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Neurorehabilitation and Recovery: Going Through Hell

Bill of Health

This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. Because twice, doctors told members of my family that due to brain injury, I was about to die. One, I had health insurance, or I would still be paying thousands of dollars in expenses. He still remembers the Nevada doctors telling him I would probably die.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

In place of “government,” you might use the words “hospital” or “health insurance” or “drug company.” .” If you’ve been a patient facing a diagnosis of an illness, whether rare or common, you may well have felt these various feelings stirring inside your self.

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

Health Populi

All that data that we ourselves create in everyday life we wonky health-tech folks call “patient-generated data” if it’s medically-related or “consumer-generated data” if it’s more wellness, fitness, or non-medical. In the best of all worlds, that can lead us to better health outcomes, more effective care, and lower costs.

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

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Autonomy, Insurance, and Luck

Bill of Health

One is the philosophical principle of autonomy, which I regularly teach in my bioethics class. Health insurance and property insurance. Lack of insurance makes everything dreadful. Autonomy and insurance help you through a lot of crises. There I met an excellent doctor who told me I could recover.

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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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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified. ” While Google is a well-known brand and customer experience for most people, Ascension Health may not be as familiar an organization. health care. Was this due to the growing experience and reporting of surprise medical bills?