Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said newly-appointed CDC Director Robert Redfield, MD, agreed the agency should be allowed to dedicate funding to research on gun violence, according to The Hill.
Care Coordination
Sterile Processing is the heart of perioperative services. Without a functioning Central Sterile Processing Department, OR efficiencies and quality become questionable at best.
Chappaqua, N.Y.-based CareMount Medical, one of the largest independent multispecialty medical groups in the state, joined CMS' Next Generation ACO model under its managed care subsidiary, CareMount ACO.
Identifying & Taking Action on Social Determinants of Health
Public health researchers are looking at the health information people search on Google to potentially link search term frequency with potential disease outbreaks, according to Futurism.
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The Virginia Department of Health entered into a partnership with the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association to improve population health efforts in the state.
The American population is aging rapidly, which is changing the U.S. economy and creating a need for more medical services while overflowing retirement communities, according to USA Today.
Humana will now reimburse hospitals based on quality improvement and performance metrics under a new program it revealed April 25.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed a rule April 24 limiting the types of scientific research the EPA may use in crafting agency regulations, according to The Washington Post.
Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, argued gene editing will improve global health within the next decade.