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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Jane Sarashon

As a noun, Merriam-Webster tells us that a rebel is a person who opposes or takes up arms against a government or a ruler. As a verb, “to rebel” is to oppose or disobey one in authority or control, or otherwise renounce and resist by force the authority of one’s government.”

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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

Bill of Health

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. They leafed through magazines or scrolled on their phones, waiting. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. Neither of these circumstances applied to Nebraska Twenty.

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Is Preemption the Cure for Healthcare Federalism’s Restrictions on Medication Abortion?

Bill of Health

healthcare system, representing just one example of “healthcare federalism” — the division of power between the federal and state governments in the regulation of health care. Attorney General Merrick Garland made the position of the federal government clear, stating: “[T]he FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone.

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

Bill of Health

Both Robert and Valentina Wasson published sensational magazine articles in Life! federal government remained unresponsive to the wealth of evidence supporting the therapeutic use of psychedelics. and This Week, respectively, along with subsequent texts that exposed María Sabina without consent, credit, or compensation.

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Driving Innovation in Healthcare: How an Ecosystem Approach to IoMT has the Potential to Transform Patient Care and Cost Management

Healthcare IT Today

The next key step is to ensure you have the appropriate architecture and clear governance of what data is stored where, how it is used, and who has access to it. His work has been recognized and featured in publications including Becker’s Hospital Review, HISTalk, HealthTech Magazine, Healthcare IT Today, and more.

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Specialty Pharma’s Next Big Opportunity: It’s Time for Patient Access to Adopt an Open Protocol

HIT Consultant

a power Visa and ultimately the government could not deny. When Plaid effectively forced financial institutions to take an open-protocol approach to digital interoperability, “Every bank (took) their five-year strategy on digitizing and brought it down into one or two years,” CEO Zach Perret said in an interview with Fortune magazine.

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How MedTech is Rising to Help Combat the Coronavirus Pandemic

Exeed Regulatory Compliance

According to a recent Science Magazine article , South Korea tested more than 270,000 people, which amounts to about 5200 tests per million! It takes a collaborative effort across the entire healthcare sector and government agencies at the federal, state and local level.

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