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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises. The United States had been ravaged for decades by a shape-shifting drug overdose crisis before the emergence of COVID-19. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. In recent years, some states leveraged the power of HIEs to identify COVID-19 hotspots in communities.

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What Has COVID Ever Done For Us? Here 9 Examples

HIT Consultant

The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. So, what other than advances in diagnostic technology, has the experience of Covid given us? Here are just a few examples. Artificial Intelligence .

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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. In short, the compromise only waives a single 20-word paragraph in one article: the one dealing with exports under a non-voluntary authorization.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports. The mechanism provides for authorizations of exports of COVID-19 vaccines outside the EU.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2022 – June

SQA

ANVISA published the RDC 702/2022, which repeals some requirements that were instituted to speed market approval of devices needed to treat patients during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Agency recently published the first list of critical medicines for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

SQA

ANVISA announced major updates to its Resolution of the Collegiate Board of Directors (RDC) 185/2001. 19 Medical Rehabilitation Equipment. It will also facilitate cross-border circulation of these critical health therapies as well as cross-border cooperation between public health authorities. CMDE Announcement No.

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