Bill of Health

APRIL 14, 2023

By María Natalia Echegoyemberry and Francisco Verbic This article looks at the COVID-19 pandemic response in Argentina, with a particular focus on the judicial control of public health policies. There, too, single judges decided on important social and health issues. The case has parallels to rulings in the U.S.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Health Justice Moreover, viable replacement options to those appliances are both readily available and cheaper than ever due to funding provided through the Inflation Reduction Act. There is no shortage of data demonstrating that low income and minoritized individuals suffer disparate health outcomes in the United States.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

78 , Alexander Hamilton called judicial independence “the best expedient which can be devised in any government to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws.” Judicial independence is also critical for public health. Gostin In the Federalist No.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

And though evidence is mounting that the risk of hospitalization and death is lower for each person infected compared to Delta, Omicron’s extremely high transmissibility means that a large fraction of the population will become infected in a short time period, particularly in the absence of additional public health measures.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

COVID-19 is not the first pandemic within prisons. Like these earlier carceral pandemics, the over 620,000 COVID-19 infections and 3,100 related deaths among incarcerated individuals to date simply expose how U.S. health law and policy fails to protect people in custody. By Andrea C.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 18, 2020

Shifting the perception of digital health and care. Without doubt, the crucial requirement of us all, as citizens, to be physically distant as part of the response globally to COVID-19 has resulted in a significant shift in how we think about technology as a tool to overcome distance.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19. Here are 5 key findings from the survey: 1.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. This note focuses on the practical risks the proposed agreement presents as a precedent. In general, there are no legal benefits to the proposal.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

COVID-19 will be with us — in our society and in our brains — for the foreseeable future. This symposium contribution focuses specifically on COVID’s lasting effects in our brains, about which much is still unknown. What does COVID infection do to our brains? By Emily R.D.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. government. It is generally known that the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 virus wreaks havoc with the healthcare system, telemedicine is stepping up into the spotlight and helping healthcare provider organizations and caregivers better respond to the needs of Americans who have contracted the virus and Americans who need to touch base with their providers on the status of their health.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

On October 8, 2020, Moderna, the maker of one of the first mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 and the recipient of billions of dollars of U.S. government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” Pandemic Pledges. Moderna’s Pledge.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. Crucially, the crisis of sleep deprivation among incarcerated populations is not wholly divorced from the present COVID-19 threat facing correctional systems.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The UK government has launched a “far-reaching review” into the impact of potential bias in the design and use of medical devices. Race Equality Foundation CEO Jabeer Butt welcomed the review, but said it was not enough to explain the disproportionate deaths of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people from COVID-19.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over one million Americans have died from COVID-19, while 20 percent of those who survive may develop post-COVID conditions. With weak safety net policies and high health care costs it would hardly be surprising if our fellow citizens tried to shift some of their COVID costs to arguably responsible defendants.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

health care system, but that are especially present for behavioral health needs like substance use, and are exacerbated by other challenges related to stigma, lack of employment, and fragmented or nonexistent care coordination. This reality reflects structural, policy, and legal misalignments common to the entire U.S.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 28, 2021

No one should be surprised there’s another COVID variant on the loose, and yet seemingly, everyone is. The variant, named Omicron (the fifteenth letter in the Greek alphabet), was first reported to the World Health Organisation (WHO) by South Africa on November 24th. billion since the start of the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In the pre-COVID era, I answered this question affirmatively. Thus, even before special COVID-19 emergency declarations and legislation, I argued that federal agencies already had the authority to regulate these risks by requiring passengers to be vaccinated. By Christopher Robertson. As a Southwest flight attendant, Ms.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At the same time, they are regularly treated as commodities , often in ways that are completely divorced from their public health value. How may we convince these actors — governments, private-sector companies, funders — to agree to a more equitable allocative framework? is the relevant criterion the mortality rate?

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Newsom a legal principle that threatens to upend over a century of legal precedent recognizing the authority of state governments to ensure public health by mandating vaccines. Tandon , a religious rights case unrelated to vaccines, arose in March 2020 during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

By Sam Friedman Amid an emergent international consensus that the COVID pandemic is “over,” writings about the pandemic and its meanings have burst forth like the flowers of June. This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. Here, I will list a few of their major ideas and assumptions.

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Hall Render

MAY 2, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic took its toll, the year 2020 ushered in declarations of a National Emergency (“NE”) and a Public Health Emergency (“PHE”). Employers should know what the expiration of the PHE and NE means for health plans, mandatory coverage of COVID-19 testing, the completion of I-9 forms and other matters.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 28, 2023

The following is a guest article by Chris Anello, Director of Digital Platforms at iTech AG The COVID-19 pandemic pushed healthcare organizations to the edge and exposed both challenges and opportunities related to public health data. This is one area where CX can come in.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

3M HIS is integrating artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language understanding into its encoder solutions to analyse EHR source documents, extract the relevant clinical terminology language (SNOMED) and automatically map it into classification codes (ICD and OPCS) to present to the clinical coding teams for validation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 21, 2024

The Australian mental health system has reached a crisis point where psychiatrists and other mental health professionals are leaving the sector in droves due to burnout and inadequate support, leaving patients to wait for long to receive care or delay their treatment and risk further deterioration.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2022

This inclusive, diverse, cross-disciplinary approach is central to construction and presentation of The Manic Monologues. The following encapsulate three examples of cross-sectoral programming developed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The mental health crisis is already labeled by some as the next global pandemic.

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Total Medical Compliance Resources

APRIL 14, 2023

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Makes Progress in the Whole-of-Government Response to Long COVID U.S. Today, HHS is releasing this Fact Sheet outlining the progress made in the last year in responding to Long COVID and actions moving forward. AHRQ intends to make up to $9 million in awards by September 2023.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 31, 2021

Sam Hanna Population health and precision medicine have often been set against each other because of the inherent differences in their approaches to health management, but the COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on both, highlighting some potential intersections that may not have been so apparent in the past.

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Health Law Advisor

APRIL 13, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) updated its Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”), drafting 13 FAQs aimed at easing the transition from COVID-era flexibilities to the end of the Public Health Emergency (“PHE”) on May 11, 2023.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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Health Care Law Brief

JUNE 2, 2022

The onset of the COVID-19 public health emergency (“PHE”) led to a surge in the use of telehealth by health care providers. Variety of Risks Present in Telehealth Arrangements. If so, at what point during the consumer’s interaction with the platform is the data generated governed exclusively by HIPAA?

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 15, 2022

Health Equity is a complex challenge with multiple root causes and contributing factors making it difficult to know where to start. For many government and healthcare organizations, mapping health equity using a Geography Information System (GIS) was the best place to start. Encouraging Signs.

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MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. Hartlage will present alongside CGI Global's Renee Gregor at HIMSS22 this month about lessons learned from the rollout.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2022

history, which is now killing more than 100,000 people a year, the country’s outdated and restrictive federal regulatory schemes that pertain to methadone and buprenorphine present a pernicious and persistent barrier to accessing OUD medications. However, during the worst drug poisoning crisis in U.S.

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