Health Populi

JULY 26, 2022

Today we review the various viewpoints on Amazon’s announced acquisition of One Medical (ONEM, aka 1life Healthcare) which has been a huge story in both health care trade publications, business news, and mainstream media outlets. Welcome to Day 2 of The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S., my week-long update of the American retail health/care ecosystem weaving the latest updates from the market and implications and import for health care consumers.

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Minority Nurse

JULY 29, 2022

Nurses could have never predicted the upheaval and disruption that COVID brought to everything they considered normal in their work and personal lives. But for Anthony Pho, PhD, MPH, ANP-C , a Propel postdoctoral scholar for The PRIDE Study at the Stanford University School of Medicine , the pandemic’s chaos brought a real silver lining. Pho , who worked in New York City in the beginning of the pandemic, says the nursing community and his nursing work gave him a purpose through a distinc

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Medical Gas Compliance

JULY 28, 2022

Every facility manager faces different challenges, and although we typically share similar goals, some facilities get stuck with high fixed expenditures, while others have trouble finding the most efficient HVAC system for their building's needs. Preventive maintenance that gets ignored can cause repairs to be put on hold. Deferred maintenance - waiting for future budgets or funds to become available - can create costly consequences and increase the chances of significant problems down the road.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 29, 2022

Workplace violence has become a hot topic in today’s discourse; however, workplace violence is not just headline fodder for media outlets. The trend is well-documented and especially felt by the healthcare industry which continues to experience the brunt after the onslaught of COVID-19. In 2018, 73% of all nonfatal workplace violence incidents involved healthcare workers.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

I’ve returned to the U.S. for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). Work and life slow down in Europe in July and August, giving us the opportunity to return to our U.S. home base, reunite with friends and family, and re-join life and living this side of the Atlantic.

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KevinMD.com

JULY 28, 2022

There’s a particular bit of conversation I hope never to hear when my doctors are discussing surgery or testing. Not the details of the procedure. Not the possible outcome. Not the pain (and let’s be real, we all know “some discomfort” is actually “pain”). It’s the post-op directions that pose a conundrum: “You’ll need someone Read more… There’s no one to drive your patient home originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Health Populi

JULY 27, 2022

Apple wants to be your “intelligent guardian for health,” based on a 60-page paper shepherded by Jeff Williams, the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Published last week, the paper is one of the big signals trumpeted this U.S. summer marked by the BA.5 omicron subvariant of SARS-CoV-2, inflation pressures on our household budgets, social/political tensions, and hot-hot weather.

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Healthcare Law Insights blog

JULY 29, 2022

On July 26, 2022, Judge Jeremy Kernodle of the Eastern District of Texas affirmed that certain parts of the Interim Final Rule Part II implementing the No Surprises Act (the Act) were invalid. This ruling is nearly identical to Judge Kernodle’s February decision in Texas Medical Association & Corley v. US Dept. of Health and Human Services. This decision vacated a portion of the Interim Final Rule that required arbitrators to give more weight to the out-of-network rate, including what is cal

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2022

“Tech giants are the primary forces driving digital transformation forward,” and this is especially the case for health care systems re-imagining how health care services are delivered and “consumed.” This observation comes from a new report, Tech Giants in Healthcare , written by four European-based experts in healthcare and bioethics.

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