Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The answer to one of the most important public health questions of our time — who gets access to vaccines? — Private decisions did not match public health need. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. Zain Rizvi is a research director at Public Citizen.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Americans are no doubt conditioned to expect spectacular failure in the face of public health crises. In both contexts, these reporting failures make it difficult to mount a competent public health response to prevent unnecessary mortality. By Jennifer D. Just as COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. While the U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

By Elizabeth Weeks The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space. Historically, public health law primacy resides with states via their core, Tenth Amendment reserved police powers to address residents’ health, safety, and welfare.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2023

By Calvin Wai-Loon Ho With the mainstreaming of digital technology across many spheres of social life, infodemic management must be an integral part of public health emergency prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

If the pandemic has taught us anything about public policy, it is that the model of countercyclical federal aid — which expands at the onset of an economic crisis but abates as that crisis is resolved — is fundamentally inadequate when applied to the realm of public health. public health expenditures fell by 30 percent.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2023

Health Justice Moreover, viable replacement options to those appliances are both readily available and cheaper than ever due to funding provided through the Inflation Reduction Act. The post The Public Health Case Against Gas Appliances appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He explained: “The Government must treat citizens as individuals, not as simply components of racial, religious, sexual or national class.” Applied to public health, the SFFA Court’s rejection of population-level factors would also lead us to overlook the factors that cause the most illness on a population level.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By John Culhane The United States Supreme Court poses a serious threat to public health, but not because the majority of the justices are necessarily opposed to laws and policies designed to protect and further public health and safety. Yet OSHA has rules governing ladder safety.) In West Virginia v.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Brian Anderson, chief digital health physician at MITRE Corporation, and Bryant Karras, chief public health informatics officer and senior epidemiologist at Washington State Department of Health, will offer an update on the progress of the Vaccine Credential Initiative, and other initiatives like it.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2023

Americans cite opioids and fentanyl, obesity, and access to guns and firearms as the top three public health challenges this summer of 2023, according to the new Axios/Ipsos American Health Index. As for government priorities dealing with public health, though, U.S. The post For Public Health, U.S.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 2, 2023

Kapp During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Establishment (PHE)/legal enterprise collaborative fell short of constitutional standards in a number of situations, resulting in adverse judicial rulings of which the PHE and its like-minded academic advocates now complain. By Marshall B.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. It is with this context in mind that I turn to reflecting on the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (“Principles”).

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 13, 2022

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators in almost every state have introduced bills that would limit state executive authority to respond to the current pandemic or future public health emergencies. Research for the dataset was provided by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Tennessee).

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Electronic Health Reporter

APRIL 26, 2023

By Ken Perez, marketing and strategy advisor to Vindeca Health and former vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If a government commits a tort, it can be sued — but the United Nations cannot be. In at least two major incidents in the last two decades, the United Nations has been responsible for major public health crises, and victims of the crises have found themselves with no recourse in any court system. By Bailey Kennedy.

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Bill of Health

MAY 2, 2023

Stripped down, a key question on appeal boils down to: how can a federal agency order the only effective public health response during the pendency of an epidemic? In other words, how can they act where they must make public health decisions under quickly developing circumstances?

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Decarceration would obviously go a long way in stopping the ongoing harms of COVID-19 in prisons and jails, and preventing such harms from future pandemics and public health crises. Going forward, official public health guidance issued to and about prisons and jails should be worded in mandatory language.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. Public health emergencies aren’t entirely preventable. That has created deep inequities in access to health products that can save lives.

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Healthcare Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

Professors at the University of Arizona argue for more robust infrastructure to understand and research long COVID-19, which impacts one in five Americans.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Colombian case reinforces that human rights and public health are not mutually exclusive. Importantly, this is reflected in the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies (2023). Can age and disability be considered in triage decisions in the face of public health emergencies?

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Modern Healthcare

MAY 11, 2023

The federal government waived rules and created flexibilities to ease the burden on the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Most of them will end Thursday.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 1, 2022

government officials and media celebrate recent economic gains , women — especially women of color — are not recouping their economic losses. Law can be a powerful tool to advance public health , and workplace scheduling is no exception. Public health agencies can play a key role in labor and employment law.

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Bill of Health

MAY 18, 2022

Other areas where the government allows Americans to deduct expenses tend to be reactive, rather than proactive. This seems to indicate that the government has a specific vision of the steps that Americans should take to get healthy — and that simply isn’t a vision that will work for everyone.

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HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Margaret Anderson, Managing Director at Deloitte Consulting LLP In response to the COVID-19 pandemic , the biomedical community took on the task of developing and deploying critical interventions to address an unprecedented public health emergency. There is no shortage of health and research challenges to address.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, public health — a sector where these benefits could have far-reaching impact — has been relatively insulated from this revolution. But probably the biggest reason why low-code development hasn’t been taken up by public health IT leaders with the same enthusiasm is data privacy. That’s all changing, however.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2023

Appreciation for public health in America tends to be a local-love thing, according to research from the de Beaumont Foundation. The COVID-19 pandemic raised health citizens’ awareness of the role and importance of public health — and for 7 in 10 people in the U.S., Nor is public health.

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The Health Law Firm Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.]

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

With support from the Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE), public health law experts from Indiana University McKinney School of Law and the Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research at the Beasley School of Law recently embarked on a systematic review of U.S.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The following post is adapted from the edited volume AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare. Which regulatory, ethical, and legal principles can best orient the construction of precision public health interventions and the implementation of technology-powered medicine?

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HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19. To move forward, public health leaders should clarify strategy from the top-down.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Introduction: The Threat to Public Health As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s third anniversary, the warning signs for the future of public health law are everywhere. Along the way, courts have displayed an alarming disinterest in science or the impact of their decisions on the public’s health.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth. However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2022

When pandemic response efforts are hampered by inadequate enforcement resources and political polarization, tort liability could, potentially, be a powerful public health tool. public health infrastructure has historically relied heavily on state and local authorities. Neither the U.S. Neither the U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 15, 2020

In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health. That was a watershed moment in U.S.

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HIPAA Journal

MARCH 28, 2022

A new bill has been proposed by a bipartisan pair of senators that aims to improve the cybersecurity of the healthcare and public health (HPH) sector, in light of the recent warning from the White House about the increased threat of Russian cyber threats. In response to the warning, on Thursday, March 24, 2022, U.S.

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