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Digital Health Gaps in the Pandemic Through the Eyes of Younger Physicians

Health Populi

Two-thirds of younger physicians said that their work during the COVID-19 crisis did not impact them wanting to remain in the medical profession. We must acknowledge the heroic sacrifices that front-line healthcare professionals have endured in the fight against COVID-19. The first chart of U.S. Today, 9/11.

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Record Numbers of People in the U.S. Putting Off Medical Care Due to Cost – A New “Pink Tax” on Women?

Health Populi

This was the highest level of self-rationing care due to cost the pollster has found since its inaugural study on the topic in 2001. ” In the COVID-19 pandemic, it was women who were hit financially harder than men in the U.S. (a Gallup conducted the annual Health and Healthcare poll U.S.

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Americans’ Perspectives on Pharma and Healthcare Industries Are Low and Low-Ish Compared with Most Other Sectors

Jane Sarashon

In this last chart, we can see the boomerang shift of Americans’ views of the grocery industry in the past few years, from its apex in 2020 in the stay-at-home phase of COVID-19’s public health crisis.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

During the early days of COVID-19, CSS took a tremendous burden off local health departments that needed to do contract tracing. In recent years, some states leveraged the power of HIEs to identify COVID-19 hotspots in communities. In 2001, Sonia was appointed to the West Virginia Health Care Authority (WVHCA).

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Praying For The Survival of the NHS Will Not Be Enough To Save It

HIT Consultant

If that is the case, then the faith of the population is being tested like never before, With budgets already stretched before the COVID pandemic , additional cost pressures since heaped on health boards across the country by double-digit inflation have brought the NHS closer to breaking point than at any time in its history.

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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. In short, the compromise only waives a single 20-word paragraph in one article: the one dealing with exports under a non-voluntary authorization.

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The Medical Library: A Hospital’s Most Underappreciated Asset

HIT Consultant

In 2001, Ellen Roche was administered a drug, hexamethonium, as part of a clinical study on asthma at Johns Hopkins University. In December 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic led to hospital department closures around the U.S., Libraries can also help medical professionals avoid certain worst-case scenarios.

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