By Roxy Nacu – From delayed or avoided healthcare procedures to lost insurance coverage, COVID-19 has affected almost every aspect of our lives. The primary effects have been well documented, and the secondary effects will present transformational challenges to the healthcare system.
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By Art Gross – This week in HIPAA news we are shining a light on two rules that display the spectrum of ‘bending’ from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. The first, showing flexibility, announced that penalties with regard to HIPAA, as it pertains to the COVID-19 vaccination…
By Marcia Buck, PharmD FCCP FPPAG BCPPS & M. Shawn McFarland, PharmD FCCP BCACP – Nearly 75% of primary care visits involve medication prescribing. It’s how we treat most conditions. But we still haven’t managed to get the medications right.
By Liz Szabo – As an emergency physician, Dr. Eugenia South was in the first group of people to receive a covid vaccine. She received her second dose even before President Joe Biden. Yet South said she’s in no rush to throw away her face mask.
By Tom Knight – As we’ve seen with HIV medications, limited supplies of life-saving drugs lead to black-market demand. Healthcare leaders need to boost their defenses against drug diversion — any activity that removes a prescription medication from its intended patient use.
By Brittney Boakye, Allison Dennis, Kevin Chaney, Tracy Okubo & Teresa Zayas Cabán – Does the neighborhood I live in affect my health? How am I going to be able to see the specialist without a car? Can I share blood pressure and blood sugar readings I take at home with my doctor so she can monitor how I’m doing?
New On Demand Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist: With guest Dr. Christy Ford Chapin, Ph.D., Associate Professor Department of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County and author of Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System…
By Will Stone – As states await the promise of a renewed federal pandemic response and expand the number of Americans who qualify for a shot, some governors are trying to scale up their covid vaccine operations — and smooth out the kinks — with the help of the private sector.
By Luke Smith – In the wake of COVID-19, advancements in healthcare tech allowed us to shift to many healthcare processes to a virtual environment. Telehealth took off and with it came greater flexibility in how and where patients could receive treatment. Now, some of that same technology is being applied to the fight against child abuse.