Bill of Health

AUGUST 23, 2022

Too often throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, policymakers have justified controversial policy choices by stating that the world is not arranged in a way to make certain actions feasible. For example, last week’s weakened guidelines regarding COVID-19 mitigation from the U.S. By Daniel Goldberg.

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Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. In the U.S.,

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Bill of Health

MARCH 9, 2023

For example, public health officials at virtually every level have resisted implementation or reinstatement of mask mandates in part by arguing that either some percentage of the population will not mask or that mask mandates alone will be ineffective. Sound familiar? It’s one justification for pandemic policy inaction in a nutshell.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 22, 2022

Current calls for attention to a disability bioethics or a disability epistemology have heralded not only highlighting, but also actively promoting, the qualities, leadership skills, and valuable character traits associated with surviving and thriving in a world fundamentally not set up for one’s own needs.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

consumers in 2021 into the positive zone of 64 points, just one point behind food and beverage (an industry which is fundamentally at the base of every human’s Maslow Hierarchy of [Basic] Needs, coming through for people during the Year of COVID). Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 29, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged this separation. For far too long, for example, maladies such as chronic fatigue, brain fog, and pain were seen with skepticism as ‘exaggerated,’ ‘made up,’ or ‘unexplained illnesses’ yet they gained legitimacy once long COVID inescapably made them a public concern.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Rock Health has conducted a consumer digital health study for several years, giving us the ability to compare longitudinal findings from year to year. Tech companies are much better capitalized than health systems.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

So to give us some comfort in our collective foxhole, my last post for this week of immersion in #HIMSS21 is based on the keynote speech of Michael Dowling, CEO of Northwell Health. Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. Be agile and flexible. .

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Health Populi

AUGUST 24, 2021

In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound. “During the chaos and confusion, threat actors launched cyberattacks,” Ordr observed in the wake of the public health crisis.

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Health Populi

MARCH 10, 2025

This behavior can lead to missed and delayed diagnoses, and exacerbate health disparities — especially among female patients, as well as Black patients (and Black women more than Black men). Next consider the viral spread of medical misinformation, accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

J was brought to the Emergency Department with a cough, but after a test, we learned he was COVID positive. Clinically, it was difficult to discern if it was COVID-19 or withdrawal triggering his body aches and diarrhea. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Giant corporations such as Apple and Facebook have offered funding for social egg freezing to their female employees while provoking ongoing bioethical and public debates regarding their implications, including; medicalization , (dis)empowerment , “appropriate” motherhood , medical risks, and success rates.

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

Investments in the digital health sector have fast-grown in the past decade, reaching $14bn in 2020 based on Rock Health’s latest read on the market. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the field across many industry segments. Three in five said their growth was due to COVID-19.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

In the Relevance Quotient methodology, W2O Group defines key stakeholders as employees, patients (including the sick and the well, caregivers, consumers, et al), health care providers, advocacy groups, analysts and investors, policy makers, journalists and media outlets. In full transparency and disclosure, I am an advisor to the W2O Group.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

In the future, he envisions the mesh of the food system with the health system. The pandemic has stretched the food system to its fragile limits, dependent on corporate food conglomerates whose supply chains were broken in the public health crisis.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

can stop wearing masks, has attempted to change the reality of our COVID risk landscape by assigning new colors to risk levels and massively shifting the parameters of these criteria. is still recording nearly 2,000 COVID-19 deaths per day. For context, over the entire year of 2020, about 385,000 COVID-19 deaths were recorded.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 27, 2022

The second graphic from the report breaks out the health consumer/health citizen from the health/care industry and ecosystem: Being that intelligent guardian for our health and fitness, including partnering with third parties for digital health tools and apps, and. It will be about health.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to play a role in health care for predictive analytics, personalization, and public health. On 26th January, I’ll moderate a tweetchat at 1 pm Eastern time, brainstorming the current and future state of and opportunities for AI in health care.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Last spring, the United States crossed the bleak and preventable 1,000,000-death mark for lives lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we want to reckon with the role of health law and policy in shaping, and at times catalyzing, the impact that the pandemic has had on our loved ones and communities.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

By Nikhil Chaudhry and Reshma Ramachandran Earlier this month, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had successfully included a reasonable pricing provision in a $326M investment contract with Regeneron for development of a next generation monoclonal antibody therapy for COVID-19. pharmaceutical market.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Depoliticizing Social Murder in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Safety First: Potential Heart Health Risks of Microdosing. We look forward to continuing our coverage of key issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics in 2023. Negotiating Masks in the Workplace: When the ADA Does and Does Not Apply.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Consider, for example, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre’s remarks during President Biden’s July 2022 COVID-19 infection : “As we have said, almost everyone is going to get COVID.”. The second is “ It’s About Blood ,” a song by Steve Earle about a preventable mining disaster in 2010 that killed 29 miners.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

All those activities, couched in safety and hygiene — being protected from the tricky COVID-19 virus, which meant keeping a clean home environment in terms of air, surfaces, and hand-hygiene. Sleep has been a key theme at CES, which I began to note in 2018 in this post on prescribing sleep for health at CES.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Over the course of the pandemic it has been popular to claim that we have “learned lessons from COVID,” as though this plague has spurred a revolution in how we treat illness, debility, and death under capitalism. We have learned nothing from COVID. This is not to say that there are not lessons that can be learned from this pandemic.

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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. thus has reverberating repercussions: it strips away not only necessary public health precautions, but also hard-won adaptations, such as remote work and more generous sick leave policies.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2020

In the COVID-19 era, most U.S. consumers believe they have an obligation to share personal health information to stop the spread of the coronavirus. I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used.

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Health Populi

MARCH 23, 2021

ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute care settings, and patient engagement and health literacy — all of which play into this year’s #1 issue, racial and ethnic disparities in health care.

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Health Populi

MAY 20, 2021

You’re stressed, I’m stressed; most of us have felt stress in the COVID-19 era which began in the U.S. Nearly eighteen months later, a 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer update finds that consumers’ trust in the health care industry is under stress, too — in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2020.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This manifesto developed by the #WeAreNotWaiting Diabetes DIY movement is pertinent to all Rebels in health –motivated by accessing and bringing data to scale, or getting payers to pay for therapy or devices, or frustrated by what’s available on the market, building well-designed gear for a loved one.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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Bill of Health

JULY 28, 2022

Abstract : In September 2021, President Biden announced that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) would require large employers to ensure workers are vaccinated against Covid-19 or tested weekly. Some commentators speculated that reframing the policy as a testing mandate would boost support.

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Health Populi

APRIL 10, 2020

“Covid-19 exposes America’s racial health gap,” asserts The Economist , the weekly news magazine based in London, UK, in an advanced essay dated 11 April 2020. ” Fox45 News in Baltimore reported , “COVID-19: African-Americans impacted the most in Maryland.”

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Bill of Health

JULY 24, 2023

­­By Nate Holdren Last week, David Leonhardt took to the pages of the New York Times to celebrate the latest COVID death figures , which he claims mean the U.S. Unless COVID deaths are genuinely at zero, no level of death is actually good news, it’s just the absence of even worse news. It would be funny if it weren’t so ghastly.

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Bill of Health

JULY 5, 2023

By Sam Friedman Amid an emergent international consensus that the COVID pandemic is “over,” writings about the pandemic and its meanings have burst forth like the flowers of June. This article will focus on one such book, Lessons from the COVID War: An Investigative Report. Here, I will list a few of their major ideas and assumptions.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2024

Acknowledging this elephant in the room might be the single best path to safeguarding regulations affecting public health and safety that lie under various agencies’ aegis. By the time that case arrived on appeal, the masking mandate no longer existed as the COVID-19 emergency had dissipated. In Roman Catholic Diocese v.

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