Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

International collaboration through the sharing of health data is crucial for advancing human health. In particular, as countries increasingly have begun to recognize health data as a vital national resource, the impulse to protect such data has risen as well. citizens’ health data with China.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

In the years before the pandemic, and especially since the pandemic began, there have been increasing calls to decolonize global health. The diverse tapestry of international human rights scholarship related to health is often not reflected in analyses of the field from the economic North. Setting aside what ???y?

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The initiative, however, remains painfully relevant, as still today most countries in Central America and the Caribbean prohibit abortion even in cases of sexual violence and instances where the pregnant woman’s health (and, potentially, life) is at stake. She requested an abortion, as her health and life were at stake.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

These five students are a fantastic cohort of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars who join us from Harvard Law School. They each will undertake a year-long research project with mentorship from Center faculty and affiliates, and also will blog here at Bill of Health regularly.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Though the government has learnt lessons in the past, and though it has codified some aspects of these lessons into our laws and policies relating to public health, it has always used a disease lens in the application of the lessons learned as opposed to a human rights lens.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As part of its Global Health Equity Week, HIMSS (parent organization of Healthcare IT News), is promoting two policy campaigns, at the federal and state level, respectively. Those risks to maternal health have only increased during the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 22, 2022

In terms of health care practice and patient safety, these underpinning basic, foundational concepts include the need for proper patient communication strategies. It is clear that communication is one of the basic tenets of patient safety that health care staff need to regularly revisit. A global service industry.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 28, 2023

In the same year that the deliberative public engagement study on heritable HGE was conducted in South Africa, an expert advisory committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) published its policy proposals for a global governance framework for HGE. These values seem to be a broad collection of en vogue ethics concepts.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Consulting which looked into the cybersecurity landscape of the region and how policies and other measures apply in the rising remote care segment. While policies allow data transfer between and beyond hospitals, these protections are also "not well-established" and challenges persist in enforcing them. report emphasised.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

By Sheila Varadan, Ton Liefaard, and Jaap Doek The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (Principles) make a significant contribution towards clarifying the scope of States’ legal obligations under international human rights law during public health emergencies.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Although the need for prioritization was a reality almost globally, many countries had no such regulation in place, which frequently led to the adoption of fragmented and discriminatory triage protocols. The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive.

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KFF

AUGUST 26, 2022

This fact sheet summarizes the major statutory requirements and policies pertaining to U.S. global family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH) efforts over time and identifies those currently in effect, including the Mexico City Policy and the Kemp-Kasten Amendment.

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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. 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.

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Bill of Health

JULY 26, 2023

By Matthew “Hezzy” Smith Bangladesh, at the frontlines of global climate change, provides a critical litmus test for advocacy to ensure that persons with disabilities are included in climate change mitigation and adaptation. There, however, policy gaps — some more noticeable than others.

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Why data-driven policies can help scale up health equity efforts. More about this episode: HIMSSCast: Predicting what's next for health IT, mobile tech and health system finances. 'Flux' Digital health 2023: Cloud, human-centered design and getting back to basics.

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KFF

JULY 25, 2023

government's efforts in global health security—that is, activities to help countries prepare for and develop capacities to address epidemic and pandemic diseases. agencies carrying out these efforts, describes funding, and highlights key policy issues going forward. This brief examines the U.S.

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 18, 2022

These emissions directly lead to global warming. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called climate change “the biggest health risk of the century” It estimates that between 2030 and 2050 climate change will cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year. ” The digital health paradox.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a public health emergency, pharmaceutical manufacturers’ liability concerns can slow the deployment of urgently needed vaccines and other medical countermeasures (MCMs). Products used during public health emergencies raise unique issues either because of their novelty, scale and type of proposed use, or regulatory pathway.

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Bill of Health

JULY 1, 2022

Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Health Aff (Millwood). Health Aff (Millwood). Health Aff (Millwood).

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Patent “Evergreening” of Medicine-Device Combination Products: A Global Perspective.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 25, 2022

To support health and wellness, ElliQ offers sleep relaxation exercises, physical activity exercises, in-depth nutrition-related conversations, and medication reminders for each user's unique conditions. According to the AARP Public Policy Institute, social isolation drives $6.7 In 2017, the U.S.

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Mobi Health News

JANUARY 21, 2022

In a preview of their HIMSS22 presentation, Robert Jarrin, managing partner at the Omega Concern, and Brian Scarpelli, senior global policy counsel at the Connected Health Initiative, explain the current digital health reimbursement landscape.

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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. People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

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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Bill of Health

AUGUST 8, 2023

Structural competency , which accounts for systemic “level determinants, biases, inequities, and blind spots,” is important to mitigating environmental racism and ableism in climate change and disaster policy. To achieve such intersectional approaches, the social determinants of health provide a useful framework. Figure 1 (adapted).

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Healthcare It News

JUNE 29, 2022

Dubai Health Authority ( DHA ) and its health insurance regulatory body have launched a “first-of-its-kind” digital-led programme that is expected to form the foundation for value-based healthcare adoption in the emirate, it has been announced. ” ON THE RECORD.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

Together, these articles underscore the injustice of the present moment and emphasize the need to reform intellectual property protections for government-funded inventions of public health significance. Moderna and Pfizer have made more than $100bn (£83; €94) in global revenues from sales of their COVID-19 vaccines.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 16, 2024

A S$20 million grant from the National Research Foundation, Singapore (NRF) has been awarded to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Imperial College London to develop ways to better protect health data and wearable devices. billion by 2027 , growing at a 12% CAGR from 2022.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2023

By Joelle Boxer Last month, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a package of nine reproductive health care bills , following the passage of fifteen such bills in 2022. experience wide disparities in accessing reproductive health care, rooted in a long history of oppressive reproductive control. People with disabilities in the U.S.

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KFF

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

government global health policy and engagement. This fact sheet provides an overview of U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Wolf With our recent (and continuing) experience of the devastating COVID-19 global pandemic, one might think that our collective appreciation for public health efforts and the people advancing those efforts would be high. An essential first step is to refocus on the “public” in public health. So, how do we move forward?

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Health Populi

APRIL 14, 2020

” Health Populi’s Hot Points: To further inform insights from the Gallup poll, I looked at a study From GfK on Navigating COVID-19, exploring changing consumers. “This time is different,” GfK observes, arraying impacts of security, resources, the economy, health, and other items yet to be seen. .

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Each month, members of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) review the peer-reviewed medical literature to identify interesting empirical studies, policy analyses, and editorials on health law and policy issues. Transparency practices at the FDA: A barrier to global health. Epub ahead of print.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The funding enables Atropos Health to accelerate commercial and development opportunities outside the U.S., Lack of representation and relevant evidence on local populations leads to poorly informed treatment decisions and worse outcomes for patients around the world,” said Dr. Brigham Hyde, Co-Founder and CEO at Atropos Health.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 30, 2023

The Australian National Audit Office has conducted a review of the expansion of telehealth services across the country by the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It also consulted with and took in the opinions of peak bodies into its policy advice for temporary and permanent telehealth.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 14, 2024

According to Dr. Brookman-Amissah, of the 36,000 deaths that occur globally due to unsafe abortion, almost 24,000 are in sub-Saharan Africa. She then served as Ghana’s Minister of Health from 1996 to 1998 and as Ghana’s Ambassador to the Netherlands from 1998 to 2001. Reform is impacted by foreign policy : “[The U.S.’s

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Healthcare It News

JANUARY 5, 2022

Germany and the Czech Republic have both announced plans to make vaccination status the only means to qualify for a COVID health pass - no longer allowing negative test results or proof of having recovered from the virus. European commissioner for internal market, Thierry Breton , said: “The EUDCC has become a global standard.

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