Featured Story | | Is the COVID-19 Federal PHE Nearing Its End? | | CMS continues to gradually end some emergency blanket waivers allowed under the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) for some providers, but for now the 1135 waivers remain intact for acute care and critical access hospitals. The current 90-day PHE declaration, effective through April 16, could be renewed as early as next week. However, there is a new note recently added atop HHS’ online list of PHE declarations. |
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News & Analysis | | Three Steps to Reducing Health Inequities in the Latino Community | | Many factors drive the health disparities affecting the Latino community, and these disparities are further exacerbated by the inaccessibility and unaffordability of U.S. healthcare. While the Affordable Care Act has narrowed some health disparities, Latino adults continue to report significantly higher uninsured rates than other groups. A 2020 Commonwealth Fund study revealed uninsured rates of 24.9% for Latinos, 14.4% for Blacks, and 8.6% for whites. |
| Integrating Safety Technology Benefits Hospitals…and Patients | | Doctors and nurses may be preoccupied with threats of violence from irate patients or visitors, staff working the night shift may dread the long walk to a remote parking garage, and hospital administrators may be worried about uncontrolled access to valuable equipment and prescription drugs. All of these concerns distract from the mission of any hospital or healthcare facility: the critical work of healing. |
| Detecting Drug Diversion Faster using NIH-Funded Machine Learning Analytics | | The American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP) published a 5-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study on using machine learning and advanced analytics to improve drug diversion detection. On Wednesday, April 20, join contributing authors Tom Knight and Pam Letzkus in a panel discussion on the results of the retrospective study detailing key benefits of using technology to improve drug diversion detection and investigation. |
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