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Are we taking patient privacy as seriously as we ought to be?

Healthcare It News

Allen said ahead of the conference that she wanted to bring her expertise in law and bioethics to bear on problems of great concern to healthcare and technology and would focus her discussion on data exchange and patient privacy. The new narrative affects not only data privacy, but it affects "the basic experience of going to the doctor."

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303 Creative, Transgender Rights, and the Ongoing Culture Wars

Bill of Health

face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communities have an essential role to play both in properly framing the legal issue, as well as explaining what is truly at stake in these cases to minimize the chances of similarly harmful rulings for the transgender community moving forward.

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Psychedelic Policy on the Federal Level: Key Takeaways from a Petrie-Flom Center Panel

Bill of Health

To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. By James R. I’m concerned about that,” she said.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

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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A Human Rights Approach to Personal Information Technology

Bill of Health

The agent can be informal, such as a spouse or caregiver, or legally bound as a fiduciary, such as a doctor. Decentralized cooperative finance enables more diverse and resilient alternatives to corporate or government control of our essential infrastructure. This avoids vendor lock-in to corporate or government interests.

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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. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. For example, typically, before a patient is placed in restraints, there has to be a face-to-face evaluation on initiation and frequent reassessment.

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

Health Populi

With government’s relaxing regulations, health care providers could move staff and resources virtually from place to place, regardless of State licensure or other barriers to providing telemedicine, remote monitoring, and other flavors of telehealth. What is the doctor of the future?

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