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On Searching for the Unknown with Unspeakable Names: Searching PubMed for Disability Research

Bill of Health

Anderson and LaTeesa James PubMed special queries are master search strategies on common, important, but challenging health topics, which are usually peer-reviewed. Disability certainly qualifies as a common, important health topic that is challenging to search – and yet, no PubMed special query exists for it.

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Unpacking Averages: Understanding the Potential for Bias in a Sepsis Prediction Algorithm, a Case Study

Health Law Advisor

Introduction This may sound like an intimidating technical topic, but I’m going to keep it simple. 2] Before I dive into the topic, I just want to prepare you for a potential aha moment. But there are also important differences in things like our average vital signs depending on the social determinants of health.

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Appreciating Water as a Driver of Health: Designing for Good, from the UN to Liberia and Flint, Michigan

Health Populi

Safe drinking water, sanitation preventing infectious disease outbreaks and epidemics (including available and clean toilets for all peoples’ use), and hand hygiene are basic human needs in our Maslow Hierarchies and social determinants of health. Water water everywhere but not a drop to drink (or for washing hands)?

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The New Health/Care is Patient-Led, Retail-Enabled – The GMDC Self-Care Summit

Health Populi

SelfCare is health/care, particularly as patients, everyday people, take on greater responsibility for clinical decisions and paying for medical services. The conditions include allergies, anxiety, arthritis, asthma, diabetes, digestive health, oral care, post-op care, skin care, sleep disorders, upper respiratory, and wound care.

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Day 2 Notes from the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

Healthcare Law Blog

Sustainability of our healthcare system was an interesting topic at Day 2 of the 42 nd Annual J.P. Markovich is worried that the healthcare system is losing the public’s trust – which will make it harder to effectively fix our system – while also not delivering the quality of care and accessibility needed by our population.

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CMS Issues a New “Advancing Interoperability and Improving Prior Authorization Processes” Proposed Rule

C&M Health Law

The below summary does not focus on the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Fee for Service (FFS) proposals. CMS reiterates in the Proposed Rule that the only reason payers could deny API access to a health app that a patient wishes to use and access through the Patient Access API is potential security risk to the payer.

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SQA Regulatory Surveillance Summary | Monthly Update 2024

SQA

The products had been improperly regularized in ANVISA as cosmetics since they are indicated for injectable use, a form that is not authorized for this category of product. After receiving complaints, ANVSA performed joint inspections with local health surveillance agencies.

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