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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

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In the Progressive Era (from 1890 to 1920), regulation was focusing on preventing consumer fraud and in the case of food, preventing manufacturers from substituting sand for sugar, for example. Here’s another facet of this history that resonates with health data rights and equity.

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

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Shkreli was ultimately convicted on securities fraud (not related to the Draprim pricing strategy). When he led Turing Pharmaceuticals in 2015, he acquired a license for the drug Daraprim (an anti-malarial therapy also used for HIV/AIDS), raising the drug price from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill. health care system.