Bill of Health

JANUARY 23, 2024

By Joelle Boxer Today is Maternal Health Awareness Day, focused on the theme “ Access in Crisis.” Black and Native American women in the U.S. are particularly at risk, with death rates 2-3 times higher than those of white women, due to structural racism. Black and Native American women in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 10, 2024

(Clockwise from top left: Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado , Lucía Berro Pizzarossa , Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos, Thalia Viveros Uehara ) The Petrie-Flom Center is excited to welcome four new affiliated researchers to the Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP). Daniela Cepeda Cuadrado, M.P.P. Lucía Berro Pizzarossa, L.L.B., She holds a Ph.D.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

To fix this crisis would require acknowledging and reforming those policies, and repairing the damage. As Lizabeth Cohen and others have shown , the post-WWII policies that placed consumerism at the heart of U.S. White women, on the other hand, were supposed to be calm, cooperative, and cheerful.

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Healthcare It News

JULY 21, 2022

Health equity is one of the hottest topics in healthcare today. Removing structural inequalities from the delivery of care and improving care outcomes among women, people of color and LGBTQ people is a high priority for forward-looking health systems. of $69 trillion is managed by women and people of color.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Currently, all clinical trials, as well as the program at UAB, require recipients to be cisgender women, with their own eggs, and normally in a (heterosexual) relationship. As such, employers will need to have policies in place that will allow partners of potential recipients the time to provide that support and attend appointments as needed.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2023

Gallup conducted the annual Health and Healthcare poll U.S. Note the substantial difference in women avoiding care for a serious medical condition due to cost compared with men: there is a 12-percentage point difference, with 32% of women avoiding care due to cost, compared with 20% of men. More people in the U.S.

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Health Law Advisor

JULY 13, 2023

The 21st Century digital age has provided women with numerous sexual and reproductive health tools that track periods, ovulation, and pregnancy. By simply plugging certain health data inputs into these apps, women can now accurately track the most intimate moments of their lives. Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v.

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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. Workers of color in low-wage jobs — particularly Black and Latina women — are most likely to experience these unstable scheduling practices.

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Health Populi

JULY 14, 2023

I wrote about Perrigo’s Opill here in Health Populi in May 2023 as a “signpost on the road to retail health.” Health Populi’s Hot Points: Here is Perrigo’s mission statement, which speaks to, Quality Affordability Self-care, and Trust. Welcome to the first OTC contraceptive for sale in the USA.

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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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Bill of Health

AUGUST 2, 2023

By Jordan Brooks and Tamar Ezer Expanding access to midwives and doulas in the United States is a vital and often overlooked way to increase access to culturally-congruent birthing options during pregnancy and improve health outcomes for birthing individuals and their children. The Maternal and Infant Health Crisis The U.S. In the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

There are the direct costs of the treatment (some, but not all, of which are covered by the National Health Service). However, against the context of the difficulties that some marginalized populations face in accessing fertility treatment, and health care more broadly, this law does not go far enough.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SA Health and the Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health (CEIH) recently announced the first go-live of the South Australia Statewide Patient Reported Measures (PRMs) Program. An additional two implementation stages are planned for 2024, with scope negotiations currently underway with SA Health Local Health Networks.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By Rossella De Falco Strong, well-coordinated and resilient public health care services play a vital role in preventing and responding to public health crises. A range of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies have further contributed to interpret the human rights implications of private actors’ involvement in health care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 9, 2022

Studies have shown that people denied wanted abortions are more likely to experience serious complications from the end of pregnancy and more likely to experience poor physical health for the years following the pregnancy. In Tennessee, 98 women died within a year of pregnancy in 2020, the most recent period for which data is available.

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HIPAA Journal

JULY 12, 2022

On Friday, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform announced that a probe has been initiated to determine how data brokers and health app companies are collecting and selling individuals’ personal reproductive health data. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, and Rep.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 18, 2024

While the Kenyan Constitution, adopted in 2010, allows for abortion when the pregnant person’s life or health is at risk under Article 26(4), the Kenyan Penal Code still criminalizes it—a legal grey area creating “ ambiguity, confusion, and stigma. Thus, the Court instructed Parliament to enact legislation to actualize Article 26(4).

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

South Korea forms national bio-health commission The South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has recently enacted the presidential decree that establishes the Bio-health Innovation Commission. Previously, these processes have been hindered by the compartmentalisation of various government agencies.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

Unfortunately, McKnight is one of many marginalized women of color who make up the majority of individuals criminally prosecuted for substance use during pregnancy. During her “hospital-incarceration,” she lost access to any prenatal care, and state officials did not monitor the fetus’s health. For many in the U.S.,

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HealthIT Answers

MAY 15, 2023

Topics will include direct-to-consumer healthcare, underserved populations, important regulatory/policy changes, distributed vs. centralized care, women's health, IaaS and IoT in healthcare. The post DHIS – Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit appeared first on Health IT Answers.

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HIPAA Journal

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Teijin Automotive Technologies Says Welfare Plan Data Compromised in December Ransomware Attack Teijin Automotive Technologies has recently confirmed the protected health information of 25,464 members of its welfare plan has potentially been accessed and stolen in a December 1, 2022, ransomware attack.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

By Hannah Rahim Food is Medicine interventions aim to prevent and treat diet-related chronic health conditions and reduce food insecurity by providing food to individuals and communities, in connection with the health care system. trillion each year in health care costs and lost productivity. economy approximately $1.1

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Bill of Health

MAY 12, 2022

There are plenty of strong men and women who live in American Indian communities, but those voices are erased by anti-ICWA narratives. There are plenty of strong men and women who live in American Indian communities, but those voices are erased by anti-ICWA narratives. But not for everyone.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Even with the prospect of enrolling in Medicare sooner in a year or two or three, Americans approaching retirement are growing concerned about health care costs, according to a study in JAMA Network Open. One-half said they weren’t confident in their ability to afford health insurance in or near retirement.

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Bill of Health

JULY 13, 2023

Susannah comes to the Petrie-Flom Center with expertise in reproductive health law policy, genetics, and genomics, and a wealth of experience in nonprofits, academia, and government. We asked Susannah to share a bit about herself and her past work by way of introduction to Bill of Health ’s readers. You had a stint at the U.S.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

A report by the Commonwealth Fund released this week found pervasive racial and ethnic inequities across all state health systems. Health outcomes – measured primarily by mortality rates and the prevalence of health-related problems – differ significantly based on race and ethnicity. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In health care, legal actions threaten efforts to provide scholarships to minority medical school students and other initiatives to create a physician workforce that looks more like the nation. Black women are three to four times more likely than white women to die in labor or from related complications in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

MAY 15, 2019

With lower expectations of and satisfaction with health care, Millennials in America seek three things: available, accessible, and affordable services, research from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies has found. This generation has greater engagement with employers that offer health benefits.

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Bill of Health

MAY 9, 2022

Jackson Women’s Health Organization oral arguments, Justice Amy Coney Barrett presented parental relinquishment as an alternative to abortion access. Telling women to give up the babies whom they were forced to bear is similarly coercive. The confluence of neoliberal capitalist and racist policies . By Dorothy E.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Middle East and Africa (MEA) comprises a large percentage of LMICs, and in a new report released by the Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), new cancer cases in the region are set to double by 2040 – if action is not taken now to change this.

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 19, 2023

Most employee HIPAA violations are addressed according to a Covered Entity’s sanctions policy. Jackson Women`s Health Organization, which led to many states introducing anti-abortion legislation and women having to cross state lines to have terminations in states where abortions are still legal.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 4, 2021

A new advocacy group called Moving Health Home launched on Wednesday, bringing together some heavy hitters – major health systems, care delivery services and technology vendors – who say they want to effect a shift in thinking about treating patients at home, and want to adjust reimbursement models accordingly.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

A Health Affairs study found that telemedicine use during the COVID-19 pandemic was lower in communities with higher rates of poverty – suggesting that the industry must address the digital divide in order to ensure widespread access to virtual care. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare It News

MAY 6, 2022

MedTech Europe welcomes launch of European Health Data Space. The European Commission this week launched the European Health Data Space (EHDS), which will allow citizens to access their health data in any EU member state. NHSE tech director Harjeet Dhalival to join Palantir.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 28, 2024

It can be especially effective for patients in those underserved or rural areas where we see the largest issues with access to care due to health provider shortages. Currently, 100mm people live in primary care physician shortage areas and 160MM live in mental health provider shortage areas.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

According to researchers, more than 19 million women of reproductive age are living in "contraceptive deserts," defined as areas with fewer than one health center for every 1,000 women in need of publicly funded contraception. That's where telehealth can come in. "Telehealth is regulated by state laws."

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 24, 2024

Here’s what you need to know: Enhanced Accuracy and Representation: ICD-11 boasts a wider range of codes catering to women’s health concerns, including menstrual abnormalities, endometriosis, and obstetric complications.

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