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Addressing Preventable Harm in Healthcare

Dossier

According to the World Health Organization , around 1 in every 10 patients is harmed in healthcare, and more than 3 million deaths occur annually due to unsafe care. Conclusion The challenges of preventable harm in healthcare are significant, yet they present a valuable opportunity for transformative progress.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

Legally speaking, patent pledges are comparable to the open source software licenses that underlie much of the world’s technology infrastructure and the Creative Commons licenses that make billions of online images, videos and other content freely available (both discussed here ). Tesla and Toyota) to software (e.g,

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2023 – January

SQA

A new template for the Certificate of a Pharmaceutical Product will be put into use in line with China’s pharmaceutical export practices and the latest World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. A concerted and collaborative effort is essential to address this threat to global health, economies, and security effectively.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

Patents and trade secrets empower private actors to make decisions about pricing, production, and supply of important medical technologies — in short, about public health. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance.

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Automating Accessibility in Health IT – Part 2

Healthcare IT Today

Automated tools can determine whether alt text is present, but not whether it accurately reflects what the picture is trying to say. When Deque felt that Axe-core was ready, it released the library as free and open source software (under the Mozilla Public License 2.0). UserWay offers one of these. This was a bold move that paid off.

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Healthcare AI and Automation: Good or Bad?

Healthcare IT Today

Derek Streat, Co-Founder & CEO at DexCare In today’s market, health system leaders and decision-makers are looking to identify areas that could be improved with automation, especially in areas where there’s an opportunity to augment resource availability and staff capabilities to enable top-of-license care.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2022 – September/October

SQA

The EC presented a first draft for public comment to the revision of Annex 1 in 2017. Since health authorities have not yet published guidelines for a comprehensive control strategy specific to microbiological topics for ATMPs, it is up to the individual ATMP sponsor or license holder to apply these compendial references properly.

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