Healthcare Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2021

While the pandemic has made it increasingly difficult to find help for mental health illnesses in the past 18 months, these issues have been around for years, with many countries not offering mental health resources at all.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) is weighing-in with free resources related to health care. In January 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) posted a new guidance regarding AI ethics and governance guidance of large multi-modal models. AIHC is a non-profit organization.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Particularly pertinent to the Healthcare IT Today blog, wellness is a goal promised by many digital apps. Until recently, some experts claimed that a drink a day could improve health. Only this year did the World Health Organization announce that any level of alcohol consumption is harmful. (My

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

the principles encourage international cooperation, “including measures for technical and economic cooperation, and equitable access to health goods, facilities, services and technologies.” The World Health Organizations (WHO) agreements are central in this context.” For example, in Article 2.2,

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MedTrainer

MAY 22, 2024

The World Health Organization reports that every year, about 1 in 10 patients is harmed in a healthcare setting. Many of those are preventable using healthcare incident reporting software to track potentially harmful events.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The Health Pavilion at COP29 represented the momentum that has been building since COP16 to acknowledge the climate-health nexus within the UNFCCC. Yet this progress was not abstracted from the structural bias shaping the broader climate governance regime.

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AIHC

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The World Health Organization (WHO) is weighing-in with free resources related to health care. In January 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) posted a new guidance regarding AI ethics and governance guidance of large multi-modal models. AIHC is a non-profit organization.

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Health Populi

JULY 6, 2018

Three reports published in the past few weeks give us some useful perspective on that question, woven together in today’s Health Populi blog. Let’s start with the Philips Future Health Index , which assesses value to 16 national health systems through three lenses: access, satisfaction, and efficiency.

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Health Populi

APRIL 3, 2020

“We are not doctors, we are not nurses, we are not decision makers…but we are designers, so we found a way to tap into what we do best…And we hope it will help, even just a little,” the duo Guillaume Roukhomovsky and Blaz Verhnnjack told the It’s Nice That blog.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In this blog, we’ll describe near-miss events and how incident reporting software helps healthcare organizations better understand causes and ways to prevent future problems. Healthcare has its own near-miss events where a complication or medical error causes injury but the patient survives. What are near-miss events in healthcare?

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“I’m in Berlin, and we don’t like walls,” Bart De Witte responded in a concluding Q&A session yesterday at the 2 nd Symposium on the Future of Health Systems, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Porto on 5 th September. For health care in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 5, 2024

How AI can democratize and enchant health care – the WHO perspective In January 2024 I explored the World Health Organization’s report on Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health in my Health Populi blog. Let me explain from a global to a local lens….

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Jane Sarashon

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This year-end/New Year 2022 post on my Health Populi blog will weave together many of the key findings from these consumer health/care reports that are most resonating with me and the work I’m doing…. Many tech companies are working to improve public health and individuals’ health equity.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

As showed in a policy-brief by GI-ESCR , this situation might amount to a violation of the right to health under domestic constitutional and international law.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This symposium gathers reflections from leading scholars, activists, jurists, and others from around the world with respect to the recently issued Principles. Historically, Global Health Law has been permeated with colonialism and concerned with preserving travel and trade rather than protecting human dignity, health and life.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Building on Siracusa to develop new human rights principles for public health emergencies Once again, the ICJ played a leading role in collaboration with the Global Health Law Consortium in drafting the PH Principles—released alongside the World Health Assembly in May 2023.

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Health Populi

MARCH 12, 2020

Consumers around the world are actively stockpiling emergency supplies as concerns grow that…COVID-19 could become a worldwide pandemic.”. Eight days later, the World Health Organization did indeed name this new virus challenge a “pandemic.”.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised unprecedented challenges for the global health framework and its long-term consequences are not yet in full sight. The legal and institutional regime aimed at preventing and controlling the spread of infectious diseases, grounded on the International Health Regulations (IHR) was heavily criticized.

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Healthcare Blog

MARCH 16, 2022

The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 million deaths.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By Tara Davis and Nicola Soekoe In January 2021, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the world was on the brink of a “catastrophic moral failure” if wealthier nations did not ensure the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Health Populi

MARCH 1, 2023

On the positive side, one in three people believe they will be more satisfied with their personal health and well-being by the end of the year — and as health consumers, expect to spend more money on healthcare, vitamins and supplements, and personal care and hygiene. In the U.S.,

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I myself used the blogging platform you’re on now to promote the February ’22 issue of Health Affairs in the Hot Points following my post featuring Abner Mason’s origin story on Love and Health which traced his boyhood in Durham, NC, to founding ConsejoSano, now SameSky Health.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 18, 2022

I welcome and dig into the Edelman Trust Barometer every year, and put on my health/care lens when reviewing its findings. In this Health Populi blog, I’ll cover the global results and some of the granular health-related nuggets I can divine from this overall world-view. In the U.S.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In 2016, the Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the existing worldwide health-system architecture to be strengthened with an empowered, well-governed, sustainably financed, and accountable World Health Organization at its apex, and efficient, equitable, and resilient national health systems at its foundation.

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Healthcare Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual event intended to encourage everyone to learn more about health care safety. The World Health Organization estimates that 134 million adverse events occur each year due to unsafe care in hospitals in low- and middle-income countries, resulting in some 2.6 million deaths (2019).

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

A new template for the Certificate of a Pharmaceutical Product will be put into use in line with China’s pharmaceutical export practices and the latest World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. The electronic certificate and the paper version are equally authentic.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (the Principles) do not make explicit reference to infodemics, the application of digital technologies in response to a public health emergency is a clear concern.

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SQA

AUGUST 1, 2024

The adoption of these mechanisms is recommended and encouraged by the World Health Organization (WHO) so that the population has faster access to health services and technologies. Specifically, the firm failed to place at least one lot of their API manufactured in 2019, 2020, or 2021 on stability annually.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) WHO: Excipients GMP Guideline Published for Comments, 03 May 2023 In March 2023, the WHO published the first draft of the guideline WHO Good Manufacturing Practices for Excipients Used in Pharmaceutical Products on its website for comments. Floor 9, No.

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SQA

AUGUST 8, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) WHO: Excipients GMP Guideline Published for Comments, 03 May 2023 In March 2023, the WHO published the first draft of the guideline WHO Good Manufacturing Practices for Excipients Used in Pharmaceutical Products on its website for comments. Floor 9, No.

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MedTrainer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Globally, medication errors cost an estimated $42B USD annually, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Medical errors can cause a variety of problems for patients, including: Physical injury Disability Death Emotional distress Financial hardship What is the Number One Error in Healthcare?

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SQA

JULY 8, 2022

World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO Pharmaceuticals Newsletter provides you with the latest information on the safety of medicinal products and legal actions taken by regulatory authorities around the world. These features can be restored with a SmartSync programmer session with your cardiologist.

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SQA

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The entry into force closes a long revision process, which has been driven jointly by PIC/S and the EMA GMP/GDP Inspectors Working Group (GMDP IWG) in close co-operation with the European Commission (EC) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Product Alert N o 5/2023: Substandard (Contaminated) Syrup Medicines, 19 July 2023 Medical Product Alert N o 5/2023 refers to a batch of substandard (contaminated) Naturcold Syrup identified in Cameroon and first reported to WHO on 13 March 2023.

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SQA

OCTOBER 18, 2023

World Health Organization (WHO) Medical Product Alert N o 5/2023: Substandard (Contaminated) Syrup Medicines, 19 July 2023 Medical Product Alert N o 5/2023 refers to a batch of substandard (contaminated) Naturcold Syrup identified in Cameroon and first reported to WHO on 13 March 2023.

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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. By Chloe Reichel, Marissa Mery, and Michael Ashley Stein.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While summarizing the entire content of the 13 blogs comprising this symposium in any depth is not possible here, this concluding post will attempt to synthesize some of the major inputs from the contributions. As is already evident, the COVID-19 pandemic, much like pandemics of the past, have resulted in significant social change.

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