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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

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In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. It’s there to protect us from evildoers. After The Jungle was published. Sometimes they were not.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

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Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. Lisa is an excellent health tech policy follow, by the way). Suddenly, EHR usage was nearly universal and the immunization documentation process was electronifying at the point of care.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

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I’ve cut/pasted selected sentences from the DOH document to make it easy to follow here – but (of course) the full document has more detail/explanation. Those with political power will retain it, and true public health decisions will be elusive. . Elsewhere? We’ll have to see. SDHN, we solve this. Too few. . .