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Join us October 14-15 at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento and learn strategies and take home tools for achieving reliable care and delivering value to each patient, each time, and in each community.
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Over the weekend, the Legislature’s budget conference committee completed its work of negotiating the differences between the Governor’s, Assembly’s, and Senate’s budgets. The Senate and Assembly now need to approve the final budget bill and the accompanying trailer bills and send them to the Governor no later than June 15, for his approval by July 1.
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A patient with asthma comes to a health center seeking an inhaler. This is the nearest health center where he can get one, and it took him three hours to drive there. Although an inhaler is a standard treatment for asthma, it is nearly impossible to obtain.
The doctor reads a government script that talks about the dangers of inhalers (which are not based on medical facts). The patient is told that if he still wants the inhaler, he can come back in 72 hours—driving six hours round trip and taking time off from work again. Through all of this, if the doctor fails to dot any “i” or cross any “t”, that physician could end up in jail.
If this scenario seems too ludicrous to exist in medicine, think again. This is the reality for abortion care in the U.S. And it’s a major threat to public health across the country.
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The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) has released newly revised standards to assist health care practitioners in consistently producing high-quality compounded medicines that are the right strength and free of contaminants. The final USP 797, USP 825, and USP 795 and General Chapter 800 standards will take effect Dec. 1.
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[embed]The slide deck for the June 11 CHA member forum on the federal fiscal year 2020 inpatient prospective payment system proposed rule is posted below.
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I’ve been talking in recent posts about how our typical methods of testing AI systems are inadequate and potentially unsafe. In particular, I’ve complained that all of the headline-grabbing papers so far only do controlled experiments, so we don’t how the AI systems will perform on real patients.
Today I am going to highlight a piece of work that has not received much attention, but actually went “all the way” and tested an AI system in clinical practice, assessing clinical outcomes. They did an actual clinical trial!
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I’d like every American to be guaranteed health care, higher education and meaningful employment — things some Democratic candidates for president frequently refer to as “rights.” Trouble is, these are not rights, and to frame them as such is counterproductive to good causes.
In announcing her candidacy in January, Sen. Kamala Harris of California said, “I am running to declare education is a fundamental right, and we will guarantee that right with universal pre-K and debt-free college.” That’s an admirable goal, but it’s not a right, at least not yet.
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Every day, hospitals stand united to prevent and reduce violence. To support today’s Hospitals Against Violence national awareness day, Scripps Health CEO Chris Van Gorder speaks out on behalf of workplace and community safety in a new CHA-produced video clip.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will activate billing claims edits for outpatient providers with multiple service locations in July. Once CMS implements the July 2019 quarterly release, Medicare administrative contractors will be directed to permanently turn on edits and return claims that do not exactly match.
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CHA has extended the deadline for its Advocacy Alert asking members to urge their assemblymembers to oppose Senate Bill (SB) 227, which would create an unreasonable, mandatory penalty system for hospitals that do not meet nurse staffing ratios. The deadline for letters is now 5 p.m. on June 11.