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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

Article 6 of the TRIPS states that “the exhaustion of intellectual property rights” is left to “each Member free to establish its own regime for such exhaustion without challenge,” a topic that was front and center of the 1998 to 2001 litigation between drug companies and South Africa.

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The High Cost-of-Thriving and the Evolving Social Contract for Health Care

Health Populi

23% of households had zero or negative net worth in 2017, up from 16% in 2001. The research calls out that consumers’ retirement concerns are declining physical health and running out of money. A further datapoint in the McKinsey social contract report is that over half of individuals in wealthy countries, including the U.S.,

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Against American Public Health Exceptionalism

Bill of Health

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.

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Tools, Technology Already Exist for HIEs to Succeed

Healthcare IT Today

Consolidating and coordinating information between providers, payers and public health departments is particularly tough, not only because there are so many providers, but because of the variability between data platforms and systems. In 2001, Sonia was appointed to the West Virginia Health Care Authority (WVHCA).

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4 Key Ways QHINs Will Improve Healthcare Interoperability

HIT Consultant

“QHINs are the pillars of TEFCA network-to-network exchange, providing shared services and governance to securely route queries, responses, and messages across networks for eligible participants including patients, providers, hospitals, health systems, payers, and public health agencies,” according to ONC.

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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

In a previous post I discussed important public health issues that digital technology can address. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) from 2001 to 2014, deaths due to overdoses in the USA were noted as: 8 fold increase due to prescription drugs. Among them is drug addiction. 6 fold increase due to heroin.

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What Has COVID Ever Done For Us? Here 9 Examples

HIT Consultant

The early 2020s will be studied by historians as a time of global uncertainty when an unknown pathogen caused a public health emergency that brought the world to the brink. Prior to launching Snedden Campbell, in 2001, he held senior roles for some of the UK’s biggest recruitment companies. Gene-editing technologies.