Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 28, 2023

Stephanie Deitrick, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the City of Tempe, to learn more about their public health initiatives and how it relates to being a 20-minute city. Using GIS Technology for Healthier Living In 2012, Kent Larson described the concept of a 20-minute city in a TED Talk.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

Perhaps the best definition of patient safety is that of the World Health Organization. Simply put, it is “…the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care.” In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates. Patient safety initiatives have taken many forms.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“I’m in Berlin, and we don’t like walls,” Bart De Witte responded in a concluding Q&A session yesterday at the 2 nd Symposium on the Future of Health Systems, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Porto on 5 th September.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 11, 2023

It may very well fall to a rehearing en banc and/or the Supreme Court—each stocked with mostly “conservative” jurists—to restore some sanity to the mad world where FDA approvals can be wiped out retroactively more than two decades later. Brief at 19-20 (quoting Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs v. Sebelius , 671 F.3d 3d 1275, 1283 (D.C.

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