LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS25 last week at HIMSS25, a panel of healthcare interoperability leaders convened for an ad hoc discussion about the continued evolution of FHIR API-based data exchange. The next ten years or so. Session moderator Leavitt Partners Principal Ryan Howells emphasized that panel talk is not a political debate. The session, “Dropping the Clipboard: Doge and the Trump Administration's Policy Ideas” shares the name with the recent Leavitt Partners Whitepaper, which served as the basis for the discussion. “The election is over,” Howells said. “We are now in the next four years of administration priorities, the next…
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The government has introduced new rules that will require social care sector employers to prioritise hiring migrant workers already in England before recruiting from overseas. From 9 April, English care providers that wish to recruit a new worker from abroad will have to prove that they have attempted to employ someone already in the country who needs new visa sponsorship, according to a statement issued by the Home Office. “A full government-led investigation, beginning urgently, is the only way to identify the scale and types of exploitation taking place” Claire Sutton The new rules – laid in parliament earlier this…
The balanced FCA model and the SAA indexTo conduct our study, we used the balanced FCA (bFCA) model developed previously22 and used in other studies20,61,62. Conceptually, an FCA model computes the ratio of supply to demand within a catchment area centered at each supplier’s location, and then ‘floats’ these catchment areas over population centers to determine the allocation of the available resources to each of the demand sites. Catchment areas are delimited by specifying a maximum one-way travel time between the supplier’s location and the demand site. The bFCA model has an important advantage over the other types of FCA…
The hospital where Lucy Letby murdered babies is now being investigated for gross negligence manslaughter as well as corporate manslaughter, police have announced. Cheshire Constabulary has released a statement saying that its corporate manslaughter investigation into the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has been “widened”. “We will not be confirming the number of people involved or their identity” Paul Hughes The scope of the investigation now includes gross negligence manslaughter, which is where a death is caused by an otherwise lawful but grossly negligent “act or omission” by an individual or individuals. The corporate manslaughter investigation, which is…
A neonatal nurse and a hospice midwife, who run a project that supports bereaved mothers of newborns to donate breast milk in memory of their child, have spoken about the “snowballing” success of the scheme. The Memory Milk Gift Initiative was set up in 2021 as part of the Milk Bank @ Chester, which is based at Chester at Countess of Chester Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and supplies donor breast milk to neonatal units across England and Wales. “We came across a lot of barriers. Healthcare professionals were pretty nervous about getting involved” Laura Atherton Laura Atherton, registered nurse and…
Eyal Shamir is the CEO of Icecure Medical, the developer of the frozen bud version system for the destruction of benign and cancerous tumors. Getty We are witnessing a wide range of new technologies, including AI, self-driving cars, and robotics, which are dramatically changing the way we live and do our business. Such disruptive technologies are everywhere, and medicine is no exception. The possibility of bringing new life-saving medical technologies to the market is exciting, but it is not without challenges. What drives the disruptive technology of medical devices? The motivation behind new medical device innovations is simple yet powerful.…
Maile Sakamoto MS'24 always knew she wanted to make a difference in people's lives through health care, but she didn't realize that data was a tool for her impact. After working as a medical assistant, Sakamoto decided he wanted to invest in his passion for data analysis and enrolled in Willamette's Top Rank Master's Data Science Program. Coursework spanning data ethics, cybersecurity, and applied machine learning has gained Sakamoto the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the job market. Now she's working as an informaticsist for health insurance giant Humana. “As a healthcare data analyst, I can evaluate programs…
Amidst financial difficulties and inadequate pay, many Iranian nurses are forced into disastrous living conditions, such as sleeping in cars, working as online taxi drivers, and sharing overcrowded accommodations. According to official statistics, around 19 nurses, doctors and hospital technicians leave Iran every day due to financial struggles. Iranian newspaper Ham Mihan reports that despite nurses earning maximum monthly salary of 14-15 million torman (about $200) and receiving only 25,000 torman per hour in overtime, their income barely covers basic living expenses. As a result, nursing professionals have witnessed mass escapes both domestically and internationally. Housing Crisis and Forced Transition…
Pennsylvania's lawyer, Luigi Mangion, continues to argue that Altoona police have illegally detained the murder suspect and searched for his belongings. Mangion, 26, is charged with first-degree murder in both New York and Pennsylvania, promoting terrorist acts, stalkers, and other state and federal charges, allegedly fired two married fathers, Brian Thompson, on a sidewalk in Manhattan in December 2024. Now, his lawyers say the authorities' use of the term “manifesto” is “wrong” to describe Mangion's work, which he allegedly found in a backpack during his December 9 arrest. “The use of this characterization of the defendant's personal experience and doubts…
Health visitors have been urged to recognise the specific risks and barriers faced by minority ethnic babies, children and families, following a review into the role that racism plays in child safeguarding failings. The Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, an independent body set up in 2018 to oversee reviews of serious child safeguarding cases, this week published a report about safeguarding children from Black, Asian and mixed heritage backgrounds. “It’s imperative that we acknowledge the specific risks and barriers faced by Black, Asian, and mixed heritage children” Georgina Mayes The report explored what happened to 53 children from these racial…