article thumbnail

Ethics Education in U.S. Medical Schools’ Curricula

Bill of Health

By 2002, approximately 79 percent of U.S. In response to this, in 1977, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine became the first medical school to incorporate ethics education into its curriculum. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, medical schools increasingly began to incorporate ethics education into their curricula.

article thumbnail

AI’s Executive Order and Its Key Healthcare Implications 

Healthcare Law Blog

Within one year, the HHS AI Task Force must develop a strategic plan on the responsible deployment and use of AI-enabled technologies in the health sector, including guidance, policies, and regulatory action to protect AI deployment. Incentivize Responsible AI Innovation.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Accessing COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines for Research: The Re-emergence of the Tragedy of the ‘Anticommons’

Bill of Health

This defense has been applied rarely, since research is usually connected to a commercial objective. The defense has been narrowed down over the years and “not for profit” status of an entity is not determinative ( Madey v. Duke University, 307 F.3d 3d 1351 (Fed.

COVID-19 167
article thumbnail

Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

Risks of social determinants of health like paying for housing, utilities, and food, have been a greater burden during the public health crisis for Black people (32%) and Hispanic folks (28%) than for White people in America (17%), with an average of 22% at-risk for SDoH factors. population by a factor of 2 to 1.

article thumbnail

The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

McKinsey’s report included a chart akin to the one above from Manhattan Institute, graphically illustrating the growth of household costs with education, health care and housing fast-growing between 2002 and 2018. These costs erode and overwhelm the wage picture shown in the third vertical bar chart. did not save for old age.

article thumbnail

Behavioral Health Side-Effects in the COVID Era

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: What Senator Paul Wellstone advocated for and knew way back in 2000 was that mental health is just part of health, and needed to be embedded into primary care and the U.S. health care system in terms of workflow and payment parity. Paul died in a plane crash in 2002.

COVID-19 131
article thumbnail

HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Among her recent work, Wise is in the process of implementing an industry leading population health tool, has conducted a rapid rollout of an acute and ambulatory telehealth to meet the needs of the COVID-19 public health emergency.