Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

There’s an RFI out right now, published as part of the federales’ “ Regulatory Sprint to Coordinated Care ,” announced by HHS Secretary Alex Azar in mid-2018. Well, that moment has arrived (maybe). In sum, it is important to note that, to paraphrase the poet, no regulation is an island entire unto itself.

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Innovative technology that enables remote services can expand access to care and create more opportunities for patients to access personalized care management as well as connect with their physicians quickly.”. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said in the statement.

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Henry Kotula

MAY 9, 2020

“The situation facing front-line physicians is dire,” three physician associations representing more than 260,000 doctors, wrote to the secretary of health and human services, Alex M. Azar II, at the end of April. Patrice Harris, the president of the American Medical Association.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 3, 2020

The groups are also asking for an accompanying provision that would give Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar the authority to waive the restrictions on telehealth visits during a public health emergency currently imposed by Medicare. Email the writer: mike.miliard@himssmedia.com.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 21, 2020

In its letter, which it also addressed to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma, AHA advised the administration to take a series of steps in response to the order. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar this week praised the Trump administration's technology response to the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting its efforts on data collection, telehealth expansion and more. billion data elements.

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Health Populi

MAY 8, 2019

prescriptions per person in 2018, two in three of which treated chronic conditions. Based on that $44 increase per person in 10 years, Aitken said that relatively low level of increase in per capita spending for medicines was “lower than headlines often suggest.”. But to that N of 1 patient, I said, it’s hugely personal.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2018

net spending on medicines will fall in 2018 and remain flat at about $800 per person, according to forecasts in 2018 and Beyond: Outlook and Turning Points , from the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science. In the U.S.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The bill's passage came the week after a federal judge declined to reinstate rules requiring patients seeking a medication abortion to visit a clinic or doctor's office in person during the pandemic. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2019

The President and Secretary Alex Azar have the opportunity to join forces with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has reached out to address this majority-supported issue. And these are the very substances that are motivating mainstream Americans to learn more and understand prescription drug pricing on a very personal, visceral level.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2019

A growing cohort of people have begun to diss and cut off social network connections and take actions to better control their personal information where they can. This legislation passed with universal votes from Democrats plus two Republicans. California’s privacy legislation, the CCPA, goes live on 1 January 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 10, 2018

We imminently await President Trump’s and Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar’s proposed plans to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, which is a “tri-partisan” issue with which Democrats, Independents, and Republicans all agree is due for increased Federal regulation.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Ironically, it’s through those negotiations conducted by other countries on which President Trump and Alex Azar would base their latest proposal to base U.S. She then did a riff on that sentiment, stating that, “All health care is personal.” pharma costs on reference pricing].

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