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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. The post How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies appeared first on Bill of Health.

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The International Weaponization of Health Data

Bill of Health

In 2019, China announced a new law prohibiting Chinese organizations from sharing genetic data with foreign groups without government approval. Government officials recently have expressed concern about the open-access sharing of U.K. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has also chimed in on the flow of U.S.

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

Health Populi

Most industries lost citizens’ trust between 2020 and 2021, most notably, Technology, dropping the greatest margin at 9 points. Healthcare experienced a bounce in the one year 2020-21, rising from 56 points of trust among U.S. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic.

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

Health Populi

Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. He kicked off his lessons focusing in on a theme that would resonate with the HIMSS audience: “COVID changed our relationship with technology forever.”. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S.,

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

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. adults 18 and over in mid-June 2020 to gauge peoples’ perspectives on health data and privacy. consumers felt in April 2020 about sharing personal data with tech companies and federal agencies. The Harris Poll conducted the study among 2,065 U.S. Three-quarters of people in the U.S.

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Where Has All The Talent Gone? The Skills Gap Stalling The March of UK Life Sciences

HIT Consultant

Peter Kearney, Chief Operating Officer of Virdis Group The UK life sciences industry is burgeoning and, thanks in part to the role played by Covid in supercharging a range of sectors, it is on a path toward further expansion. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, recently stated his ambition for the country to become a life sciences ‘superpower’.

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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.