Healthcare institutions continue to serve foods of poor nutritional quality in their vending machines, cafeterias, and patient meals. If they are really committed to supporting better access to nutritious foods, then they need to remove junk food from their campuses.
In the earliest iterations of federal care for aging and disabled former service members, officials saw achieving a balance between the desire for efficiency and the need to provide American veterans with comfort and good care as not only possible, but essential. When the quest for efficiency upended this balance in the past, previous administrations have listened to veterans who objected. If the Trump Administration begins to focus on maximizing efficiency at any cost, and ignores warnings about how it weakens care, they will be ignoring a formula that has governed since the 19th century.
Patients can access their own health records — including test results — as soon as they're available. While it might sound beneficial, in some cases, people are receiving life-changing diagnoses before their doctors have a chance to speak with them. The accessibility is due to legislation that went into effect in 2021 called the 21st Century Cures Act. It is designed to give patients easier access to electronic health records and quicker access to medical innovations, but experts say it comes with an unintended side effect.
Three hundred and twenty-one cases have been reported in the ongoing measles outbreak in Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma, the states said Tuesday. This is an increase of 25 cases since an update on Friday.
Idahoans are increasingly aware that Idaho ranks last in the nation in physicians per capita, and that our acute and growing shortage of physicians and limited access to medical care leads to sicker and less healthy populations. Today, 43 of 44 Idaho counties are designated health professions shortage areas.
The federal government, health care providers, nonprofits, academics and others are embracing the concept that you can be healthier or sicker depending on what you eat.