Kindness and empathy seem to be in short supply in today’s world. All the more reason to make the extra effort to demonstrate their power in our professional and personal lives.
By Paul Cerrato, MA,…
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Poor interoperability between digital systems and challenges with GP registration processes in prisons are causing risks to patient safety, according to an investigation by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB).
The report, ‘Healthcare provision…
Virtual healthcare provider HealthTap is collaborating with correctional healthcare company NaphCare to provide virtual primary care and urgent care to individuals in halfway houses and transition centers. Through the collaboration, incarcerated people from federal prisons…
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NHS England has issued a pre-procurement notice for an £18 million electronic patient record (EPR) system covering the justice system.
The EPR will be used to capture health record data across prisons, youth referral services…
By Anuja Vaidya
March 06, 2024 – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California has sentenced a former physician to 37 months in federal prison for illegally prescribing medications, including opioid-based drugs,…
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About 44% of people in jail and 37% of people in prison have a mental illness. In addition, 63% of people in jail and 58% of people in prison have a substance use disorder….
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Hilton Hudson, MD, FACS, and CEO of HPC International
In May 2022, a California doctor was sentenced to nearly eight years in prison for his involvement in a $12 million Medicare fraud scheme. His crime: performing unnecessary…
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In the 1980s, Haner Hernández only requested to attend a drug treatment program in order to get out of prison. Back then, he was only approved to be released from prison and go into…
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