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How to Construct Better Organ Donation Policy and Achieve Health Equity

Bill of Health

Per results from a 2003 study, in Germany — a country with an opt-in system requiring individuals to sign up for the organ donation registry — donation rates were estimated to be around 12%. Such nudges can come in many forms, but one simple and cost-effective path forward may be mere advertising and government messaging changes.

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Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War

Bill of Health

Many governments have welcomed Ukrainian pets with or without their owners, and without documentation, rabies vaccine, and/or microchip. What kind of ethics are we talking about? The EU announced a special derogation in Regulation 2013/576, allowing the import of Ukrainian refugee pets without meeting standard requirements.

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OCR Enforcement of HIPAA Right of Access and Release of Information (ROI

AIHC

Enforcement of the Privacy Rule began April 14, 2003, for most HIPAA covered entities. Since 2003, OCR's enforcement activities have obtained significant results that have improved the privacy practices of covered entities. The Office for Civil Rights is responsible for enforcing the Privacy and Security Rules.

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Healthcare Cybersecurity – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

The HIPAA Security Rule was drafted in 2003 and has not been substantively updated since that time. Regulatory drivers such as updated SEC rules in the US and Europe’s NIS 2 and DORA will further the conversation about adoption of out-of-band communications for right-of-bang incident response.

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Which Situations Allow a Medical Professional to Release Information?

HIPAA Journal

It is fair to say there is a fair amount of misunderstanding both within and outside the healthcare industry about which situations allow a medical professional to release information. The page reveals that, since 2003, the agency has received more than 300,000 complaints alleging violations of HIPAA. Under §56.10

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Only in America: The Loss of Health Insurance as a Toxic Financial Side Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Health Populi

Census Bureau found that the level of health insurance enrollment fell by 1 million people in 2019 , with about 30 million Americans not covered by health insurance. By September 2020, about 36 million people in the U.S. In terms of income, U.S. However, the U.S. million people in 2017. lacked health insurance.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The article returns to the advent of the SARS epidemic in China in 2003, which ushered in a series of events: people stayed home, and Chinese social media and e-commerce proliferated. Check out this last public health poster about Medicare and COVID-19. Joseph Health (literally “Ground Zero” for Patient 1 of COVID-19 in the U.S.)

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