Mon.Sep 04, 2023

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Forced Gifting: English Surrogacy, Gestational Labor, and the Inequality of Choice

Bill of Health

By Lucas Taylor Surrogacy, the practice in which one party (the surrogate) gestates a fetus on behalf of another pair/person (the intended parent/s or IPs), has sparked academic debates regarding gender equality and bodily integrity in the face of both commercial and altruistic agreements. I re-engage with this topic by challenging how the capacity of the surrogate to choose may be restricted under English and Welsh law.

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South Korea begins nationwide telemedicine pilot

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Starting this September, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare will officially begin the nationwide telemedicine pilot following a three-month guided pilot period. The service is currently being offered to the following patients: those with chronic diseases who have done their first in-person visits; paediatric patients seeking follow-ups (only during holidays and at night); people living in islands and other remote areas; disabled persons; senior citizens over the age of 65; and peopl

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Girls Inc. & Learn to Live to Tackle Mental Health for Teenage Girls

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: Today, preeminent girls’ leadership organization Girls Inc. and leading digital mental health provider Learn to Live announced a partnership to make clinically proven mental health services available free to Girls Inc. participants aged 13 and above. The program will offer support for social anxiety; depression; stress, anxiety & worry; panic; insomnia; substance use; and resilience skills to over 55,000 girls across the U.S. and Canada.

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Happy Labor Day!

Healthcare IT Today

I thought this picture captured what I hope you’re all experiencing today. Pure Joy and Happiness! Every Labor Day I think of all the amazing healthcare workers that have to work 24/7/365. That can be really hard and I appreciate the sacrifice of so many that work on holidays like Labor Day because healthcare and people needing care doesn’t stop on the holiday (although, wouldn’t it be great if it did?).

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Navigating the Future: Generative AI, Application Analytics, and Data

Generative AI is upending the way product developers & end-users alike are interacting with data. Despite the potential of AI, many are left with questions about the future of product development: How will AI impact my business and contribute to its success? What can product managers and developers expect in the future with the widespread adoption of AI?

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Digital Health Networks launches survey of views about the community

Digital Health News

Digital Health wants to know what Digital Health Networks members think of the community and is currently running its third biennial survey.

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Employee Health Plan Data Exposed in Forever 21 Data Breach

HIPAA Journal

Fashion retailer Forever 21 has notified the Maine Attorney General of a data breach in which the health plan data of 539,207 current and former employees was exposed. Breach notifications letters are being sent to everyone potentially affected by the breach. However, the letters reveal little about the nature of the attack or what specific data was exposed.

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Labor Day 2023

HealthIT Answers

This Labor Day we take a look at the history of the holiday, learn a bit about the current day labor movement, offer some tips on working during the holiday, and hopefully find some inspiration to reflect and remember what it's all about in the first place. The post Labor Day 2023 appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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iHealth/Advantum HIPAA breach settlement

The HIPAA Blog

iHealth/Advantum settles HIPAA FTP server breach for $75,000. I was going through some old emails and came across a HIPAA settlement that I don't think I mentioned earlier. And it's not an access settlement. It involves a business associate and an unsecured storage server (likely an FTP server). Interestingly, the breach was not a "wall of shame" breach.

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Copyright’s Capacity Gap

HealthLaw Prof Blog

Andrew Gilden (Willamette University), Eva E. Subotnik (St. John’s University), Copyright’s Capacity Gap, 57 U.C. Davis L. Rev. (2023): Most areas of law require that individuals meet a certain threshold of capacity before their decisions—e.g., to marry, to enter into.

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