State officials “are looking at all options’’ after the Biden administration appeared to halt Georgia’s upcoming plan for increasing Medicaid enrollment. | READ MORE
Biden administration to undo Medicaid work requirements
Associated Press
The Biden administration is moving to roll back Medicaid work requirements in its latest effort to undo a controversial Trump-era policy. |READ MORE
New enrollment window opens for health insurance shoppers
Associated Press
A [health insurance] sign-up window opened Monday for government insurance markets and runs through May 15 in most states. It’s available for people who don’t have coverage through work, and it is expected to make finding a plan less of a hassle for those who lost a job.|READ MORE
New dashboard sheds light on Georgia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout
Fox 5 Atlanta
[Georgia] started publishing a new and much more detailed online vaccine dashboard. The dashboard, which is posted on the Georgia Department of Public Health's website, breaks down both statewide and individual county vaccine numbers.|READ MORE
COVID-19 shots might be tweaked if variants get worse
Associated Press
The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations –and regulators are looking to flu as a blueprint if and when the shots need an update.|READ MORE
Families fear ‘heartbreaking’ cuts in [Georgia] disability programs
Georgia Health News
Georgia’s Department of Community Health, which runs the state’s Medicaid program, has proposed changes that may cut the current support hours for Matt Gaffney and 187 other Georgians with severe medical or behavioral health needs. |READ MORE
Prominent scientists call on CDC to better protect workers from COVID
Kaiser Health News
A prominent group of academics is pressing the Biden administration to move faster and take stronger action to protect high-risk workers from airborne exposure to the coronavirus, urging enforceable standards to help safeguard risky workplaces including health care, food processing and prisons.|READ MORE
Latinos face barriers like fear, language in getting vaccine
Associated Press
America’s more than 60 million Latinos –like other people of color –have been disproportionately affected by the virus, and many are struggling with issues like a lack of knowledge about the shots, state vaccine websites that don’t have Spanish instructions, ways to find appointments in their communities, and fears they could be targeted for immigration enforcement. |READ MORE
Black and Latino churches [in Savannah] join COVID fight in vaccine partnership with local hospital
Savannah Now
A new effort is bringing the power of local Black and Latino churches to the fight against the coronavirus. |READ MORE
Reckoning with medicine’s history of racism (by AMA CEO & Executive VP James Madara, M.D.)
AMA Wire
As we grapple with AMA’s 174-year history, we must acknowledge that decisions by AMA leaders contributed to a health care system plagued by inequities and injustices that harmed patients and systemically excluded many from our physician ranks. |READ MORE
Opioid overdoses 29% higher in 2020 than before the pandemic: Study
Yahoo News
In a large cross-sectional study published in JAMA Psychiatry on February 3 that analyzed nearly 190 million emergency department (ED) visits, researchers found significantly higher rates of visits to EDs for opioid overdoses during the months of March to October 2020 when compared against the same dates in 2019.|READ MORE
U.S. health care system could save $16.3 billion through workflow automation
Healthcare Finance News
The U.S. health care industry is missing out on billions of dollars in potential annual savings by manually completing common business transactions, according to the Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare's 2020 Index.|READ MORE
Ethics researchers warn of health care AI’s potential for widening gaps between haves and have-nots
AI in Healthcare
Health care AI is advancing too quickly for its users to fully comprehend the implications of its design, development and applications, according to bioethics specialists who scanned the literature and have had their findings published in BMC Medical Ethics.|READ MORE
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