underrepresented and/or disadvantaged (poor, rural, minority, women, LGBTQ, etc) groups have significantly less access to all the cutting-edge solutions digital health offers. Thus the gap is not only not closing, but it’s rather further widening right now.
W...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 30, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Personalized Medicine Telemedicine & Smartphones digital health literacy health equity digital health equity AI Source Type: blogs
Happy Memorial Day!!
Happy Memorial Day to all of you! At Healthcare IT Today we decided to take the day off from our regularly scheduled content to celebrate the national holiday in the US. We hope you were able to do the same and enjoy time with your family.
It’s really interesting to think about family and how many people through the years have an impact on your life today. I’m part of a family history site which recently sent me an email saying that 35 of my ancestors were buried in the city cemetery in this really small rural town. It’s amazing to think about the heritage of my family and all of those individuals...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 29, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Healthcare IT Memorial Day Personal Musings Source Type: blogs
Pear Suite Empowers Community Health Workers to Improve Health in Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities
$2.5 Million in Seed Funding Expands Care Navigation Software and Partnerships with a Focus on Addressing Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) with Cultural Competency
Pear Suite, a digital health company working to empower community health workers (CHWs) and better address the social determinants of health (SDOH), today announced its recently closed funding round. The $2.5 million in seed funding will enable CHWs to better act on SDOH data as well as expand the company’s efforts within the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. The investment round was led by Mucker Capital, Impact Engine, American Hea...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 25, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AAPI AAPI Community AHA Social Impact Fund AI American Heart Association American Heart Association’s Social Impact Fund Ashley Steward Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Atento Capital Ca Source Type: blogs
How RPM Can Reduce AI ’s Bias Problem & Improve Health Equity
The following is a guest article by Arnaud Rosier, PhD, Founder and CEO at Implicity
Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most promising breakthrough technologies of the modern healthcare era, yet it also has the potential to be one of the most dangerous. AI algorithms that are trained on limited or poorly representative data sets can exhibit signs of bias in their results, skewing decision-making and possibly leading to ethnic, gender, and social discrimination and other unintentional consequences for the patients they serve.
Unfortunately, research shows that bias is already creeping into the nascent field of AI an...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - May 19, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Academic Medical Center Ai Algorithm AI bias AMC Arnaud Rosier PhD Artificial Intelligence Dr. Arnaud Rosier HCP Source Type: blogs
Tennessee Becomes the Latest State to Remove Barriers to Assistant Physicians
Jeffrey A. SingerTennessee Governor Bill Lee (R) signedHB 1311 into law onMay 17, creating the new health care practitioner category called “graduate physicians.” Tennessee now joins Missouri, Arizona, Arkansas, Utah, Kansas, Louisiana, and Idaho in removing barriers that prevent medical school graduates who have not landed a residency position from providing primary care services to patients and honing their knowledge and experien ce while licensed primary care physicians supervise them.With a large, medically underserved rural population, Missouri was the first state to launch a new licensure category in 2017: as...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 18, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Rural mental health
In this report, MPs express concern about how isolation, poor public transport and a relative lack of digital connectivity have contributed to poor mental health outcomes for all categories of people across rural communities in England, but especially among farm workers and vets. It calls for greater joined-up planning and action from the government to address the issue.ReportEnvironment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - May 18, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Mental health Source Type: blogs
