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Providing Clean Air in Indoor Spaces: Moving Beyond Accommodations Towards Barrier Removal

Bill of Health

One of the most persistently frustrating aspects of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), as currently applied to schools and workplaces, is its emphasis on the eligibility of qualifying individuals for accommodation, rather than on population-based removal of barriers to participation. The ADA is a floor, not a ceiling.

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Steering healthcare's digital evolution: Marrying technology with the human element

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Technology, ranging from basic software to advanced surgical robotics, empowers us to document, scrutinise, and refine our methodologies, ensuring enhanced quality and safety in patient care. At Grupo Lusíadas Saúde, adopting technology has been pivotal in shifting the organisational culture.

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Our New Remote Workplace Culture Creates Opportunities for Disabled Employees

Bill of Health

This shift in our workplace culture presents employment opportunities for disabled people that they may not have had in the past, even with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA was enacted in 1990 to guarantee disabled people “ equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency.”

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Public Health Law and Civil Rights Laws Must Work Together to Rise to the Challenge of Long COVID

Bill of Health

This article will discuss the importance of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in protecting the rights of people with long COVID and other disabilities in the workplace, in health care, and in disability and other benefits in order to chart an equitable path forward.

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A Categorical No to Categorical Accommodation Denials Related to COVID-19?

Bill of Health

Kutztown University are not unusual: a high-risk employee sought an accommodation to work remotely as a result of medically-documented disabilities. However, neither the ADA nor the Rehabilitation Act require accommodations to have an end date. The chain of events leading to the reasonable accommodation denial in Oross v.

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Evolution: Why It’s Time to Look at Digital Health ROI Differently

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That’s no surprise, given that 41% of physicians are spending four or more hours every day on documentation alone. About Dr. Shubs Upadhyay, Director of Medical Quality, Ada Health Dr. Shubs Upadhyay is the Director of Medical Quality at Ada Health , an NHS urgent care GP, Clinical Entrepreneur Fellow (2018/19) and co-creator of myGPevents.

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A Patient’s Right to Masked Health Care Providers

Bill of Health

The Legal Right to Masked Health Care Providers Both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) bar covered health care facilities and providers from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in the provision of benefits and services.

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