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Legal Preparedness for Aging and Caregiving

Bill of Health

During 2013 and 2014, I endured a very difficult 18 months. As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. By Sharona Hoffman.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. This last chart from a 2014 PwC/Strategy& report on the birth of the healthcare consumer is data I often turned to as U.S.

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Data Well-Being: A Pillar of Health Citizenship for US Consumers

Health Populi

I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used. Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

government. (In We could have joined with our global health citizens and governments to share information and patents for what are public health products — vaccines, therapies, preventive strategies — to hasten development and goodwill. The complete list is included below the digital fold in the Hot Points). #7: