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Carle Illinois Students Awarded New Grant to Increase Access to Local Health Care; Expands Reach to Shelter Medicine | Carle Illinois College of Medicine
Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CI MED) students have received a new grant that will allow them to increase access to health care resources for the underinsured and uninsured. The students have been awarded the Family Medicine Cares USA existing clinic award grant from the American Academic of Family Physicians (AAFP). It was awarded for the CI MED students’ work and research at the Avicenna Community Health Center, a free clinic for the underinsured and uninsured in Champaign County, Illinois. The center provides longitudinal care to an underserved population that is unlikely to receive care otherwise. “Avicenna plays a pivotal role in increasing access to health care. It also…
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Amazon’s Creep Into Health Care Has Some Experts Spooked
Smith told WIRED that Amazon keeps patient health information confidential and secure in compliance with federal law and regulations, and in line with industry standards; Amazon Clinic customer data will be protected through the use of HIPAA-compliant encryption methods. “Protecting patient information is an important part of our business; we are not in the business of selling or sharing it,” Smith wrote. Amazon’s recent efforts to break into health care raise a more fundamental question: Should Big Tech even be allowed in the sector? The motivations of a private company—efficiency, optimization, and above all, profit—don’t exactly square with serving the public good, says Tamar Sharon, a professor at Radboud University…
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Why We Should Care About Environmental Health
Earth is the only place with perfect conditions for human existence. Nature supplies absolutely everything for our physical and mental well-being. With the human population increasing at an unprecedented rate over the past century, nature exploitation has also reached unsustainable levels; so high that many natural resources and living creatures are now at the verge of complete extinction. Sustainable development has not always been a priority and as a result, we live in polluted or even contaminated environment that harms our own health. Many health problems and deaths around the world as a consequence of unhealthy environments could be preventable or drastically reduced through efforts put into better environmental…
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How to fund home health care if you want to ‘age in place’
Halfpoint Images | Moment | Getty Images Some 70% of people want to age at home, yet only 10% have long-term care insurance, a recent HCG Secure/Arctos Foundation study found. Furthermore, about half of respondents had no idea how much in-home care would cost. With the median annual cost of a home health aide nationally estimated at $61,776, how are folks going to fund this? “The need for help at home is much more common than you think, but people don’t plan for it,” said certified financial planner Chris Chen, wealth strategist with Insight Financial Strategies in Newton, Massachusetts. Scoping out the insurance option landscape People with long-term care insurance…
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Health care organizations urge COVID & flu vaccination and treatment
Statement from: American Academy of Family Physicians, American Association of Nurse Practitioners, American Academy of Physician Associates, American College of Emergency Physicians, American College of Physicians, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Geriatrics Society, American Medical Association, American Osteopathic Association, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, Infectious Diseases Society of America, and AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine WASHINGTON November 21, 2022 – Given the anticipated increase in COVID-19 and influenza cases this fall and winter, America’s health care professional organizations are coming together to remind the public of the importance of vaccinations and early treatment. A strong recommendation from a trusted clinician is one of…
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Amazon makes a new push into health care
AS BIG tech companies face a brutal slow-down the hunt is on for new areas of expansion. Amazon, which is now America’s second-biggest business by revenue, is a case in point. In the final quarter of 2022 its sales are expected to expand by just 6.7% year on year. On November 17th Andy Jassy, Amazon’s chief executive, confirmed that the firm had begun laying off employees and would fire more next year. Mr Jassy said it was the most difficult decision he had made since becoming boss. But he also noted that “big opportunities” lay ahead. One that he highlighted is the largest, most lucrative and hellishly difficult businesses in…
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Posts misrepresent 2010 clip of Bill Gates discussing health care
CLAIM: A video shows billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates telling world leaders at the 2022 G-20 summit that “death panels” will soon be required. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The clip shows Gates in 2010 discussing health care and education systems at a forum hosted by the nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank the Aspen Institute, not at the G-20 meeting in Indonesia this week. While Gates did mention so-called “death panels” — a misleading term used by opponents of the Affordable Care Act — he was explaining why discussion about the cost of end-of-life care had become taboo. He never endorsed the idea. THE FACTS: Social media users are sharing a 12-year-old clip of…
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New health care regulators ask OneCare executives for measurable results
OneCare Vermont officials present their budget proposal to the Green Mountain Care Board in October 2019. From left: Vicki Loner, CEO; Tom Borys, vice president of finance and Sara Barry, COO. Photo by Mike Dougherty/VTDigger OneCare, the nonprofit that distributes millions of public and private health care dollars to providers throughout Vermont, has asked state regulators to greenlight a $15 million operating budget — a slight decrease from this year — as part of an annual review process. This is the first OneCare budget cycle for most members of the Green Mountain Care Board, the five-member body that regulates major players in Vermont’s health care sector, including hospitals. And the…
