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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Jane Sarashon

In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.” If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0”

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Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell

Bill of Health

This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. One, I had health insurance, or I would still be paying thousands of dollars in expenses. By Leslie C. I’m a tenured law professor at UNLV. I am healthy, happy, working, and working out. But I went through hell to be here. Your advice has to match your patient.

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Why CTA’s Shepherding AI Is Important for Re-Imagining Healthcare

Health Populi

So what’s an organization like CTA doing with AI and health care? Check out this graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. In the best of all worlds, that can lead us to better health outcomes, more effective care, and lower costs. Let me connect the dots.

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

Health Populi

The most-trusted parties people trust with their personal health information are doctors’ offices (86%), health insurers (75%), and medical researchers (72%), seen as the top health data stewards in the U.S. Three-quarters of people in the U.S.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Report: Facebook Tracker Collecting Hospital Patient PHI

Compliancy Group

Former regulators, health data security experts, and privacy advocates who reviewed The Markup’s findings said the hospitals in question may have violated the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The click doesn’t mean they scheduled,” she wrote.

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Managing Cognitive Decline Concerns in the Workplace

Bill of Health

And, as detailed in my book, Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow , the American population is aging. Employers want to safeguard their profitability and avoid workers who could develop absenteeism and productivity problems and raise health insurance costs.

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