Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

World Mental Health Day is October 10. This is an especially critical year for bringing global awareness to mental health. This unusual and unpredictable disruption to our lives has had a tremendous impact on people’s mental health around the world. youth aged 6-17 experience a mental health disorder each year.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 6, 2022

It only narrowly modifies compulsory licenses of patents covering COVID vaccines. IP on COVID vaccines should be a global public good. For COVID treatments and diagnostics to be broadly available at affordable prices, their IP must be considered a global public good by all. This is true not just for COVID, but future pandemics.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

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.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Calls to action suggested by DHAGE include more inclusive and accessible health services by in-house and private sector companies, while barriers to digital services identified included a lack of digital skills and connectivity. WHY IT MATTERS. This would create a greater knowledge database.

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HIT Consultant

JUNE 29, 2022

Since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, the rate of reporting of safety data has been unprecedented with the EMA reporting a 93% increase in the volume of adverse event reports reported in 2021 compared to 2020 1. . New advances in technology (e.g.,

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

LAS VEGAS – One year ago this week, a group of digital health experts formulated the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, which outlined priorities and recommendations for the global health community in response to COVID-19 and other future pandemics. mortality rate from COVID-19 was 2.8

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 8, 2022

That incident saw Biologist Joseph Popp distribute 20,000 floppy disks at the World Health Organization AIDS conference in Stockholm. In 2020, cybercriminals took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and used COVID-19 lures in their phishing attacks which continued throughout 2021.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa.

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Med-Net Compliance

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

6, the Ministry of Public Health of Tucumán in Argentina reported that an outbreak of pneumonia attributed to Legionella pneumophila, based on initial reference laboratory testing, had increased to 22 people, with 6 deaths and 10 ambulatory outpatients. However, health officials ruled out COVID-19, flu, and other respiratory viruses.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In the description of #7, Realizing the Promise of Virtual Health (in shorthand above, “Accelerating Digital Health”) Manatt includes this snippet/paragraph from the World Health Organization , spelling out digital health in a way that uncannily encompasses the team’s ten goals.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

In a press release on the program, CTA President and CEO Gary Shapiro noted that, “The response to COVID-19 in the U.S. has highlighted the huge demand for health technology solutions. CTA’s new Public Health Technology Initiative promises to be an important, impactful effort as a public-private partnership.

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Health Populi

JULY 25, 2022

for a couple of months, having lived in and worked from Brussels, Belgium, since October 2021 (save for about ten days in March 2022). We came to appreciate the connectivity was indeed a determinant of health (which I called out in the Huffington Post in July 2016). I’ve returned to the U.S. healthcare system.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While physician burnout is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly accelerating the many negative repercussions of uncertainty and inadequate support, and the consequences are being felt by patients, physicians, and healthcare systems. health-care workers say they are now considering leaving the profession.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2022

[Edelman usually releases a specific health industry deck some weeks after the initial Trust Barometer publication, which I will cover as soon as the data are available], Overall, peoples’ trust across the world in NGOs, business, government, and media, has stayed relatively flat over 2021 levels, the bar chart illustrates at the top-line.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

pledged to develop “climate-resistant and low-carbon health systems” at the U.N. That number was 4 percent in 2021. Tech inspires these pledges through circular health-care initiatives, telehealth, smart hospitals, AI, and so much more. Last year 50 countries, including the U.S., Climate Change Conference. Telehealth.

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SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

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. 726/2004, 09 March 2021.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 26, 2020

The eye-opening projected cost of healthcare due to the novel coronavirus in the United States is historic, with totals somewhere between $56B and $556B by the end of 2021, according to a Wakely study by American’s Health Insurance Plans. Covington, MPH, MBA, Ph.D. Our […].

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By December 2020, the world had astonishingly powerful tools against COVID-19. At the end of 2021, Thomas Cueni, the head of an international pharmaceutical trade association, acknowledged that everyone was “ashamed and embarrassed” by the inequity. “We By Zain Rizvi. reached the one million death mark.

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Health Law Pulse

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

On Friday, November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization (“WHO”) reported a new variant of COVID-19, the Omicron variant, was detected in South Africa. There is no indication the new variant is more contagious or more lethal, or that it is resistant to the COVID-19 vaccine.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A new template for the Certificate of a Pharmaceutical Product will be put into use in line with China’s pharmaceutical export practices and the latest World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. In FY 2021, 21 (25.3%) of such warning letters followed onsite inspections. emanated from a records request, while 2.4%

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2021

The United States has among the highest per capita incomes in the world. also has sustained among the highest death rates per 100,000 people due to COVID-19, based on epidemiological data from the World Health Organization’s March 28, 2021 , update. health care microeconomy, as plotted in this post.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 26, 2021

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. Before COVID-19 hit California, it was 35." Jude PASS to manage campus access."

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Hall Render

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Amazon PillPack Founders to Leave in Latest Health-Care Shakeup. Congress presses Meta about health data privacy after hospitals remove Facebook tracker. Healthcare Compliance Will Be a Challenge in Post-PHE World. Health systems grow apprenticeships to tackle shortages. California easing COVID-19 mask recommendations.

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SQA

DECEMBER 16, 2022

19 Medical Rehabilitation Equipment. Medicine shortages and reduced availability of medicine represent an increasing issue across the European Union (EU) and the globe, which has been amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic. CMDE Announcement No. 04 Orthopedic Surgical Instruments. 07 Medical Diagnostic and Monitoring Equipment.

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Health Populi

MAY 17, 2021

Even a few students attended, a growing trend as academia recognizes the shortage of workers trained to solve thorny problems of the world. In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery. Health equity, and.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 16, 2023

One recent example of the benefits of AI in healthcare is how AI was used during the COVID-19 pandemic to detect outbreaks, facilitate diagnoses, and accelerate gene sequencing. In the United States a patchwork of state and federal laws partially addresses the challenge, but many concerns remain.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. That well-used and timely observation is known as Amara’s Law.

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Health Canada. Counterfeit COVID-19 Antigen Rapid Test Kits Found in Ontario, 05 August 2022. Health Canada is warning consumers about counterfeit BTNX Rapid Response COVID-19 antigen rapid test kits (25-pack boxes) found in Ontario. Health Advance Inc. DSP Skin Care LLC, Warning Letter, 19 July 2022.

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Health Law RX

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The first rule, issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (the “OSHA Rule”), will require private employers with 100 or more employees to ensure that each of their workers is either fully vaccinated, or tests negative for COVID-19 at least once per week. The OSHA Rule. and wear a face covering.” Verification.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 23, 2022

David Nabarro was one of several panel commentators, adding his lens as Special Envoy on COVID-19 to the World Health Organization. As a public health doctor, he zeroed in on inflation, and specifically food and energy costs, contributing to some peoples’ trust deficits. “COVID started it.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

European Commission (EC) New Measures to Fight Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking, 18 October 2023 In 2021 alone, 303 tons of cocaine were seized in the EU. To step up the fight against criminal networks, the Commission has implemented new measures to fight organized crime and the drug trade. Recommendations for stability studies.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

By August, there were about 500 to 600 COVID deaths a day, accounting for more than a “9/11’s worth” every week , a level of death twice what it had been in the summer of 2021. Meanwhile, the Democrats failed to pass any more COVID money. But the stinginess of the U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

MAY 11, 2023

We wrote many posts about and saw many more examples of this phenomenon in connection with people following non-experts or “doing their own research” to pursue atypical “treatment” for COVID-19 and/or ascribe a wide range of “complications” to the COVID vaccines. Brief at 19-20 (quoting Coalition for Mercury-Free Drugs v.

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Drug & Device Law

APRIL 7, 2022

Over the past seven months, we reported ( here , here , here , here , here , and here ) on cases in which relatives of individuals sick with COVID-19 sued to force hospitals to administer ivermectin to their loved ones. Christiana Care Health Servs., LLC , 2021 WL 4129083, at *4 (Ohio Com. Jones , 637 S.W.3d

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HealthLaw Prof Blog

MAY 19, 2022

Margherita Melillo (Georgetown University), When a Delay Is a Denial: The Role of Scientific Evidence in the World Health Organization’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Epidemics and International Law 189-204 (Shinya Murase and Suzanne Zhou eds., 2021): This paper.

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