Some recent but not well publicized articles suggests how big health care corporations are still enabling some of the worst aspects of health care and larger political economic dysfunction. Introduction – Health Care Corporate Political Donations Become More Partisan and Ideological A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away big health care corporations […]
Turning the Tide By Suzanne Parker Mental health is important at every stage of life and is critical for a girl’s success in school. Yet we are currently facing a mental-health crisis among youth. Based on the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance of 2023, almost 53% of female students in the U.S. experienced persistent […]
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Summary Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2021, enhanced federal premium subsidies for Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces, like Covered California, have significantly lowered costs for enrollees. This additional federal premium help will expire at the end of 2025 unless the Trump administration and Congress choose to extend them or make them […]
Background Health care costs for consumers are rising faster than inflation, taking up bigger and bigger chunks of consumers’ incomes. Californians are facing a health care affordability crisis, and that’s why the Legislature and Governor created the Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) in 2022.The Legislature and Governor established OHCA with the triple aim of […]
What You Should Know: – A recent report KLAS report has shed light on the ongoing cybersecurity challenges facing the healthcare industry, emphasizing the ripple effects of breaches like the 2024 Change Healthcare incident. – The new KLAS study, the “Healthcare Cybersecurity Benchmarking Study 2025,” has analyzed the self-reported cybersecurity practices of 69 healthcare and […]
Top News The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) offers the federal government its vision for evolving the US quality measurement ecosystem. HIStalk Announcements and Requests Industry veteran and long-time HIStalk reader Todd Karner, DHA, MGA, RN is now professor and graduate program director at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UBMC). He asked me […]
August 13th is the anniversary of the death of Florence Nightingale – British nurse, statistician, infection preventionist, social reformer, and patient advocate. At the end of her life, she was bedridden for several years, but she did not let that stop her from her campaign to improve health standards. Although she was never officially diagnosed, […]
As healthcare systems continue to evolve towards more integrated and data-driven models, the need for structured task execution mechanisms has become increasingly evident. The article addresses this need by introducing a phase-wise and scalable approach to enabling healthcare task based workflows that will ensure enhanced workflow automation and efficiency in completing tasks by the various […]
