Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Recent research provides further support: when Yale New Haven Hospital tested clinicians on staff who were seventy and older, it found that almost 13% had significant cognitive deficits. Hahn Professor of Law, Professor of Bioethics, and Co-Director of Law-Medicine Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Top among these factors include feedback loops for channeling experience and input, data privacy assurances by the hospital/provider and EHR vendors, integration with EHRs and workflows, training and seeing a physician-leader overseeing the Ai implementation.

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Health Populi

MARCH 2, 2021

The most trusted source of health information continues to be “my” physician, followed by “any” physician, then friends and family, and hospital-health plan-and pharmacy websites. Can Google grow health-trust as they, too, expand their desired footprint in health care?

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Jane Sarashon

MARCH 16, 2025

Because traditional health care organizations — hospitals, physicians, health plans — being, in Dr. Mandl’s words, “often constrained in innovation by entrenched operational structures.”

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Bill of Health

JUNE 7, 2024

But because MRI scanners are expensive and require extensive infrastructure, they have mostly been housed in hospitals and large research institutions. Traditional MRI brain scanning has transformed neuroscience research. pMRI can also help to enlarge and diversify the makeup of the MRI research community.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 12, 2021

During the pandemic, health care providers needed to deal with the security of devices rapidly procured and deployed within institutions and also outside the walls of providers, such as in field hospitals meeting the surge of coronavirus patients.

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AUGUST 13, 2021

We demonstrated in the pandemic that we could be agile, reconfiguring hospitals quickly, moving patients and staff because we had to. ” The hospital of the future is not the hospital of 2019. What is the hospital of the future look like? Be agile and flexible. ” Dowling wonders.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Healthcare Operations Optimization: Quantum algorithms could optimize scheduling for hospitals, clinical trials, and surgeries, improving efficiency and patient care. Personalized Medicine Design: Quantum-enhanced AI might analyze a patient’s genetic makeup, lifestyle, and environment to tailor treatments.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 29, 2022

However, although a large percentage of hospitalized patients lack capacity , physicians often do not feel confident in their ability to assess capacity, fail to recognize that most patients who do not have capacity lack it, and often disagree on which patients have capacity.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

When I shared these data points with hospitals and clinicians they were first stunned at the finding. Equal numbers of people in the U.S. came to trust digitally-enabled companies for managing health as large retailers and health care providers.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

hospital or EHR vendor) intervention or surveillance. A wallet secured with a face or other biometric adds speed and security to the authentication step. This allows Alice to directly interact with the resources she needs without third-party (e.g., Requests for information (forms, searches, conversations).

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Once home, if the patient engages in effective self-care, she can prevent a readmission which then can help the hospital conserve costs. “Saving 30% of costs would create the oxygen to do really interesting things,” Frans explained.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

by Stephen Wood In an era where health care inequities already burden marginalized populations, the bankruptcy of Steward Health Care culminating in the closure of several hospitals in Massachusetts, represents an unconscionable ethical failure. At the outset, politicians ignored the risk of for-profit health care in poverty-stricken markets.

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Health Populi

MARCH 27, 2025

As Thomas Jefferson reminded us, travel makes us wiserbut less happy. And so it is when you confront a piece of art that makes you stop in your tracks, swim in it, and know what its saying in terms of what you know you know.

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Health Populi

JUNE 18, 2024

Philips concludes the report noting the need for further collaboration across the health care ecosystem — health systems and hospitals, technology companies, suppliers, and policy makers.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Note that hospitals garnered only about one-half of people in this study, and pharma and health plans fell to one-third of Americans’ responses to the question. The media coverage of hospitals suing patients for late payments? The media coverage of hospitals suing patients for late payments? health care.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

With Epic in 38% of acute care hospitals (as of May 2024), their vision of democratizing and validating health AI will also help scale that easy-button for care. Further value could be realized by integrating Copilot into the EHR.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2024

Moving to deployment and implementation, we can consider health ministries and departments, pharma and life science companies, health systems and hospitals, individual providers, and the developers and providers integrated into health systems.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Finally — my most re-tweeted tweet during the session — Dr. T asserted that, “There is no room for hospitals in the future. It’s all about the patient’s bedroom.”

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Health Populi

JANUARY 9, 2020

Most consumers, in fact, identified technology companies as the source of the most health care innovation 20 years from now in a RealClear Politics poll conducted last year, which I’ve been citing in my talks with healthcare industry players in pharma, biotech, hospitals and health plan organizations.

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MARCH 7, 2019

Amazon is consumers’ most-trusted user of personal health data, compared with banks, Apple, Google, retailers, airlines, and hospitality. SmarterHQ polled over 1,000 consumers and found that: Most consumers are concerned about their data privacy, and believe that companies know too much about them.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

They completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and received their PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Harrison M.A., is a licensed marriage and family therapist, researcher, and bioethicist.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 27, 2022

From consumers’ homes and workplaces and running routes to the research bench, doctor’s offices, and hospital beds, this graphic from the report illustrates scenarios of Apple’s research flows.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 22, 2022

This semester I’m teaching Bioethics and Constitutional Law. My students always resist me on this, but I keep telling them you never know when you are going to wake up in a hospital bed, fighting for your life, and unable to make your own decisions. The Nevada hospital told me everyone was calling in to see how I was.

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Compliancy Group

JUNE 17, 2022

Use of Tracker by Hospitals Likely Violates HIPAA. An investigation by The Markup and Stat has uncovered a tracking tool used by 33 of the country’s top 100 hospitals that collects patients’ protected health information (PHI) and sends it to Facebook—including details about medical conditions, prescriptions, and physician appointments.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2021

Health consumers will have an impact on the supply side of the health care system — hospitals, physicians, pharma, medical device companies, and health plans. Home as hospital. During the pandemic, inpatient hospital beds have been in short supply in various communities across the U.S., The home gym.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

The remaining supply could be open to all who are clinically eligible, stratified by criteria including diagnosed illness, age, and unvaccinated status—but with attention to how some of these criteria can stand in tension with ethical goals like reciprocity and mitigating health inequities.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

One is the philosophical principle of autonomy, which I regularly teach in my bioethics class. Almost a full week after the accident occurred, I woke up in a Phoenix hospital. In late November, I woke up in a hospital in Houston. It’s quite a list, so sometimes I mention it to my friends, so they will be as amazed as I am.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Introduction by Lucía Berro Pizzarossa Long before telemedicine emerged as a popular avenue for accessing reproductive health services outside of hospitals and clinics, feminist organisations had already pioneered a similar revolution in self-managed reproductive care. Additional posts will run weekly.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

New companies are forming to enable people to monetize their data, so we enter another new bioethical space in this scenario. The prospect of patients/consumers monetizing their health data is a big one, with Indu asking, “Who are you (data-driven company) making money for? Indu asked what I think are the Big Question for Health 2.0

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MARCH 11, 2019

spends too much money for too little ROI on that spending, from hospital care and dental services to prescription drugs and what ultimately illustrates wasted life and potential in American society: maternal, infant and child mortality, which is by far the worst outcome in a developed nation and as bad as some much poorer countries experience.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

During the three years prior to her death, she was admitted to the hospital 30 times. But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

Members of his congregation kept going to the hospital with diet-related issues, Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, III , realized. Gray died while in police custody in April 2015, suffering a neck injury and dying in a hospital a week later. “I got tired of praying and hoping they made it and walked out,” Reverend Brown realized.

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Health Populi

APRIL 1, 2025

The health care landscape in 2030 will feature a n expanded consumer health industry t hat will become, “an established branch of the health ecosystem focused on promoting health, preventing, disease, treating symptoms and extending healthy longevity,” according to a report published by Deloitte in September 2024, Accelerating the future: (..)

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 16, 2022

During her “hospital-incarceration,” she lost access to any prenatal care, and state officials did not monitor the fetus’s health. When Lowe tried to seek treatment for her SUD in 2005, instead of getting medical care, she was forcibly taken away from her husband and son and put on an involuntary psychiatric hold.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

If we’re lucky, that beloved person had a good death: in sleep, perhaps, or simply of old age with no hospital events or trauma. And, third, the word means a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. We each have our own stories about how a loved one’s life has ended.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

If we’re lucky, that beloved person had a good death: in sleep, perhaps, or simply of old age with no hospital events or trauma. And, third, the word means a public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness. We each have our own stories about how a loved one’s life has ended.

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