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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The following 10 predictions that we have made for the global healthcare will define new ways of rethinking business and growth opportunities in 2021, and will help determine the future direction of the industry. By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally.

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The Case for Procurement Transparency

Bill of Health

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Biotech Companies Are Opening Manufacturing Sites in Africa: Will This Help Vaccine Equity?

Bill of Health

Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary 3 | Monthly Update 2021

SQA

SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary #3, 2021. Commission Extends Transparency and Authorization Mechanism for Exports of COVID-19 Vaccines, 11 March 2021. The EC has extended until the end of June 2021 the transparency and authorization mechanism for COVID-19 vaccine exports.

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COVID ‘Compromise’ on International IP Underscores Need for New Approach

Bill of Health

Current vaccine and treatment inequity was not inevitable. Early on in the pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed IP owners voluntarily license IP to others to ensure affordable COVID treatments. Existing international and domestic IP rules allow IP owners to voluntarily share their IP rights.

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COVID-19 Update: More Reflections on a Pandemic

Health Law Pulse

A little over one week later, we reported that the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency after COVID-19 was detected in eighteen countries, infecting almost 10,000 people and killing more than two hundred.

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Vaccine credentials enabling wider progress on public health interoperability

Healthcare It News

First announced in January 2021, the Vaccine Credential Initiative – co-founded by MITRE Corporation and others including Cerner, Change Healthcare, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce and others – has made big progress over the past year-plus on new approaches to interoperable record-keeping.