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California Health Care Affordability Board discuss methodology for statewide spending target – State of Reform

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California Health Care Affordability Board discuss methodology for statewide spending target - State of Reform

California’s Health Care Affordability Board (HCAB) met last month to discuss an overview of draft decisions for a baseline spending report, and introduced methodology considerations for the statewide spending target. The board’s purpose is to reduce the rate of cost growth across California’s healthcare sector.  The Office of Health Care Affordability (OHCA) will measure healthcare … Read more

New partnership helps promote diversity in health care – The Den

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Diverse group of young adults posing with Dr. Ryan Mire on steps of ACP headquarters

2023 Interns with Dr. Ryan Mire at ACP Headquarters MACON — Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is partnering with The Dr. Earl Stewart Jr., Family Foundation and the American College of Physicians (ACP) to secure a slot for a Mercer student in the Summer 2024 cohort of The Ryan Mire, M.D., … Read more

Consumers are ready for personalized health care. Data can make it happen.

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Consumers are ready for personalized health care. Data can make it happen.

Data can make personalized health care happen: ©Lalaka – stock.adobe.com The consumer experience of the digital world is steeped in personalization. Smart televisions know what we want to watch. Web browsers predict our shopping needs. Music streaming services play the greatest hits from our favorite genre. Leveraging data around our preferences and habits, the consumer … Read more

Leveraging BIM to Enhance Infection Control in Health Care Facility Development

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Leveraging BIM to Enhance Infection Control in Health Care Facility Development

Innovative BIM visualization highlighting the utilities of a building’s systems Generative AI (Adobe Stock 600888213 by abdulmoizjaangda) How BIM Can Help Predict and Prevent the Spread of Disease in Health care Facilities Building information modeling (BIM), a process of creating and managing digital representations of the physical and operative features of places, is one of the … Read more

Tajikistan is reforming Primary Health Care to reach Universal Health Coverage

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Family nurse in a PHC facility in Bokthar, Tajikistan.

Tajikistan is transforming its health system to accelerate progress toward Universal Health Coverage (UHC). For the last two decades, the country has been undertaking significant reforms to shift towards a Primary Health Care (PHC) approach with a strong family medicine focus conducive to strengthening the health system to attain its objectives of ‘health for all’.  … Read more

UNE receives $2 million from Glickman Lauder Foundation to support mental health care and ease workforce shortages

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As mental health programs continue to shutter across Maine, the University of New England is taking strides to address a mental health crisis. With generous financial support from the Judy Glickman Lauder Foundation, UNE plans to launch an innovative psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) program to bolster the state’s behavioral health workforce. The $2 … Read more

Researchers ponder best ways for primary care to integrate mental health care

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Researchers ponder best ways for primary care to integrate mental health care

© Pormezz – stock.adobe.com There is no single formula for success when physicians and other clinicians integrate mental health care into primary care. Patients could benefit from a seamless system that treats the body and behavioral health. But researchers at the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) have found there is no single … Read more

New Mental Health Care Opportunities During Open Enrollment

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Medicare Mental Health Workforce Coalition

BREAKING NEWS: Mental health care options expand for the New Year. On December 23, 2022, Congress passed the Mental Health Access Improvement Act (S.828/H.R.432), and President Joe Biden signed this into law. This bill allows licensed professional counselors (LPCs, LCPCs) as well as licensed marriage–family therapists (LMFTs, LCMFTs) to enroll as providers in the Centers … Read more

County board mulls future of health care center – Stevens Point News

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County board mulls future of health care center - Stevens Point News

BY MIKE WARREN EDITOR STEVENS POINT — There were seemingly more questions than answers Oct. 10, at the end of a nearly two-hour discussion by the Portage County Board concerning the health care center. Consultants and county officials gave supervisors various updates regarding a proposed health care center building project and related financing projections. Portage … Read more