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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

Dmitry’s talk, “Evergreening: The FDA’s Role in the Creation of Balanced Rights for Pharmaceutical Improvements,” was developed into an article and published in the Iowa Law Review in 2019 titled “The More Things Change: Improvement Patents, Drug Modifications, and the FDA.”

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

Health Populi

In 2019, an emerging concern is how the growth in adoption of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing among health care organizations – particularly, insurance plans, providers, and pharma. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. s, birthday. .

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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The Remarkable Rise of Pharma’s Reputation in the Pandemic

Health Populi

Most health citizens, hoping for a way out of the public health crisis, are counting on science to liberate both lives and livelihoods. In my book Health Citizenship: how a virus opened up hearts and minds , I discuss how the pandemic has moved more patients as health consumers toward their health citizenship.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

counties revealed that most of observed racial disparities for COVID-19 deaths persisted after controlling for overall 2019 mortality rates and COVID-19 cases per 100,000. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.