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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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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

Bill of Health

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. J was brought to the Emergency Department with a cough, but after a test, we learned he was COVID positive. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Jane Sarashon

As a noun, Merriam-Webster tells us that a rebel is a person who opposes or takes up arms against a government or a ruler. As a verb, “to rebel” is to oppose or disobey one in authority or control, or otherwise renounce and resist by force the authority of one’s government.”

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

Health Populi

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. After her death in 2013, the Southwark Coroner’s Court found that air pollution “made a material contribution” to her death, “a landmark decision” according to a government advisor on air pollution.

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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

Early in the pandemic, many hospitals around the country took various punitive actions against staff who spoke out about safety issues on the front line of caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19. government. (In 10 – Medical staffing companies cut doctors’ pay while spending millions on political ads. #9-