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Biosafety Labs, Public Safety, and Politics

Bill of Health

dollars (USD) and additional government losses at $11 billion USD due to controlling livestock movement and depopulating infected livestock. The decision to site the lab at Kansas State was only made in 2009 and that was after a long site selection competition. By November of 2008, a new President was elected. Who was she?

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Regulators Need to Pay More Attention to Long-term and Nursing Care

Healthcare IT Today

But these facilities are afterthoughts in our health care system, and were excluded in particular from the huge digitization of health care triggered in the United States by the 2009 HITECH act and 2010 Affordable Care Act.

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Using Legal Preparedness to Minimize Liability Barriers to Accessing Pandemic Vaccine and Medical Countermeasures

Bill of Health

Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Governments may face difficult policy decisions in their attempts to expeditiously control the spread of disease. Government, the U.S.

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Enacting Care Coordination Policy to Curb the Drug Epidemic

HIT Consultant

Vatsala Kapur, Senior Director of Government Affairs at Bamboo Health. To meaningfully improve mental health care and outcomes, the federal government must take steps to integrate mental health information into our clinician’s workflows. 111-5), mental health providers were left out of the equation. About Vatsala Kapur.

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Global Healthcare Cyberattacks Increased by 74% in 2022

HIPAA Journal

With that increase, healthcare rose to become the third most attacked industry globally behind the government/military with 1,661 attacks a week (+46%) and education/research with 2,314 attacks a week (+43%). In 2009, the HHS started publishing a summary of reported healthcare data breaches of 500 or more records.

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Healthcare Organizations Warned About Evil Corp. Cybercrime Syndicate

HIPAA Journal

The group operates out of Russia and has been operational since at least 2009 and is responsible for the infamous Dridex banking Trojan and several other ransomware and malware variants, including BitPaymer, Hades, Phoenixlocker, WastedLocker, SocGholish, GameOver Zeus, and JabberZeus.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

Bill of Health

By 2009, before Moderna’s patent application, scientists knew that the full-length spike protein is highly immunogenic and can be used to induce protection against certain viruses. government committed more than one billion dollars to Moderna for development of its COVID-19 vaccines. Indeed, as made public, the U.S.