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Primary care news round-up (19th December 2024 to 1st January 2025)

Practice Index

A survey of doctors found that 99% were alarmed by the impact of increasing winter pressures, and 70% agreed that the NHS is in crisis mode all the year round. They concluded that the quality of safety netting advice improved between 2013 and 2020, and that clinician record-keeping improved.

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OCR’s Third Phase of HIPAA Compliance Audits Underway

The HIPAA Journal

Both rounds of audits identified widespread non-compliance with the HIPAA Rules, with most entities audited in the second phase found to have largely failed to successfully achieve HIPAA compliance. OCR investigates all data breaches that affect more than 500 individuals.

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I learned about medicine from that: aboard the La Rabida Children's hospital

Sensible Medicine

The children were a delight— you couldn't help but smile when you saw their cute faces on rounds, but the moment you reflected on what they were dealing with, the moment you thought of their parents or siblings, you would be crushed. A kid does something cute on rounds or makes a joke, and, we all laugh and smile.

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CMS targets fraudulent health insurance enrollments in new rule for ACA exchanges

Medical Economics

The COVID-19 pandemic spread in 2020, and Congress approved generous subsidies for health insurance in the American Rescue Plan of 2021 and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. The plans had high premium costs, so enrollment never reached projected levels, which undermined the competitiveness of the market.

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Water, Water, Everywhere. but Not a Drop to Drink

The Healthcare Blog

But to do so would be to accept that the event was an anomaly, or as Trump labeled it on Sunday on his way to a round of golf at Bedminster, “a hundred year catastrophe.” Grove/2020) Mike Magee M.D. is a Medical Historian and regular contributor to THCB. He is the author of CODE BLUE: Inside America’s Medical Industrial Complex.

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The She-Cession – a Financially Toxic Side-Effect of the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

This round of the pandemic Great Lockdown forced workers who could do so to work from home via online connections – their companies’ virtual private networks, and households’ broadband WiFi accounts. Men are still the primary breadwinners. “When the economy crumbled, women fell — hard.”

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Trust My Doctor and Fear the Office: The Telehealth Opportunity in and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

adults 18 to 74 years of age in the first week of May 2020. One in 5 of people with health insurance were concerned about losing their health plan in the next six months as the coronavirus heats up, recedes, and may re-emerge in the fourth quarter of 2020 into 2021. 42% felt uncomfortable going to a hospital for any medical treatment.