Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 241: Fighting Nurse Burnout with Data-Driven Innovation with Dr. Ecoee Rooney of Indicator Sciences
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Nurses make up the largest section of the healthcare profession and spend more time with patients than any other care team member. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people learned the incredible impact hospital nurses have...more
News Briefs - FDA Gives First Approval of Mass Canadian Drug Imports - The Food and Drug Administration has allowed Florida to import millions of dollars' worth of medications from Canada at far lower prices than in the...more
News Briefs - Major Visa Delays Continue Impacting Hospitals' Nursing Shortages - The U.S. is in the midst of a visa retrogression, when a surge in demand collides with annual caps, jamming up the processing queue. The delays...more
News Briefs - Senate Committee Advances Bill on 'Ghost Providers,' PBMs - In a unanimous 26-0 vote, the Senate Finance Committee passed a comprehensive draft package that puts pharmacy benefit manager reform and mental health...more
News Briefs - AHA Urges FTC to Pull Back Pre-Merger Notification Requirements - The American Hospital Association is among those pushing back against the Federal Trade Commission's plans to update pre-merger notification...more
News Briefs - PHE End Brings Challenges for Nursing Home Operators - As the public health emergency (PHE) came to an end on May 11, industry leaders point out that nursing home operators are still in pandemic recovery mode...more
Welcome to our latest Healthcare Snapshot, where we take a quick look at some of the most pressing issues facing employers in the industry. Even though COVID-19 numbers are generally trending in a positive direction,...more
The U.S. health care system and all who rely on it may be reaching painful reckonings on how the coronavirus pandemic keeps affecting caregiving personnel, whether with highly trained nurses who are forcing hospitals to pay...more
Hospitals in Florida and the rest of the country generally are careful about safety measures, staff-to-patient ratios and infection control. There are specific standards of care they must meet in the communities they serve. ...more
This content was last updated as of Thursday, April 24 at 12:00 p.m. CST- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues its issuance of Section 1135 waivers, waiving or modifying certain Medicare, Medicaid,...more
Across the country, hospitals and healthcare providers are facing an unprecedented surge of patients with COVID-19 symptoms while continuing to care for patients with other medical conditions. Responding adequately to the...more
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) continues its issuance of Section 1135 waivers, waiving or modifying certain Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) requirements to ensure that...more
On March 30, 2020, CMS issued numerous additional blanket waivers to give providers greater flexibility in responding to COVID-19. (See https://www.cms.gov/files/document/summary-covid-19-emergency-declaration-waivers.pdf)....more
Medicine's dirty secret: tens of thousands suffer injury and death from preventable error - Each year tens of thousands of Americans are killed by medical mistakes and errors. These avoidable deaths and the many more...more
ALERT: Health Reform Outlook for 2017: A Year of Major Uncertainty - Fulfilling their promises, Congressional Republicans moved to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on the first day of the new Congress when Senate...more
McCarter & English, LLP’s Health Care Group presents Issue 13 of the Health Law Insights, which discusses the latest legal issues in the health care industry. - Failure to Update Business Associate Agreement Results in...more
On June 29 and 30, 2015, the Connecticut General Assembly conducted a special legislative session following the close of the 2015 regular session. Among other things, the General Assembly passed a bill to implement the state...more