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Climate Change and Neglected Tropical Diseases: Key Takeaways from the WHO-WIPO-WTO Trilateral Symposium

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath* The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), hosted the 10 th Trilateral Symposium on Human Health and Climate Change in Geneva this November.

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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare It News

In the Lazio region, GPs, health care workers and primary care services are supervising and caring for patients during heatwaves using the LazioAdvice teleconsultation system and Lazio Doctor per COVID app. ON THE RECORD.

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Dr. Eunice Brookman-Amissah: A Pioneer in Safe Abortion Law Reform

Bill of Health

In 1992, a distressed 14-year-old girl named Amina came to her clinic asking for help, explaining that a man “had given her money to give to a doctor to make her period come.” Brookman-Amissah has often recounted a tragic, personal experience with a young patient that shifted her stance.

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Roundup: New telehealth services launched in Hong Kong and more briefs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It also enables teleconsultation with doctors from Apollo TeleHealth. Moreover, the health facility allows patients to create their own IHL health accounts, which integrate with the nationwide Ayushman Bharat Health Account.

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AI: Patients Included

Health Populi

Fourth , to mitigate against potential bias across the data and stakeholders (providers, payers, public sector/government, and pharma) making sure to include data from under-served populations. and, TruBridge, which partners with providers to connect patients (and their data) in rural areas with the health system.

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Leveraging Connected Solutions for Improved Patient Care

Healthcare IT Today

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the global population aged 60 and over will double by 2050. Integration of Connected Technologies in Physician Care The transformation of healthcare is marked by a profound improvement in communication between patients and doctors through real-time data collection and monitoring.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

The World Health Organization estimates that in the majority of African countries, there is one hospital per one million people, one doctor per 10,000 people and one hospital bed per 10,000 people. Partnerships and innovation are the only ways Africa can achieve superior health outcome results with markedly fewer resources.