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Analysis: The Supreme Court Decision That Limited Federal Regulations Power Will Affect U.S. Health Care

Fri, 2024-07-05 10:59 — mike kraft
The Supreme Court Just Limited Federal Power. Health Care Is Feeling the Shockwaves. - KFF Health News A Supreme Court ruling restricting federal power will likely have seismic ramifications for health policy. A flood of litigation — with plaintiffs like small businesses, drugmakers, and hospitals challenging regulations they say are too expensive or burdensome and not authorized by law — could leave the country with a patchwork of disparate health regulations. khnerich KFF Health News
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National Academy of Sciences urges federal government and medical profession to develop a common definition of long Covid

Thu, 2024-06-13 13:50 — mike kraft

Federal Government, Clinicians, Employers, and Others Should Adopt New Definition for Long COVID to Aid in Consistent Diagnosis, Documentation, and Treatment | National Academies

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Opinion: The U.S. Needs A Better Testing Playbook For Future Public Health Emergencies

Thu, 2024-06-06 17:47 — mike kraft
The United States Needs A Better Testing Playbook For Future Public Health Emergencies The absence of a comprehensive national playbook for developing and deploying testing has hindered the United States’ ability to rapidly suppress recent biological emergencies (for example, the COVID-19 pandemic and outbreaks of mpox). We describe here the Testing Playbook for Biological Emergencies, a national testing playbook we developed. It includes a set of decisions and actions for US officials to take at specific times during infectious disease emergencies to implement testing rapidly and to ensure that available testing meets clinical and public health needs.
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Dr. Birx, former health official, says US making ‘same mistakes’ with bird flu as COVID-19

Thu, 2024-06-06 17:34 — mike kraft

Birx says US making ‘same mistakes’ with bird flu as COVID-19 (thehill.com)

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Placing COVID patients in skilled nursing facilities during the early pandemic led to increased cases, deaths, study finds

Tue, 2024-06-04 17:53 — mike kraft
Placing COVID patients in skilled nursing facilities led to increased cases, deaths, study finds Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some states allowed COVID-19 patients to be discharged from hospitals to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), and even offered financial incentives to SNFs to take in patients to deal with hospital bed shortages.  CIDRAP

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WHO emergencies team run short of funding as health crises multiply

Thu, 2024-05-30 11:08 — mike kraft
WHO emergencies team faces funding crunch as health crises multiply The World Health Organization's emergencies department is facing “existential threats” as multiplying health crises have left it so short of cash that it needed emergency funds to pay staff salaries at the end of last year, an independent report said. Jennifer Rigby Reuters

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COVID-19 forecasting tool allowed Canadian hospital to manage patient capacity, resources amid pandemic's third wave

Tue, 2024-05-28 10:07 — mike kraft
Study: COVID-19 forecasting tool allowed hospital to manage patient capacity, resources amid pandemic's third wave During the peak of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, the health-care system's capacity was stretched and hospitals across Canada relied on each other to share resources and provide care. Marzena McDonald Medical Xpress

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Testing of patients for COVID, isolation of sick staff cut in-hospital viral spread, UK modeling study suggests

Wed, 2024-05-15 10:29 — mike kraft

 

COVID patient testing, isolation of sick staff cut in-hospital viral spread, modeling study suggests Interventions such as testing patients for COVID-19 on admission, isolation of ill healthcare workers (HCWs), and universal HCW masking from March 2020 to July 2022 significantly reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission among patients and staff in UK hospitals, suggests a simulation study led by UK Health Security Agency researchers in London. CIDRAP

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A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline

Fri, 2024-05-10 19:13 — mike kraft
A cyberattack forces a big US health system to divert ambulances and take records offline A cyberattack on the Ascension health system operating in 19 states across the U.S. forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone medical tests and blocked online access to patient records. AP News

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Peer support was valuable for health worker stress during COVID-19-- study

Thu, 2024-05-02 18:14 — mike kraft
Peer support valuable intervention for health worker stress during COVID-19, study shows With healthcare worker (HCW) burnout one of the most pressing issues facing US clinicians, a new study in JAMA Network Open indicates that Stress First Aid, a peer-to-peer support intervention, improved the well-being of HCWs compared with usual care during the COVID-19 pandemic. CIDRAP

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