Not exercising worse than smoking
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Wayne Drash reports for CNN on Oct. 20, 2018:
We've all heard exercise helps you live longer. But a
new study posted to
JAMA goes one step further, finding that a sedentary lifestyle is worse for your health than smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
Dr. Wael Jaber, a cardiologist at the
Cleveland Clinic and senior author of the study, called the results "extremely surprising."
WIM
"Being unfit on a treadmill or in an exercise stress test has a worse prognosis, as far as death, than being hypertensive, being diabetic or being a current smoker," Jaber told CNN. "We've never seen something as pronounced as this and as objective as this."
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Health Policy: A Top Priority in D.C.
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Former Congressman
Jeff Miller sits down with leading
McDermott, Will & Emery D.C. Health Industry Advisory partner,
Eric Zimmerman, to consider the
Affordable Care Act's fate, state-level
Medicaid expansion and prescription drug pricing.
WIM
Regardless of the midterm outcomes, health care policy will remain nationally prevalent.
Posted 10.17.18
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Anthem Pays OCR $16 Million in Record HIPAA Settlement Following Largest U.S. Health Data Breach in History
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HHS.gov reports on
Oct. 15, 2018:
Anthem, Inc. has agreed to pay $16 million to the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and take substantial corrective action to settle potential violations of the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and Security Rules after a series of cyberattacks led to the largest U.S. health data breach in history and exposed the electronic protected health information of almost 79 million people.
WIM
"The largest health data breach in U.S. history fully merits the largest HIPAA settlement in history," said OCR Director
Roger Severino. "Unfortunately, Anthem failed to implement appropriate measures for detecting hackers who had gained access to their system to harvest passwords and steal people's private information." Director Severino continued, "We know that large health care entities are attractive targets for hackers, which is why they are expected to have strong password policies and to monitor and respond to security incidents in a timely fashion or risk enforcement by OCR."
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