A paper by Kowal et al. (2023) does in fact measure the disparities in health outcomes. To do this, they use data from the American Community Survey (ACS), the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) and the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) to estimate differences in life expectancy (LY), quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE), and disability-free life…
The company paid about $40 million for the clinical decision support software in June and executives say it can deliver clients a 10-to-1 return on their investment.
Megan Waiters puede recitar las historias de docenas de personas a las que ayudó a conectarse a internet en el oeste de Alabama. Un niño de 7 años que no podía hacer sus tareas en línea sin una tableta, y la persona de 91 años a la que enseñó a consultar portales de salud en…
OSHA and NIOSH recommend that all hospitals develop comprehensive violence prevention programs. Here are some action items that provide a framework for building a legally defensible program. The post OSHA’s Evolving Approach to Workplace Violence Prevention in Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News.
As soon as she fell, Deborah Buttgereit knew she couldn’t avoid going to the hospital. “I could hear the bones moving around in my elbow,” said Buttgereit, who was 60 when she slipped on a patch of ice in December outside her apartment in Bozeman, Montana. Emergency room scans showed she had fractured her left…
Tortugas Neurosciences’ two lead programs are in-licensed oral small molecules in development for schizophrenia and tinnitus. The startup is led by veterans of Sage Therapeutics, a neuroscience biotech that was acquired last year. The post Neuro Startup Tortugas Unveils $106M and a Pipeline of Drugs for the Brain appeared first on MedCity News.
Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her home on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana. After his mom finally saw a specialist in Glasgow, about an hour away, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, Bighorn…
Last week, CMS announced the GENEROUS (GENErating cost Reductions fOr U.S. Medicaid) Model. The program basically is a ‘most favored nation’ style reference pricing based on net prices from developed countries. The program builds on the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program (MDRP). Specific details specified on the CMS website include: Participating manufacturers whose applications are accepted…
This analysis allocates the CBO’s estimated reduction in federal spending in the Senate reconciliation bill across states based on KFF’s state-level data and where possible, prior modeling work; and shows the federal spending reductions relative to KFF’s projections of federal spending by state under current law.
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