Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Physicians have become more familiar with various AI use cases that are helping reduce administrative burden, bolster cognitive processes, and streamline scribing, documentation, and notes.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 9, 2023

In an earlier post on Bill of Health , I documented a similar example of the nirvana fallacy regarding the possibility of temporary closures of high-risk contexts such as bars and indoor dining. One objection to such an intervention is the notion that it might “contribute to new problems that require intervention (i.e.,

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Bill of Health

MAY 4, 2022

In one case, viral photos document the evacuation of pregnant women, including one on a stretcher who later died, from a maternity hospital in Mariupol destroyed by Russian shelling. It is likely that investigations will show that many of these acts are war crimes.

Hospitals 264

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Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

The three universal components of the personal information commons are: Identity and authentication (signing-in and signing documents). Identity and authentication (signing-in and signing documents). Requests for information (forms, searches, conversations). Stored results (labs, prescriptions, social contacts, transactions).

Governance 182

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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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Bill of Health

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2019, a Chinese court found that Dr. He and his collaborators had “ forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos into two women ” in deliberate violation of national regulations on biomedical research and medical ethics.

Informed Consent 253

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Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

Many governments have welcomed Ukrainian pets with or without their owners, and without documentation, rabies vaccine, and/or microchip. The EU announced a special derogation in Regulation 2013/576, allowing the import of Ukrainian refugee pets without meeting standard requirements.

Governance 263

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers.

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Bill of Health

JULY 17, 2023

The societal emphasis on knowledge that can be communicated and documented in words is itself a form of expressive hermeneutical injustice. It fails to recognize the epistemic agency of people with embodied, tacit and affective knowledges that may not be communicated linguistically.

Governance 130

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Over one-third of health care leaders plan to implement automation in the next 3 years for equipment maintenance and monitoring, clinical documentation and notetaking, and medication management. Least-used yet but most-likely to implement in the next 3 years is automation for workflow prioritization — thing triage for workflow.

Nurses 71

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

At least 150 Google employees already have access to much of the data on tens of millions of patients, according to a person familiar with the matter and the documents.” And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified.

Doctors 66

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Bill of Health

MAY 17, 2022

Yet, nowhere in the supporting evidence is any mention of the extensively documented adverse effects that withholding gender-affirming care can have on children and families. Her areas of interest include health equity, bioethics, and patient-centered clinical care.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Termination or loss of pregnancy may be similarly documented, thereby creating an evidentiary record that can be used in court by prosecutors in states that have outlawed abortion to prosecute the formerly pregnant person.

Public Health 324

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Susannah Fox has collected over twenty years of notes recording patients’ and caregivers’ experiences which, collectively, document the growing phenomenon of peer-to-peer healthcare she observed early in her career working on the Internet and health.

Governance 135

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 17, 2022

The investigation also uncovered the Meta Pixel tracker installed on the patient portals of seven medical systems and documented patient data being transmitted by the tracker on five of the seven. On other hospitals’ websites, we documented the Meta Pixel collecting similarly intimate information about real patients.

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Health Populi

JULY 1, 2019

This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others. Not only that, they directed the streams of data to researchers who were standing by, catching every drop, like phlebotomists filling vial after vial.

Health Insurance 86

Health Insurance Pharmaceutical Industry HIPAA Bioethics 86

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Luciano Bottini Filho is a Lecturer in Human Rights at Sheffield Hallam University and Affiliated Researcher with the Global Health and Human Rights Project at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

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Bill of Health

MAY 20, 2024

For compliance, stakeholders must thoroughly identify and document risks, continually audit, and keep abreast of technical standards, ensuring these tools are used safely and responsibly in the healthcare sector. This process involves documenting all AI applications and implementing a risk classification framework.

Bioethics 113

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Bill of Health

APRIL 3, 2025

Limit cooperation to what is required by law and require proper identification and legal documents before complying. A version of this post originally appeared in Hastings Bioethics Forum. Lynettemartins.bsky.social Rachel Fabi , PhD, HEC-C, is an associate professor of bioethics and humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

In 1990, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act was signed into law to help consumers make better choices and encourage food companies to produce healthier food, the International Food Information Center has documented in its history of the Nutrition Facts label.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

Consider automating administrative tasks from patient scheduling appointment, supporting clinical decision making based on patient data across the continuum of care and regardless of site of care, easing clinical documentation, and providing real-time understanding of risks and areas for improvement.

Nurses 71

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

This approach risks normalizing measures such as the already well-documented and problematic privatization of health care systems, which is often accepted without sufficient scrutiny as part of a necessary solution package. Alicia Ely Yamin J.D.,

Bioethics 100

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics.

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