Bill of Health

MAY 4, 2022

Russian attacks on hospitals, ambulances, and health workers in Ukraine — including more than 180 attacks confirmed b y the World Health Organization, and double that number reported by the Ministry of Health — have gained global attention. By Leonard Rubenstein. Accountability for these crimes must be pursued.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Repeatedly, states and hospital systems have considered implementing crisis standards of care, which establish triage protocols for scarce resources. The provision of scarce resources such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds, antivirals, and ventilators during this pandemic has been an ongoing topic of discussion.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

We demonstrated in the pandemic that we could be agile, reconfiguring hospitals quickly, moving patients and staff because we had to. ” The hospital of the future is not the hospital of 2019. What is the hospital of the future look like? Be agile and flexible. ” Dowling wonders.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 1, 2022

Recently, an account on social media alleged that a patient with an ectopic pregnancy in a state with trigger laws experienced a nine hour delay in treatment as she bled internally because the hospital Ethics and Legal Counsel had to be consulted about whether or not the pregnancy tissue could be removed.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 28, 2022

times more likely to be hospitalized and 1.7 times more likely to be hospitalized and 1.9 Heslin cited CDC data that showed that, compared to non-Hispanic whites, Black people were 2.5 times more likely to die from COVID-19 and that Hispanic people were 2.4 times more likely to die. less likely to receive the treatment than whites.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The most trusted source of health information continues to be “my” physician, followed by “any” physician, then friends and family, and hospital-health plan-and pharmacy websites. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

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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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moving to deployment and implementation, we can consider health ministries and departments, pharma and life science companies, health systems and hospitals, individual providers, and the developers and providers integrated into health systems.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 29, 2022

However, although a large percentage of hospitalized patients lack capacity , physicians often do not feel confident in their ability to assess capacity, fail to recognize that most patients who do not have capacity lack it, and often disagree on which patients have capacity.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

If we’re lucky, that beloved person had a good death: in sleep, perhaps, or simply of old age with no hospital events or trauma. And, third, the word means a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. We each have our own stories about how a loved one’s life has ended.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

hospital or EHR vendor) intervention or surveillance. A wallet secured with a face or other biometric adds speed and security to the authentication step. This allows Alice to directly interact with the resources she needs without third-party (e.g., Requests for information (forms, searches, conversations).

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

Hospitals’ fall from 70% to 63% between 2018 and 2019. Year-on-year, different spikes and ups-and-downs call out for special mention, such as: Pharma’s 13-point steep dive to 38% between 2017 and 2018, dramatically recovering by 9 points in the last year to 47% [with the wild card here of whether U.S.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

The remaining supply could be open to all who are clinically eligible, stratified by criteria including diagnosed illness, age, and unvaccinated status—but with attention to how some of these criteria can stand in tension with ethical goals like reciprocity and mitigating health inequities.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of his congregation kept going to the hospital with diet-related issues, Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, III , realized. Gray died while in police custody in April 2015, suffering a neck injury and dying in a hospital a week later. “I got tired of praying and hoping they made it and walked out,” Reverend Brown realized.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Note that hospitals garnered only about one-half of people in this study, and pharma and health plans fell to one-third of Americans’ responses to the question. The media coverage of hospitals suing patients for late payments? The media coverage of hospitals suing patients for late payments? health care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

When I shared these data points with hospitals and clinicians they were first stunned at the finding. Equal numbers of people in the U.S. came to trust digitally-enabled companies for managing health as large retailers and health care providers.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Once home, if the patient engages in effective self-care, she can prevent a readmission which then can help the hospital conserve costs. “Saving 30% of costs would create the oxygen to do really interesting things,” Frans explained.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

During her “hospital-incarceration,” she lost access to any prenatal care, and state officials did not monitor the fetus’s health. When Lowe tried to seek treatment for her SUD in 2005, instead of getting medical care, she was forcibly taken away from her husband and son and put on an involuntary psychiatric hold.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Finally — my most re-tweeted tweet during the session — Dr. T asserted that, “There is no room for hospitals in the future. It’s all about the patient’s bedroom.”

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

One is the philosophical principle of autonomy, which I regularly teach in my bioethics class. Almost a full week after the accident occurred, I woke up in a Phoenix hospital. In late November, I woke up in a hospital in Houston. It’s quite a list, so sometimes I mention it to my friends, so they will be as amazed as I am.

Health Insurance 157

Health Insurance Bioethics Doctors Hospitals 157

Health Populi

MARCH 7, 2019

Amazon is consumers’ most-trusted user of personal health data, compared with banks, Apple, Google, retailers, airlines, and hospitality. SmarterHQ polled over 1,000 consumers and found that: Most consumers are concerned about their data privacy, and believe that companies know too much about them.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

If we’re lucky, that beloved person had a good death: in sleep, perhaps, or simply of old age with no hospital events or trauma. And, third, the word means a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. We each have our own stories about how a loved one’s life has ended.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 27, 2022

From consumers’ homes and workplaces and running routes to the research bench, doctor’s offices, and hospital beds, this graphic from the report illustrates scenarios of Apple’s research flows.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Recent research provides further support: when Yale New Haven Hospital tested clinicians on staff who were seventy and older, it found that almost 13% had significant cognitive deficits. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Health consumers will have an impact on the supply side of the health care system — hospitals, physicians, pharma, medical device companies, and health plans. Home as hospital. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S., The home gym.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

During the three years prior to her death, she was admitted to the hospital 30 times. But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

New companies are forming to enable people to monetize their data, so we enter another new bioethical space in this scenario. The prospect of patients/consumers monetizing their health data is a big one, with Indu asking, “Who are you (data-driven company) making money for? Indu asked what I think are the Big Question for Health 2.0

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Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

spends too much money for too little ROI on that spending, from hospital care and dental services to prescription drugs and what ultimately illustrates wasted life and potential in American society: maternal, infant and child mortality, which is by far the worst outcome in a developed nation and as bad as some much poorer countries experience.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

Perception : We are living in a moment in time when pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, and hospital systems have been demonized in the public discourse. These are: Perception, Trust, Risk and the Uncertainty Produced by an Ever-Changing Context, categories that sweep in all of the issues at hand.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

hospital emergency rooms with symptoms of COVID-19, a greater number of these patients per capita haven’t been discharged from hospitals. As African-American patients have been admitted to U.S. They’ve passed away. But we must be capable, in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MARCH 24, 2020

Bottom-line for that health consumer: two in three Americans could not afford to pay their deductible if hospitalized for treatment of coronavirus. Today, several thousand Americans are dealing with the situation of a loved one in an ICU where hospitals may have just enough ventilators to cover inpatients gasping for breath.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 20, 2019

Rates of hospital admissions for uncontrolled diabetes are higher for Black women than for women in other racial/ethnic groups. The rate of hospital admissions for lower extremity amputations due to uncontrolled diabetes is higher for Black women than White women. AI can be used for good, to be sure.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Most consumers, in fact, identified technology companies as the source of the most health care innovation 20 years from now in a RealClear Politics poll conducted last year, which I’ve been citing in my talks with healthcare industry players in pharma, biotech, hospitals and health plan organizations.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

The pandemic response in the United States, and its attendant hospitalization and death rates, represents a failure of public health. They fail to discuss and analyze the actions of nurses and other health care workers to organize care, to support each other when sick, and to force hospital managements to procure PPE like masks.

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