Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Vaccines are pharmaceutical products, a critical tool in public and global health. At the same time, they are regularly treated as commodities , often in ways that are completely divorced from their public health value.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 17, 2023

Two pharmaceutical giants of the pandemic, Moderna and BioNTech, are taking steps for increasing the manufacturing capacity for the COVID-19 vaccine in Africa. Last March, Moderna announced its plan to set up a manufacturing facility in Kenya to produce messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines, including COVID-19 shots.

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Health Populi

JULY 28, 2020

This week, announcements from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) and Withings further bolster the case for the private sector bolstering public health in this pandemic…and future ones to come beyond the Age of the Coronavirus. On 27th July, CTA announced the Association’s launch of the Public Health Tech Initiative.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The following is a guest article by Kurt Waltenbaugh, CEO at Carrot Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 10, 2021

LAS VEGAS – One year ago this week, a group of digital health experts formulated the Riyadh Declaration on Digital Health, which outlined priorities and recommendations for the global health community in response to COVID-19 and other future pandemics. mortality rate from COVID-19 was 2.8

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Bill of Health

MARCH 24, 2022

During large transnational public health crises, global demand soars for diagnostics, drugs, and vaccines. Consider, for instance, the case of COVID-19 vaccines. Although some of these products can be developed within compressed timelines, global production capacity remains limited.

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Health Populi

JUNE 3, 2020

As we wrestle with just “what” health care will look like “after COVID,” there’s one certainty that we can embrace in our health planning and forecasting efforts: that’s the persistence of telehealth and virtual care into health care work- and life-flows, for clinicians and consumers alike and aligned.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Their ten must-do’s for bending the cost curve while driving constructive change for a better health care system are to: Ensure access. Achieve health equity. Stability the safety net and rebuild public health. Address social determinants of health. Accelerate digital health. Innovate long-term care.

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Medical Gas Compliance

APRIL 21, 2023

While treating the coronavirus is still a primary focus for healthcare facilities, one thing is becoming clear–-We are shifting away from Covid-19 being considered a global emergency. The World Health Organization (WHO), the agency responsible for international public health, has stated the pandemic is at a “transition point.”

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Health Populi

MARCH 17, 2020

remain home for the immediate term, our home economics blur into their personal health economics in the #COVID19 era in several respects: physically, to be sure; fiscally; and emotionally. The physical impact of COVID-19 is the first-line requiring quarantine in the #StayHomeSaveLives mode. As people in the U.S.

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Total HIPAA

MARCH 17, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the recent coronavirus outbreak, otherwise known as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) , a public health emergency of international concern. On March 11, WHO characterized COVID-19 as a pandemic, detected in 114 countries around the globe as of that date.¹.

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HIT Consultant

JULY 26, 2022

Collaborating with health organizations to promote healthy lifestyles at large scale. Supporting public health and government initiatives. All of Apple’s health and fitness features have been developed with two overarching principles: 1. Through the Research app, Apple has collaborated with Harvard T.H.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

At this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, the topic of the COVID-19 pandemic and its destructive impact was central to many of the discussions that took place. Among them, was the issue of vaccine hesitancy around the world, especially in underdeveloped nations such as those in Africa.

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Health Law Pulse

JULY 25, 2022

Between 60 to 75 percent of new COVID-19 diagnoses are now said to be attributed the BA.5 Health officials have advised anyone who has not had a second booster to do so now, with fears that existing immunity could be waning. Researchers have branded BA.5 Researchers have branded BA.5 The post BA.5

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While physician burnout is not new, the COVID-19 pandemic is rapidly accelerating the many negative repercussions of uncertainty and inadequate support, and the consequences are being felt by patients, physicians, and healthcare systems. Working conditions can be stressful and may lead to emotional exhaustion, or burnout.

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This feels especially apt right “now” as we enter 2022, Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, with people mentally stressed, anxious, and shrugging off the Omicron variant – while taking on more DIY life-flows, self-care and desire for (more) control. That well-used and timely observation is known as Amara’s Law.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By Rossella De Falco Strong, well-coordinated and resilient public health care services play a vital role in preventing and responding to public health crises. What are, however, the specific legal and ethical implications of involving private actors in health care vis-à-vis public health emergencies?

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American Medical Compliance

MARCH 30, 2023

After the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a greater importance in implementing proper infection control protocols, such as identifying cases of infections and supplying proper personal protective equipment (PPE) to emergency medical workers. Emergency medical workers are at an increased risk of exposure to COVID-19.

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Jane Sarashon

MAY 23, 2022

Leaders in government, business, media, and NGOs will be discussing the converging big issues of the moment: Ukraine/Russia, climate change, inflation, food supply, and to be sure, public health — with new concerns about monkey pox on the pandemic radar. “COVID started it. it’s the future of the world.”

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 22, 2023

NP-C, CSE Nurses have the highest level of public trust across medical professions, yet there’s a huge chasm between Americans’ appreciation for nursing and the profession’s uncertain future. A nursing shortage, exacerbated by the COVID pandemic, has been fueled largely by high levels of moral distress, politicization, and lack of support.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Yet when COVID-19 – the greatest health emergency in a century – devastated the world, the Siracusa Principles seemed unequal to the task – too narrow, including with their remit limited to civil and political rights, not sufficiently specific, and above all, without sufficient accountability.

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Healthcare It News

AUGUST 20, 2021

Health authorities in Rome have repurposed a COVID-19 telemonitoring tool to monitor people at risk from heat-related illness. Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. This system was set up for COVID when we had to do a COVID surveillance of patents who weren’t severe and were at home.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 16, 2023

One recent example of the benefits of AI in healthcare is how AI was used during the COVID-19 pandemic to detect outbreaks, facilitate diagnoses, and accelerate gene sequencing. This would give healthcare organizations more confidence to adopt AI technologies with benefits for patients, organizations, and the public health in general.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines. By Govind Persad, Monica Peek, and Seema Shah.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised unprecedented challenges for the global health framework and its long-term consequences are not yet in full sight. The alarm mechanism based on the declaration of Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), in particular, has been severely tested.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

With rising case numbers in across the DACH (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) region and the rest of Europe, a fully vaccinated status might become compulsory for the use of the EU Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC) soon – at least in some countries. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By December 2020, the world had astonishingly powerful tools against COVID-19. New mRNA vaccines, underpinned by decades of public investment , had been authorized by global regulators. The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — By Zain Rizvi.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Other programmes, including Public Health England’s COVID-19 Observatory, were also able to collect and analyse coronavirus data. The World Health Organisation has cited China as an example of where a health system was able to improve diagnostic accuracy and scale availability.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

consumer in the COVID-19 moment…a moment that may last most of the rest of the months of 2020. First, foremost, Americans are concerned about the impact of a disease outbreak on their health, personal finances and the U.S. 43% of Americans are concerned they will contract COVID-19. 20-21 and Feb.

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Health Populi

JULY 5, 2021

Without access to connectivity during the pandemic, too many people could not work for their living, attend school and learn, connect with loved ones, or get health care. At the start of COVID-19 in the U.S., the FCC had identified connectivity gaps in the pandemic as a barrier to both economic and physical health.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. This, critically, could have helped save lives.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 30, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency came to an end on May 11. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. What does the end of the public health emergency mean for the future of the healthcare industry?

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This week, public health truths have collided with social media, the infodemic, and health citizenship. First, I read in Becker’s Health IT on February 16 that the peer-reviewed policy journal Health Affairs was prevented by a social media outlet from promoting its February 2022 issue themed “Racism and Health.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By Anita Gholami The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which brings together parliamentarians from 46 member States, has been a vigilant guardian of respect for the European Convention on Human Rights and other international standards throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

JULY 9, 2020

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S.

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Health Populi

MARCH 16, 2021

“So close and yet so far” feels like the right phrase to use a year after the World Health Organization used the “P-word,” “pandemic,” to describe the coronavirus’s impact on public health, globally. One year and over 550,000 COVID-related deaths in the U.S.

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