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Smaller U.S. providers and community health care centers fight to stay afloat after Change Healthcare hack

Wed, 2024-03-27 10:23 — mike kraft

Hack poses financial problems for community health centers - Roll Call In the aftermath of the Change Healthcare hack, small providers and community health centers are struggling to pay their bills. Jessica Wehrman Roll Call

Community health centers and organizations that primarily serve low-income people are being disproportionately hurt by the biggest hack in health care history, which has disrupted payments for thousands of health care providers for a month now.

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Opinion: U.S. needs nonpartisan commission to examaine what wrong in dealing with early stages of COVID pandemic

Fri, 2024-03-22 19:30 — mike kraft

What Did the US Get Wrong During Covid? We Need to Know In the first year of the pandemic, leaders badly fumbled. We need a nonpartisan investigation into how things went so wrong. F.D. Flam Bloomberg

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Large U.S. Nursing home operator files for bankruptcy after cyber attacks

Fri, 2024-03-22 10:29 — mike kraft

Nursing home co. Petersen files for bankruptcy after cyberattacks Petersen Health Care, one of the largest nursing home operators in the U.S., filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday after cyberattacks and defaults on government-backed loans worsened the company’s long-standing financial challenges. Dietrich Knauth Reuters

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Opinion: sabbaticals for nurses could help counter shortages and burnout

Thu, 2024-03-21 11:16 — mike kraft

Sabbaticals for nurses could help fight worker shortages and burnout Sabbaticals for nurses could help fight worker shortages and burnout. Torie Bosch STAT

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Analysis: After years of ransomware attacks, health-care defenses still fail

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:58 — mike kraft

After years of ransomware attacks, health-care defenses still fail The danger was obvious in 2021, when ransomware gangs struck hospitals already overwhelmed by the covid-19 pandemic. Joseph Menn The Washington Post

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UnitedHealth hack takes toll on healthcare providers to the American poor

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:44 — mike kraft

UnitedHealth hack takes toll on healthcare providers to the nation's poor The ransomware attack on UnitedHealth that has disrupted payments to U.S. doctors and healthcare facilities nationwide for a month, has taken an especially harsh toll on the community health centers that serve more than 30 million poor and uninsured patients. Julie Steenhuysen Reuters

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Marking the fading of the COVID pandemic, the U.S. NIH is shelving its COVID treatment guidelines

Wed, 2024-03-20 10:16 — mike kraft

In a pandemic milestone, the NIH ends guidance on COVID treatment The National Institutes of Health is sunsetting its influential COVID-19 treatment guidelines, used by millions of doctors to guide care during the pandemic. NPR

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The last version of the NIH's COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines was issued in February. The archives of the guidance — available online until August — document how scientific understanding and technological progress evolved during the pandemic.

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U.S. government urges states to make interim payments for healthcare providers hit by cyberattack

Mon, 2024-03-18 10:33 — mike kraft

US agency urges interim payments for healthcare providers hit by UnitedHealth hack The U.S. government said on Friday it has urged states to make interim payments to healthcare providers that were hit by the cyberattack at UnitedHealth's unit Change Healthcare. Reuters Reuters

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Differences between health workers, laypeople on how to allocate limited medical resources amid a crisis--survey

Fri, 2024-03-15 10:41 — mike kraft

Health workers, laypeople differ on how to allocate limited medical resources amid a crisis On average, healthcare providers more strongly agreed that scarce resources shouldn't be allocated to patients less likely to survive. CIDRAP

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Blood Test Could Predict Long-Term COVID-19 Lung Problems --University of Virginia research

Thu, 2024-03-14 17:42 — mike kraft

Blood Test Could Predict Long-Term COVID-19 Lung Problems New research alleviates concerns that severe COVID-19 could trigger relentless, ongoing lung scarring that could lead to death. Joshua Barney UVA Health Newsroom

UVA Health researchers have discovered a potential way to predict which patients with severe COVID-19 are likely to recover well and which are likely to suffer “long-haul” lung problems. That finding could help doctors better personalize treatments for individual patients.

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