A step towards better health care

Today, we live in an era of customization. Increasingly, customers can modify a product’s appearance, features, or content according to their unique needs or desires. Often, even the news we see in our newsfeeds is customized based off our preferences.
Why, then, are so many aspects of the health care industry still one-size-fits-all?
As doctors, we’ve seen firsthand how this can negatively impact patients who require more individualized care. One particular example is a practice known as “step therapy” or “fail first.”
Now, when patients visit their doctors for a prescription, the treatments they are prescribed are typically based on a variety of personal factors. These factors include their health history, underlying symptoms, and their doctor’s long-term understanding of their condition, such as whether they have already tried certain drugs under a different health insurance plan, if they have other medical conditions that might interfere with the drug’s effect, whether certain drug’s side effects will affect the patient’s ability to perform their job, or if the patient would prefer a drug that has a different ingestion method or dosage form. Treatment plans need to be based on the individual’s needs, and their doctors’ medical expertise and first-hand knowledge of their patients’ overall health.

 However, far too often, what happens next is the problem. When a patient goes to the pharmacy to fill their prescription, they may be informed that their physician-prescribed medicine will not be covered unless the patient first proves that another medication-one of the insurer’s choosing, not their doctor-will not work for them.

In such a case as this, failure is not only an option, it is the only option before getting appropriate treatment.
Under the current system, patients are left with a limited set of options: either try a medication that is not what their doctor recommended for their condition, or pay out of pocket for the treatment they need. For many people, that’s not a choice at all. They are simply forced to fail on a medication other than what their doctor prescribed.
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Graham-Cassidy health care bill: What you need to know

Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Bill Cassidy of Louisiana have drafted the latest Republican attempt to repeal Obamacare. The bill would overhaul or eliminate major sections of the health care law, including its subsidized insurance coverage and Medicaid expansion. Instead, states would receive block grants, or a lump sum of money from the federal government, which they could use largely as they see fit.

How Graham-Cassidy would alter federal funding

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis

The liberal-leaning think tank Center on Budget and Policy Priorities released estimates of how federal funding would change if the bill became law. In its analysis, California would be hardest hit, losing $27.8-billion in funding.

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Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson block grant model

Cassidy’s office released its own estimates. Massachusetts takes the hardest hit with a more than $5 billion loss in funding. Overall, Southern states that did not expand Medicaid are poised to receive more in federal funding.

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The bill comes after three failed GOP repeal attempts in the Senate, and a proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders to extend the reach of government subsidized health care to all Americans.
But Republicans are up against a tight deadline. Their budget reconciliation bill, which allows them to overhaul Obamacare with a simple majority, expires on Sept. 30. The deadline could work to Graham’s and Cassidy’s advantage, however, by spurring hesitant Republicans to seize what may be their last opportunity to deliver on their seven-year promise to repeal Obamacare.

Read More: http://snip.ly/v5ygq#http://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/graham-cassidy-health-care-bill-what-you-need-to-know/

Get Healthcare training Online for $10 each

Used to paying over $250 for a high quality healthcare webinar from a leading expert on the topic from a reputable provider of professional trainings? Let us change your habit! You no longer have to pay this much. So, how much do you think you need to be paying for top healthcare webinars? $200?  $150? $100? None of these. All that you have to pay for a top healthcare webinar is $10! 

Yes, no spelling errors here. It is indeed $10. That is all you need to pay for a healthcare webinar from GlobalCompliancePanel, a leading provider of professional trainings for all the areas of regulatory compliance. There is a whole list of top healthcare webinars you can get for $10. There are just so many on offer; you will be spoilt for choice:

Healthcare reform is one of the hot areas of healthcare today, what with many regulations that keep coming up from time to time about this critical sector of the economy. This top healthcare webinar you can get for $10 equips you with many facets of the Affordable Care Act, or what we have come to call Obamacare. What impact will it have on employees and employers? Find out through this webinar.

Healthcare is an area in which FMEA applies very strongly. When something goes wrong at the healthcare provider’s location; it throws the whole system out of gear. Carrying out a thorough failure mode and effects analysis is a great antidote to these problems. Want to find out how to do it? This top healthcare webinar you can get for $10 has the answers.

But one question has not been answered yet: Why is GlobalCompliancePanel doing this? Why is it having this offer now? Well, it is because it wants to ensure that the community of regulatory professionals grows, and grows well. Having been in the professional trainings area for ten years now; it feels this is something it needs to do in order to draw more people into the regulatory trainings network. By offering top healthcare webinars you can get for $10; GlobalCompliancePanel wants to contribute its mite to enhancing and expanding the learning community.

Isn’t this offer of top healthcare webinars you can get for $10 the ideal means to growing up in your career? After all, we spend this amount on myriad things that could be of some use to us, but does this use compare with the enormity of the utility a healthcare webinar gives? These top healthcare webinars you can get for $10 each help you climb your professional ladder. This in turn could help your organization make a name as a responsible and ethical provider of quality products. It could earn it a reputation in the market. When you can accomplish all these through top healthcare webinars you can get for $10, what are you waiting for? 

Healthcare Compliance Professional Courses @ 10$ from GlobalCompliancePanel

Healthcare professionals now have a stronger reason than ever before to enroll for professional learning courses and upgrade their knowledge. GlobalCompliancePanel, a highly reputable provider of professional trainings for all the areas of regulatory compliance, will offer a pick of their healthcare compliance courses for just $10.
Healthcare professionals have always been flocking to GlobalCompliancePanel to partake of professional trainings courses that are valuable, relevant and highly interesting. They will now have more reasons for doing so and join thousands of healthcare regulatory professionals who have already benefited from GlobalCompliancePanel’s professional trainings, because it is not every day that one comes across an offer in which the professional gets to pay a mere 5% of the original price of the webinars!
These recorded webinars are on a number of topics concerning healthcare. Healthcare professionals can use these courses to augment the learning they have gained over the years and climb up in their professions with even greater ease. What’s more; healthcare professionals have such a huge number and variety of courses to choose from that they can opt for several courses of relevance to them without burning a hole in the pocket.
Why is GlobalCompliancePanel doing this? Simple: It wants more and more healthcare professionals to take up courses that are relevant and valuable to them, so that the knowledge needed for becoming successful in their careers spreads wider and goes deeper. After all, meeting regulatory compliance requirements is the number one challenge for any healthcare professional, who sees no way out of the regulatory maze without the professional trainings needed to understand them. When such a course is available at a throwaway price of $10, isn’t that a delightful thing to have?
Let us feature a couple of the topics on which GlobalCompliancePanel is offering these courses to healthcare regulatory professionals:
The HITECH Acts Impact on HIPAA
HIPAA enforcement is a matter of serious concern to many healthcare professionals. Many of them, even highly experienced ones, are clueless about some of the aspects of this enigmatic law. When HITECH combines with HIPAA; the confusion is doubled. The two laws intersect at many places, thus compounding the complexity of enforcement. This webinar from GlobalCompliancePanel offers clarity and helps them ease the confusion about this law.
Further, the nature and roles of a host of HIPAA-related items such as breach notification, business associate contracts, training of staff and security of PHI for Business Associates can be daunting to understand and implement. Webinars such as this are designed to help healthcare professionals steer clear of the stumbling blocks that they could encounter in implementing these.
Preparing a Medical Product Regulatory Requirement Plan
What happens when healthcare companies fail to meet regulatory requirements set out by the FDA and other regulatory agencies? The consequences are disastrous, and can range from penalties to having their business shut down. One of the foundations to avoiding this sort of situation is to develop a medical product regulatory requirement plan.
A medical product regulatory requirement plan charts out the regulatory requirements  that need to be met from step one, which is quite literally Day One of the start of the process of making healthcare products. A detailed and organized medical product regulatory requirement plan is indispensable to ensuring in the end that the healthcare product meets the regulatory requirements.
It is this priceless learning that this webinar from GlobalCompliancePanel imparts. And yes, at $10!
Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance
Pharmacovigilance, a crucial area of healthcare, needs to be implemented in full according to the requirements set out in regulations from the FDA, EMA and other regulatory agencies. Drug safety being deeply tied to PV; the proper implementation of the latter is needed to ensure the former.
PV is essentially about ensuring drug safety by implementing measures throughout the process of production. A healthcare company has to comply with directions from a number of regulatory agencies in order to have its products passed by them and to gain permission to enter different markets. They cannot afford to take one wrong step in the whole process. A number of areas such as clinical trials, marketing, disease management and government are just some of the areas in which pharmacovigilance is indispensable.
This webinar from GlobalCompliancePanel is a great means to getting a complete understanding of this intricate topic. The topic is of great relevance to healthcare professionals, but what’s more; it comes at this unbelievable price tag of just $10!
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How Americans get their health insurance

With Obamacare firmly in the crosshairs of Republican lawmakers, the debate around U.S. healthcare is at a fever pitch.
While there is no shortage of opinions on the best route forward, the timeliness of the debate also gives us an interesting chance to dive into some of the numbers around healthcare – namely how people even get coverage in the first place.

How Americans get healthcare

The following infographic shows a breakdown of how Americans get healthcare coverage, based on information from Census Bureau’s surveys.
Put together by Axios, it shows the proportion of Americans getting coverage from employers, Medicaid, Medicare, non-group policies, and other public sources. The graphic also includes the 9% of the population that is uninsured, as well.
Axios via Visual Capitalist
The following definitions for each category above come from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit that uses the Census Bureau’s data to put together comprehensive estimates on healthcare in the country:
Employer-Based: Includes those covered by employer-sponsored coverage either through their own job or as a dependent in the same household.
Medicaid: Includes those covered by Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and those who have both Medicaid and another type of coverage, such as dual eligibles who are also covered by Medicare.
Medicare: Includes those covered by Medicare, Medicare Advantage, and those who have Medicare and another type of non-Medicaid coverage where Medicare is the primary payer. Excludes those with Medicare Part A coverage only and those covered by Medicare and Medicaid (dual eligibles).
Other Public: Includes those covered under the military or Veterans Administration.
Non-Group: Includes individuals and families that purchased or are covered as a dependent by non-group insurance.
Uninsured: Includes those without health insurance and those who have coverage under the Indian Health Service only.

Healthcare mix by state

Here’s another look at how Americans get healthcare coverage on a state-by-state basis.
This time the graphic comes from Overflow Data and it simply shows the percent of buyers in each state that receive health coverage from public sources:

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Oddly, the state that gets the highest proportion of public health coverage (New Mexico, 46.6%) is kitty-corner to the state with the lowest proportion of public health coverage (Utah, 21.3%).

Why the debate is paramount

If you ask some people what is going on with U.S. healthcare, they will tell you that things are going “sideways” – that costs are going up, but care is not improving anywhere near the same pace.
Here’s a graphic we published last year from Max Roser that puts this sentiment in perspective:
Visual Capitalist via Our World in Data
It’s fair to say that care has been going sideways in the U.S. for some time, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
So, what needs to be done to fix the problem?

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Health Buzz: The 10 Best States for Health Care

If you want to get the best health care, you might be better off living in one of these states, according to a new ranking.

Hawaii, Iowa and Minnesota topped WalletHub’s new ranking of the best states for health care. The ranking took into account 35 metrics in the categories of cost, accessibility and health outcomes.

Among access-to-care metrics, the highest percent of insured adults (ages 18 to 64) live in Massachusetts, the District of Columbia, Vermont, Hawaii and Minnesota. The lowest live in Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida and Texas.

As for outcome metrics, like lowest cancer rate, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Utah ranked in the top five, while New York, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Delaware and Kentucky ranked in the bottom five.

U.S. News ranks its own Best States for Health Care, in which Hawaii also stands at No. 1.

Health care concerns, though always present, have been thrust into the national conversation even more this year amid legislative attempts to reform former President Barack Obama’s health care law.

The Senate recently failed to pass a health care bill. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) voted against the Republicans’ attempt to overhaul the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare.

A recent report from the Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. has the worst health care system compared to other high-income countries. The U.S. ranked lowest for health outcomes despite outspending its peers, according to the report.

But in its own health care analysis, the Kaiser Family Foundation discovered the U.S. system has made progress, especially with “its ability to promote health and provide high-quality care, with some recent improvement in the accessibility of that care and a slowing of spending growth.”

Americans typically spend approximately $10,000 each year on personal health care, and that number is expected to rise, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

WalletHub’s top 10 states for health care are listed below, and a complete list can be found here.

Overall Rank	State	‘Outcomes’ Rank
1	Hawaii	1
2	Iowa	13
2	Minnesota	8
4	New Hampshire	7
5	District of Columbia	37
6	Connecticut	5
7	South Dakota	24
8	Vermont	3
9	Massachusetts	2
10	Rhode Island	10

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Application of concepts and theories of clinical research

Protection of human subjects and everything relating to it is of paramount importance for those involved in or wanting to be involved in research dealing with human subjects or an individual's private identifiable information. For these individuals, professionals and companies, it is extremely important to understand that there are federal regulations that must be followed.

There are also state statutes, institutional policies, federal guidance documents, and ethical codes that guide the conduct of the research. This is done to ensure that the research not only meets the regulatory requirements but also that it is conducted in an ethical manner, coming with adequate protections for the individuals who elect to enroll in the research or allow their information to be used for research.

Guidelines lack clarity

However, the challenge that this position presents is that the guidelines –which also provide interpretation of the regulations –are not always as clear as they might appear upon first reading them.

A two-day seminar from GlobalCompliancePanel, a leading provider of professional trainings for all the areas of regulatory compliance, will impart understanding on all these grey areas of human subjects. It will clarify on these regulations. To enroll for this highly educative session, just log on to http://www.globalcompliancepanel.com/control/globalseminars/~product_id=900671SEMINAR.

The Director of this seminar is the highly regarded expert on the subject, Sarah Fowler-Dixon, Education Specialist and instructor with Washington University School of Medicine. Sarah has developed a comprehensive education program for human subject research which has served as a model for other institutions.

Ways of applying concepts and theories

This two-day seminar will provide the foundation for the application, concepts and theories of clinical research.

The speaker will not only provide a refresher of the regulations; she will also provide attendees with the opportunity to discuss and learn how these regulations, ethical codes and guidance documents get applied in different situations. This information can then be used to help attendees in their day-to-day decision making when confronted with situations or questions regarding how to handle issues that do arise (e.g. a participant not showing for a scheduled appointment, an event that is unexpected occurs, someone who does not speak wishes to enroll in the study, a participant signing an outdated consent document, etc.) when conducting human subjects.

Outcomes of the seminar

The learning acquired over these two days will help attendees learn about the historical evolution of research, and current regulations and guidelines including the Common Rule, FDA regulations and HIPAA. This session will discuss site and study staff responsibilities in the conduct and reporting of research, types of studies and the regulatory requirements that apply to different study designs. It will also discuss a variety of research including genetic, drug, device, and studies that use off-site or community partners. Current examples will be used and the audience will be invited to share their experiences and information. 

Get your HIPAA compliance right in six simple steps

The most important element that Covered Entities and Business Associates must keep in mind while carrying out HIPAA audits is best summarized in the words of Jocelyn Samuels, the top Federal official in charge of HIPAA enforcement. To quote her own words, Covered Entities and Business Associates must ensure compliance through “... a comprehensive and thorough approach to assessing and addressing the risks to all of the Protected Health Information (PHI) they maintain”.

Although Risk Analysis is mandatory; HIPAA audits of 2012 showed that as many as four fifths of health care providers failed to comply with this mandatory requirement. Covered Entities and Business Associates are under severe pressure to do a HIPAA Risk Analysis of all the PHI’s they maintain. Most of this, they are expected to do on their own. This explains perhaps just why 80% of health care providers failed to do the Risk Analysis, a fact discovered by the HHS. In fact, the incidence of HIPAA violations has been increasing so steeply that 2015 was sardonically referred to in HIPAA circles as the “Year of the Breach”. This fact leads to the next important point: higher and greater number of government enforcement and private lawsuits.

Learn the ways of getting HIPAA compliance right in just six simple steps

The above facts make it absolutely imperative for Covered Entities and Business Associates to get every aspect of the HIPAA compliance right, in the manner suggested by Jocelyn Samuels. This is precisely what GlobalCompliancePanel, a highly renowned provider of professional trainings for all areas of regulatory compliance, will be imparting at a two-day, in person seminar. To enroll for his event, just visit

http://www.globalcompliancepanel.com/control/globalseminars/~product_id=900616SEMINAR?master-HIPAA-compliance-six-steps-San-Diego.

The Director of this highly meaningful and valuable seminar is the well-known expert on HIPAA compliance, Paul Hales. Paul’s credentials get augmented by the fact that he has, with a team of expert advisors and practical field testers, created a method of making all HIPAA regulations accessible to the everyday person. Paul’s method explains all the aspects of HIPAA in uncomplicated and simple language and carries the exact citations to each regulation. This method is directed at organizations’ legal counsel who may not be well versed or experienced in HIPAA, and will be a major part of this seminar. 

Major benefits by learning from the expert

Organizations that are required to carry out HIPAA audits will gain enormously from this seminar. It will help them to save money, time, and research. Paul will discuss how Business Associates and Covered Entities can grow their practice and be compliant. His method will serve as the very foundation on which organization can implement their HIPAA Compliance Program. Most importantly, he will teach how they can grow what is most valuable to their business: Their patients. Paul’s HIPAA compliance method, which consists of six easy steps, will create a level of quality to the advice that the legal counsel provides.

He will take participants of this seminar through a Risk Analysis for their organization and will also delve into the Privacy, Breach, and Security Rules as applicable to their particular organization. 

Business Process Management in Healthcare helps reduce inefficiencies

For many years before the advent of automation and computerization; healthcare processes, such as billing, admissions, and many elements of care were carried out manually. Although it was a capable method to quite an extent, it relied on the use of the manual process or the human method. This was always prone to mistakes and errors, because humans are prone to committing errors that can creep in even with the best of intentions, as a result of which the healthcare industry ended up losing billions of dollars that could otherwise have gone into meaningful forms of investment.

A result of technological developments

This is why Business Process Management (BPM) in Healthcare came into existence with the advent of and as a byproduct of automation. Business process management in healthcare is being considered a major step in helping healthcare settings reduce costs and inefficiencies. When a unit implements business process management in healthcare; there is an automatic reduction in errors and inefficiencies. Let us see how:

Impetus from the higher authorities

There is now a general tendency and effort to push for automation in the healthcare industry. Even the American Congress has been aggressively pushing for reforms in the healthcare industry, a prime feature of which is fostering business process management in healthcare. Overall, BPM in healthcare is a means for improving efficiencies throughout the healthcare chain and bringing about greater integration and accountability through automation.

Core areas of business process management in healthcare

Business process management in healthcare is useful across the healthcare process chain, but is particularly so in at least there important areas:

Billing:This is one of the prime areas in which business process management in healthcare can make a huge difference. With complete automation of this critical area of business, healthcare units ensure that there is total coordination and traceability of the billing process.

Software:Apart from billing, another area in which business process management in healthcare helps tremendously is software. Software applications can bring about a huge change in the speed of operations. This area of BPM in healthcare reduces the need for human intervention at various stages of the business process.

Big data:Another of the areas in which business process management in healthcare holds huge promise is big data. Big data can help to make sense of various data used inhealthcare administration and disease management across entire geographies. This makes the role of business process management in healthcare all the more meaningful and exciting.

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