The U.S. Government and the World Health Organization
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MAY 19, 2022
This fact sheet provides information about the World Health Organization (WHO) and U.S. government funding and engagement with WHO.
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Rapid AI adoption could cause medical errors, patient harm, WHO warns, urging oversight
Healthcare Dive
MAY 18, 2023
The World Health Organization warned that caution is not being exercised with the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare, and called for rigorous oversight of the new technology.
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World Health Day 2019: Let’s Celebrate Food, Climate, Insurance Coverage and Connectivity
Health Populi
APRIL 7, 2019
Today, 7 April, is World Health Day. With that in mind, I devote this post to three key social determinants of health (SDOH) that are top-of-mind for me these days: food for health, climate change, and universal health coverage. UHC happens to be WHO’s focus for World Health Day 2019. [As
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World Health Organization releases guidelines for digital health adoption
Mobi Health News
APRIL 17, 2019
WHO released 10 guidelines for how countries can use digital health tools to improve patient care.
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World Health Organizations releases guidelines for digital health adoption
Mobi Health News
APRIL 17, 2019
WHO released 10 guidelines for how countries can use digital health tools to improve patient care.
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The Role of Companion Apps In Preventive Healthcare
Electronic Health Reporter
APRIL 25, 2023
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Reclaiming Global Public Health
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
Consider the United States, for example, which made the unprecedented move to leave the World Health Organization (WHO) during the pandemic. This ascension of private IP holders in the pandemic was accompanied by a retreat from the global stage by powerful public actors.
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Q&A: Using AI to expand access to breast cancer screening
Mobi Health News
AUGUST 26, 2022
According to the World Health Organization, breast cancer survival rates vary significantly between different countries.
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The Assistive Technologies That Matter Right Now
Electronic Health Reporter
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Sadly, the World Health […]. Assistive technologies are tools and devices that support the needs of people with disabilities. These technologies aim to improve the lives of more than 100 million people who experience significant disabilities.
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Several EU nations set to mandate vaccination for COVID passes
Healthcare It News
JANUARY 5, 2022
Europe has been recording record numbers of COVID infections with 5,676,048 new cases and 41,525 deaths reported over the last seven days, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) (5 Jan). WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.
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5 Ways Health Technology Is Impacting Mental Health
Electronic Health Reporter
JULY 20, 2022
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Behavioral and mental health challenges are serious issues around the world. In fact, according to recent research conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO), almost one billion people live with some type of mental affliction […].
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Kinnos Secures $15M to Expand Colorizing Disinfection Platform
HIT Consultant
MAY 2, 2023
Star Registered by the Global Biorisk Advisory Council (GBAC) and recognized by the World Health Organization, Highlight temporarily colors disinfectant wipes and cleaning solutions that hospitals already use to provide staff with an instantaneous visual cue to improve the quality of disinfection.
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AI for health can't leave older people behind, says WHO
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
The World Health Organization released a policy brief this past week aimed at combating age-related bias in health-related artificial intelligence tools.
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Vaccine credentials enabling wider progress on public health interoperability
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
They'll explain how it's now positioned to move beyond mere immunization status and toward a larger approach to interoperable health records. And they'll show how, through an upcoming collaboration with the World Health Organization and the G20, those advancements can soon be expanding globally.
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COVID-19: Vaccine mandate enforced in Austria
Healthcare It News
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
For the last seven days, the World Health Organisation (WHO) registered about 11,287,292 newly reported cases in Europe which is nearly double the case numbers compared to a month ago. With double vaccination, EU citizens currently have a valid EUDCC for up to nine months without additional testing. THE LARGER TREND.
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Monthly Round-Up of What to Read on Pharma Law and Policy
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Reforming the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List: Essential but Unaffordable. New Federal Incentives for Diversity in Clinical Trials. N Engl J Med. 2022 Oct 13;387(15):1347-1349. Epub 2022 Oct 8. Hwang TJ, Kesselheim AS, Vokinger KN. 2022 Oct 24. Epub ahead of print.
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Experiencing a COVID-Era Doctor’s Office Through the Hard of Hearing Community
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2021
According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 The following is a guest article by Joe Duarte, Co-CEO of InnoCaption. billion people across the globe live with some degree of hearing loss, and roughly 430 million people require rehabilitation services for their hearing loss.
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DHAGE identifies digital inclusion as key goal in building a resilient society
Healthcare It News
OCTOBER 29, 2021
DHAGE called upon organisations such as the European Union, the World Health Organisation and the OECD to set up and fund an initiative for promoting digital inclusion. An upskilling of the workforce could assist in the rolling out and implementation of new digital tools and technology. This would create a greater knowledge database.
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Lessons from the Pandemic: How COVID-19 Shaped the Future of Medical Systems
Medical Gas Compliance
APRIL 21, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO), the agency responsible for international public health, has stated the pandemic is at a “transition point.” While treating the coronavirus is still a primary focus for healthcare facilities, one thing is becoming clear–-We are shifting away from Covid-19 being considered a global emergency.
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WHO's director for Europe urges solidarity in using digital tools to combat COVID-19
Mobi Health News
JULY 23, 2020
Hans Henri Kluge, the World Health Organization’s director for Europe, presented on digital tools during the FutureMed conference this afternoon.
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The 3 Emerging Technologies For Dementia
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 5, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. According to the World Health Organization, dementia affected more than 50 million people worldwide in 2019, with 10 million more cases being added each year. Illegal copying is prohibited.
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Introduction to the Symposium: Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID
Bill of Health
MARCH 7, 2022
This week marks the two-year anniversary of World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declaring COVID-19 a pandemic. By Chloe Reichel, Marissa Mery, and Michael Ashley Stein.
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NHS introduces new online service amid coronavirus crisis
Mobi Health News
MARCH 4, 2020
Based on the latest figures from the World Health Organization, as of the morning of 3 March, there have been nearly 91,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally.
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HIMSS Announces Cancellation of The 2020 Global Health Conference & Exhibition
Electronic Health Reporter
MARCH 5, 2020
This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Today, following recent reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HIMSS announced it is clearly necessary to cancel the 2020 HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition. […].
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Accelerating PCOR through Synthetic Health Data Generation
HealthIT Answers
OCTOBER 8, 2022
By Stephanie Garcia & Carmen Smiley - Real world health data are critical for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR). However, it’s often difficult, expensive, and time consuming for researchers to access real-world clinical health data because of privacy concerns, security restrictions, and usage issues.
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Neura Health Raises $8M to Expand Virtual Neurology Clinic
HIT Consultant
MAY 17, 2023
Neurology is a top-five spend category for self-insured employers and health plans supporting commercial insurance, and the incremental cost of medical claims for a patient with a migraine compared to a patient without a migraine is $3,088 per year. One out of every six U.S.
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Cross-border collaborations lead to data sharing efforts during COVID-19
Mobi Health News
OCTOBER 26, 2020
Panelists at the World Health Summit discuss lessons learned from international collaborations during the pandemic.
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Biotech Companies Are Opening Manufacturing Sites in Africa: Will This Help Vaccine Equity?
Bill of Health
JANUARY 17, 2023
While Moderna and BioNTech are taking active steps toward increasing manufacturing capacities internationally, these same companies also have decided not to participate in the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 mRNA technology transfer hub in South Africa, which was established last year with the aim of expanding sharing of knowledge of vaccine manufacturing (..)
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How COVID-19 Has Prepared Us for the Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout
HealthIT Answers
AUGUST 11, 2022
The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak to be a global health emergency. The post How COVID-19 Has Prepared Us for the Monkeypox Vaccine Rollout appeared first on Health IT Answers.
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A Brief History of Drug Abuse and Treatment
Electronic Health Reporter
DECEMBER 5, 2019
It’s an epidemic and continues to spread throughout the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 11 million people inject drugs. Whether you’re a suburban resident or city girl, you’re going to see the effects of drug abuse. Some users live […].
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Aiberry Secures $8M in Seed Funding to Accelerate AI-Powered Mental Health Screenings
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 16, 2023
The new funds, which bring total funding to $10M, will be used to accelerate adoption of the Aiberry platform, which uses an AI-powered therapeutic assistant to conduct a conversation to detect mental health disorders by analyzing what is being said, the speech patterns being used and even subtle changes in facial expressions.
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The Unfurling Crisis of Unfunded Isolation, Testing, and Treatment of Infectious Disease in the US
Bill of Health
NOVEMBER 3, 2022
There is no federally-mandated sick pay in the United States, and even after the World Health Organization , and the Biden administration declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency, Congress has failed to even consider legislation to financially support people isolating with MPX infection.
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HIMSS22 Europe: ‘We need to develop eco-friendly digital health’
Healthcare It News
JUNE 18, 2022
of the world’s net greenhouse gas emissions come from the healthcare sector – double those from the airline industry. According to a report from the NGO, Healthcare without Harm , around 4.4% These emissions directly lead to global warming.
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Rebuilding Trust in Public Health and Public Health Law
Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
The pandemic also underscored that, as the World Health Organization has stated, health is not simply the absence of disease. Social isolation has led to a mental health crisis. Shutdowns undoubtedly saved lives. But they also had costs. Students have lost educational ground.
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Aiberry Secures $8M for AI-Powered Mental Health Screenings
HIT Consultant
MARCH 8, 2023
AI-Powered Mental Health Screening for Healthcare Providers Mental health issues are widespread and growing rapidly. The World Health Organization estimated in 2019 that 280 million people in the world have depression (1), while the National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) estimated in 2021 that 11.7%
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Sheba Medical Center turns to XRHealth to provide quarantined coronavirus-exposed patients with VR telehealth tools
Mobi Health News
MARCH 3, 2020
According to the latest figures from the World Health Organization, as of the morning of 2 March, there were nearly 89,000 cases of COVID-19 confirmed globally.
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Landcent seeks €2 million investment into next generation of malaria prevention products
Mobi Health News
JULY 9, 2020
The initiative aims to accelerate the World Health Organisation’s goal of a malaria-free world by 2040.
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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 20, 2021
A recent study published in Nature found 37% of deaths related to heat exposure around the world between 1991 and 2018 were related to global warming caused by humans. ON THE RECORD.
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Solve.Care adds India to its global telehealth network
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
APRIL 5, 2021
In March last year, the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare issued new guidelines for telemedicine practice which boosted the use of telehealth services in the country. Currently, the country has a doctor-to-patient ratio of 1:1000, which is below the World Health Organization’s recommended ratio.
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Wysa Secures $20M for AI-Powered Mental Health Chatbot
HIT Consultant
JULY 14, 2022
Address Global Mental Health Demand With AI Digital Therapeutics. Globally, there is a huge demand-supply gap in the mental health space. One in eight people in the world live with a mental disorder, according to the World Health Organization.
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Swedish company Flow unveils brain stimulation headset and app to treat depression in the UK
Mobi Health News
JUNE 3, 2019
Over 300 million people around the world suffer from depression, according to the World Health Organisation.
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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Micky Tripathi from the US Department of Health and Human Services, Ali Juma Alajme of the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) in the United Arab Emirates, Dr Naeema Alqusser representing the World Health Organization (WHO) in Egypt, and Dr. Taghreed Justinia from King Saud bin Abdulaziz University of Health Sciences in Saudi Arabia.
SameSky Health is Making Meaningful Progress on Health Equity
Healthcare IT Today
JANUARY 4, 2023
Healthcare IT Today sat down with Mason to get his take on the current state of health equity and to dive deeper into the impact his company is having. Health Equity Defined. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), health equity is achieved when everyone can attain their full potential for health and well-being.
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Patient Safety Awareness Week – March 13 – 19, 2022
Healthcare Blog
MARCH 16, 2022
The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 million deaths.
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