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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

Though the government has learnt lessons in the past, and though it has codified some aspects of these lessons into our laws and policies relating to public health, it has always used a disease lens in the application of the lessons learned as opposed to a human rights lens.

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The UN Must Take Steps To Be an Accountable Player in Public Health

Bill of Health

In at least two major incidents in the last two decades, the United Nations has been responsible for major public health crises, and victims of the crises have found themselves with no recourse in any court system. One case in which the UN caused public health harms is relatively well-known.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

To design systems and policies that promote the right to health, a holistic and proactive approach is needed, one in which people, institutions, and corporations have a shared responsibility in promoting physical, mental, and social well-being. health care system. America is the only wealthy nation to lack universal health coverage.

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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy

Bill of Health

Government Patent Use to Promote Public Health in the United States: Overcoming Nonpatent Exclusivities. Am J Public Health. Cancer Therapy Approval Timings, Review Speed, and Publication of Pivotal Registration Trials in the US and Europe, 2010-2019. JAMA Intern Med. 2022 Jun 6. Epub ahead of print.

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Weekly Health Care Real Estate Briefing: CMS Releases Plan to End Public Health Emergency I Construction Starts Way Up I Colliers and Fitch Publish Mid-Year Hospital Outlook Reports

Hall Render

CMS released a roadmap for ending the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (“PHE”). CMS will be terminating numerous regulatory waivers that were put in place to offer flexibility to health care providers during the pandemic and will give notice to providers 60 days before ending the PHE. Kaiser announced a $1.7B

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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. The next step would be to achieve real interoperability in health records, a still elusive goal.

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$15M Singapore-London partnership to help stem APAC's growing healthcare cybersecurity woes

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In Singapore's public health facilities, for example, about 15% or over 16,000 medical devices have Internet connectivity. The four-year grant will support research which is believed to have applications in a broad range of medical devices, including continuous glucose monitors, smart electronic skin patches, and activity monitors.

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