Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Here, we examine hype in the context of a perennial tension at the heart of patenting communication: between advertising innovation and keeping it secret. First, not unlike psychedelic patent applications more broadly, a large percentage of MindMed’s claims to innovation are overly broad. Eight of MindMed’s U.S.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

The closer you get to the fire the more you get burned. If you’re in health care and don’t live under a rock, you have probably heard that United Health Group (UHG) has acquired PatientsLikeMe (PLM). By Susannah Fox, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn and Lisa Suennen. I’ve lived long enough to have learned. A sum of their data?

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Health Law Advisor

JULY 11, 2023

This post explores how bias can creep into word embeddings like word2vec, and I thought it might make it more fun (for me, at least) if I analyze a model trained on what you, my readers (all three of you), might have written. Are you interested in what collective biases there might be in your writings?

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Hall Render

APRIL 15, 2022

Here’s the latest on Covid in Arizona. More than 4K Stanford nurses vote to strike in California. Queen’s hospital nurses on Hawai’i Island paid nearly 20% less than O?ahu HHS Seeks Input on Critical HIPAA Enforcement Considerations. HHS warns of cyber gang Lapsus$: 5 things to know. Is it sustainable?

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Hall Render

MARCH 9, 2023

NATIONAL Cleveland Clinic, Ascension, Kaiser among 42 health systems chosen for $50M innovation project FTC tells Amazon, One Medical: Be careful how you use patient data Hospital organizations urge Congress to prevent Medicaid DSH cuts One Medical CEO rebuts Amazon data privacy concerns Rural hospital crisis: Momentum builds in Congress for bipartisan (..)

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Kaiser Health News

JANUARY 12, 2023

However, some in the caucus question the wisdom of holding votes on issues like these that could make their more moderate members more vulnerable. Divisions are more likely to emerge on topics like a national abortion ban. Meanwhile, as open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act nears its Jan.

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Kaiser Health News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

He urged Congress to do more, including making permanent the boosted insurance premium subsidies added to the Affordable Care Act during the pandemic. As always, news happens fast, and things might have changed by the time you hear this. So here we go. We’re taping this week on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 10 a.m.

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