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Managing Competing Government Data Requirements and Best Practices to Balance Sharing with Protection

MRO Compliance

Plus, there’s a complex maze of national and state laws which govern when and how healthcare data can and should be shared. View Full Article  And everything in between. Healthcare IT Today’s John Lynn dove into the topic at the AHIMA 2024 National Conference with MRO Chief Product Officer, Mo Weitnauer.

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Harmonizing Africa’s Data Governance: Challenges and Solutions

Bill of Health

This article delves into two critical legal dimensions of cross-border trade facilitation: data privacy and data ownership. The introduction of this protocol on digital trade could be a game-changer in streamlining Africa’s data governance and in paving the way for an African single data market.

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The Proposed TRIPS Compromise Risks Setting Several Bad Precedents

Bill of Health

The original proposal tabled by India and South Africa in 2020 as IP/C/W/669 would have waived 40 articles of the WTO Trade Related Agreement on Intellectual Property Rights, known as the TRIPS. 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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A Lesson Learned From COVID-19: The Significance of The Primary Care Physician Shortage

Electronic Health Reporter

This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell. The article A Lesson Learned From COVID-19: The Significance of The Primary Care Physician Shortage appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Climate Change and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Africa: The Urgent Need for Intersectional Approaches in Climate Change Policy and Governance

Bill of Health

This article advocates for the adoption of an intersectional approach in the implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ). Climate-related disasters frequently disrupt health care services , limiting women’s access to essential SRH care such as contraceptives and maternal health services.

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Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing

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In the same year that the deliberative public engagement study on heritable HGE was conducted in South Africa, an expert advisory committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) published its policy proposals for a global governance framework for HGE.

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The European Commission’s New Compulsory Licensing Proposal: A Step Forward?

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When there is a compulsory license in place, a government of a country allows a third party to manufacture and distribute a product protected by patents, without the consent of the patent owner. The Commission may grant a Union compulsory license where a crisis or an emergency mode has been declared ( Article 4 ). For example, the U.S.

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