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Using Contracts to Lessen Inequities in Access to Medicines in Pandemics and Epidemics

Bill of Health

At the research and development (R&D) stage, government funders can bind producers to equity goals through targeted contractual provisions, as we explain in a recently-published Nature Biotechnology article. The first pathway is requiring funding recipients to use out-licensing to alleviate scarcity.

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Where telemedicine is headed now that the PHE has ended

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This change is yet another signal that the country is working to move past the pandemic, which falls in line with recent moves by the federal government to move the pandemic to a more controlled phase. This also happens to coincide with the World Health Organization declaring an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

Bill of Health

government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” After the pandemic, it is willing to offer paid licenses. Licensing structures like this go back at least to World War II, when the U.S. By Jorge L. Moderna’s Pledge.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

Retail Health for All, starring The Consumer Social ethos – community-driven HC financing – private-sector/commercial U.S. Health care is delivered through an omnichannel platform accessible to all consumers, tailored for personalization. Concierge care thrives for those who can afford to take advantage of it.

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A Blueprint for Solving the U.S. Nursing Shortage Crisis

HIT Consultant

The World Health Organization declared 2020 the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife to spotlight nurses’ impact on healthcare and recognize the 200 th anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday. Enabling nurses to practice at the top of their licenses. But it also shined a light on nurses’ courage and heroism.

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Reclaiming Global Public Health

Bill of Health

Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Consider the United States, for example, which made the unprecedented move to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic. The post Reclaiming Global Public Health appeared first on Bill of Health.

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COVID-19: An integrated healthcare system is the way forward

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Government & Policy Network Infrastructure Telehealth Workflow With dozens of healthcare facilities across the UAE, the country’s healthcare system is evolving faster than elsewhere in the world says Christian Schuhmacher, CEO of King’s College Hospital London in Dubai. And it went beyond just coordinating the immediate response.

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