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Mashup Score: 25David Oliver: Short term health policy decisions have long term risks that we should anticipate and mitigate - 3 month(s) ago
Whether in the private, public, or third sector, most organisations of any size include risk assessment, risk rating, and risk management as part of good corporate governance. This includes government departments and arm’s length bodies responsible for health and social care policy and leadership. Once risks have been assessed and their likelihood and severity rated, a standard framework (embraced by the government itself) involves the “4 Ts” of terminating, tolerating, treating, or transferring them to other parties.1 The strengths of UK health systems include being universal, needs based, free at the point of care, efficient, and relatively free of upfront payments that can deter people from seeking help, while allowing a component of central planning and national initiatives, datasets, and improvement incentives. But they also attract criticism for being overly centralised and top-down, with decision making not sufficiently devolved to local service leaders or communities, and—by vi
Source: www.bmj.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 25David Oliver: Short term health policy decisions have long term risks that we should anticipate and mitigate - 3 month(s) ago
Whether in the private, public, or third sector, most organisations of any size include risk assessment, risk rating, and risk management as part of good corporate governance. This includes government departments and arm’s length bodies responsible for health and social care policy and leadership. Once risks have been assessed and their likelihood and severity rated, a standard framework (embraced by the government itself) involves the “4 Ts” of terminating, tolerating, treating, or transferring them to other parties.1 The strengths of UK health systems include being universal, needs based, free at the point of care, efficient, and relatively free of upfront payments that can deter people from seeking help, while allowing a component of central planning and national initiatives, datasets, and improvement incentives. But they also attract criticism for being overly centralised and top-down, with decision making not sufficiently devolved to local service leaders or communities, and—by vi
Source: www.bmj.comCategories: General Medicine News, General HCPsTweet
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Mashup Score: 38Healthcare services stuck in “doom loop” from short term policy making, think tank warns - 6 month(s) ago
UK public services including general practice, hospitals, and adult social care are stuck in a “doom loop” as a result of quick fix policy decisions and years of underinvestment, a think tank has warned. In its annual report on the state of public services, the Institute for Government said that health and care services were performing worse than they were before the pandemic and were in a much worse state than in 2010 when the Conservatives took office.1 Unless serious action is taken to improve productivity, services will remain in a “perpetual state of crisis,” it warned. “Public services that have for years been creaking …
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Mashup Score: 18
A discussion draft of a policy proposed by Sens. Chris Coons, Marsha Blackburn and others would, if made into law, offer a legal recourse for people “cloned” by artificial intelligence software without their consent.
Source: www.latimes.comCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0So why is the medical device lobby suing the Library of Congress? - 7 month(s) ago
It turns out the U.S. Library of Congress isn’t just the country’s oldest federal cultural institution, nor simply the home of a lovely Beaux-Arts reading room on Capitol Hill. | The Library of Congress has recently become a battleground over the right to repair, including for high-tech imaging machines and surgical robots.
Source: www.fiercebiotech.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0India Aims To Boost Medical Device Industry With New Initiative - 7 month(s) ago
India’s government has approved a new initiative aiming for a 20% annual growth rate for medical devices, which is dubbed as a “Sunrise Sector.” The initiative will streamline regulations, add a new push for manufacturing capacity, and strengthen opportunities for R&D collaboration. The aim is for both local and global companies to benefit.
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Mashup Score: 0NASA Names New Head of Technology, Policy, Strategy - NASA - 7 month(s) ago
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced Monday Charity Weeden will serve as associate administrator for the agency’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), effective immediately. Weeden succeeds Bhavya Lal, who left the agency in July, and Ellen Gertsen, who had been serving as the office’s acting leader since then.
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Mashup Score: 0
Background Safe blood is essential for the care of patients with life-threatening anemia and hemorrhage. Low blood donation rates, inefficient testing procedures, and other supply chain disruptions in blood administration affect patients in low-resource settings across Sub-Saharan countries, including Kenya. Most efforts to improve access to transfusion have been unidimensional, usually focusing on only point along the blood system continuum, and have excluded community stakeholders from early stages of intervention development. Context-appropriate interventions to improve the availability of safe blood at the point of use in low-resource settings are of paramount importance. Thus, this protocol proposes a multifaceted approach to characterize the Kenyan blood supply chain through quantitative and qualitative analyses as well as an industrial engineering approach. Methods This study will use a mixed-methods approach in addition to engineering process mapping, modeling and simulation of
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.@NIH_NHLBI-funded investigators publish #protocol for #BLOODSAFE #Kenya🇰🇪 See the conceptual #model's 3x3x3 matrix components: #pathways #settings #systems. #HIV #SDOH #GlobalHealth #ImpSci @NHLBI_BLOODDir @Fogarty_NIH @PEPFAR #policy #evidence @NIH Read https://t.co/m0jqlua4Ge https://t.co/eseHXnBxip
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Mashup Score: 0State Telepharmacy Policies and Pharmacy Deserts - 8 month(s) ago
This cohort study investigates whether US state-level telepharmacy policy is associated with pharmacy deserts and access to pharmacy services.
Source: jamanetwork.comCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Physicians 'gravely concerned' about CMS' proposed 3.34% pay cut - 10 month(s) ago
Groups like AMA & MGMA are raising concerns over CMS’ proposed 2024 Medicare physician payment schedule.
Source: www.beckershospitalreview.comCategories: Healthcare Professionals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
Plenty that has happened in the NHS in recent years was “a breach in the duty of care leading to a harm that was foreseeable and reasonably preventable". Short term health #policy decisions have long term risks, says @mancunianmedic https://t.co/nBiLWr8yNx