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January 9, 2019 | New York Times
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration has stopped routine food safety inspections of seafood, fruits, vegetables and many other foods at high risk of contamination because of the federal government’s shutdown, Dr. Scott Gottlieb,...
January 8, 2019 | WBUR News
Rachel Martin talks to Kerry Hawk-Lessard of Native American Lifelines, who explains how her group will run out of money to pay for health services, if the government shutdown persists.
January 8, 2019 | Kaiser Health News
Rural hospitals close when they don’t have enough paying patients to care for, but they’re also dinged when the same patients show up over and over again. That puts outlying medical facilities in the precarious position of needing to avoid...
January 8, 2019 | Kaiser Family Foundation
Medicaid, the provider of health insurance coverage for about one in five Americans and the largest payer for long-term care services in the community and nursing homes, continues to be a key part of health policy debates at the federal...
January 8, 2019 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
We need your submissions! PCPCC is building-out webpages that provide journal articles, research, and tools to help practices and policymakers understand our vision of primary care as embodied in the Shared Principles. We welcome examples...
January 8, 2019 | Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative
With the help of our broad multisector membership of thought leaders and influencers in the health care space, PCPCC had numerous accomplishments that we’ve captured in a top 10 list. Our collective power is clearly impressive....
January 7, 2019 | Kaiser Health News
January 7, 2019 | The Baltimore Sun
Americans are spending more than twice as much for health care than people in other developed countries and more than double what they used to spend, a new batch of figures from the Johns Hopkins University shows.
Despite efforts to curb...
January 7, 2019 | Wall Street Journal
When Sarah Ford, 14 years old, was struggling with depression, hallucinations and suicidal thoughts last spring, her pediatrician in Springfield, Mo., was able to call in help from afar. Through a live videoconference link with Mercy...
January 4, 2019 | Kaiser Health News
January 3, 2019 | Kaiser Health News
There seems to be no end in sight for the current partial government shutdown, the third since the beginning of the Trump administration.
For the vast majority of the federal government’s public health efforts, though, it’s business as...
January 2, 2019 | FierceHealthcare
U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor of the Northern District of Texas said the Affordable Care Act should remain in place as appeals to his decision to strike down the law weave their way through the appeal process.
January 2, 2019 | Patient Engagement HIT
January 2, 2019 | Tampa Bay Times
Loneliness is as hazardous to one’s health as smoking a pack a day, new research suggests.
Oddly enough, people in the hospital are at particular risk of becoming lonely. Doctors, nurses and support staff may poke and prod them at all...
January 2, 2019 | Delaware State News
January 1, 2019 | Modern Healthcare
OhioHealth leaders needed a dramatically different approach to care for lower-income seniors with little access to quality primary-care providers.Too many patients with chronic diseases like diabetes and heart failure were coming into...
December 31, 2018 | The Herald Dispatch
HUNTINGTON — New year's resolutions like "lose weight" or "eat healthier" can be both overwhelming and hard to reach, but they have the same thought in mind: be healthier.
As you ring in 2019, consider making it your resolution to be a...
December 28, 2018 | mHealth Intelligence
December 27, 2018 | HealthDay
HealthDay News — From 2005 to 2017, there was a substantial increase in telemedicine use, although use was still uncommon in 2017, according to a research letter published online Nov. 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
December 26, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
Risk was the buzzword for healthcare quality and safety in 2018 as the CMS strongly pushed its value-based payment agenda. But the agency gave mixed signals about other patient-safety issues.
