Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

After the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large employers was withdrawn last month , many pronounced private employers to be “on their own” to make decisions about vaccine requirements for their employees.

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 1, 2021

Meanwhile, the country’s COVID-19 contact tracing app will now also function as a national vaccine registry. Hayat-Vax is a joint collaboration between Sinopharm CNBG and Abu Dhabi’s G42.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2023

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. government. It is generally known that the U.S.

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Healthcare Dive

MAY 5, 2022

The trajectory of COVID-19 vaccine sales is now harder to predict amid questions about the rollout of additional doses and whether purchasing in the U.S. might shift from the federal government to private payers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 23, 2020

As millions of healthcare workers begin receiving the first vaccination to protect against COVID-19, public health officials and government leaders continue wrestling with not only the operational challenges of scale—this is the first mass vaccination since smallpox (1958-1977) and polio (1980s-present)—but also […].

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Med-Net Compliance

JUNE 22, 2022

A registered nurse from a veteran’s hospital in Detroit pleaded guilty to charges related to COVID-19 vaccination record cards fraud. Employees and applicants of healthcare facilities must provide truthful information regarding their vaccination status and understand the penalties for engaging in fraud.

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Healthcare It News

MARCH 3, 2022

In January 2021, the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness went live with LouVax, a vaccine scheduling and management system focused on increasing access to the COVID-19 vaccine. After operating on paper for a few weeks, the agency launched the tool.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

In a discussion – hosted by HIMSS Senior Vice President of Government Relations Tom Leary at the Interoperability Showcase – Anderson and Karras will spotlight recent progress in immunization management, and describe some specific challenges and opportunities as new approaches to interoperable patient records evolve.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 24, 2022

At the research and development (R&D) stage, government funders can bind producers to equity goals through targeted contractual provisions, as we explain in a recently-published Nature Biotechnology article. Consider, for instance, the case of COVID-19 vaccines. We summarize our proposals in the following sections.

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Jackson Lewis

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Supreme Court denied a request to enjoin New York State from enforcing its regulation requiring COVID-19 vaccination for healthcare workers despite the fact that the regulation did not allow for religious accommodations. Yesterday, the U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

On May 20, 2019, Milwaukee County became the first governing board in the US to pass a resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis. Local government needs to take a leadership role and we intend to do so.”. Milwaukee County used the same approach when COVID-19 vaccines became available.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The most extreme embodiment of this phenomenon, vaccine nationalism , happens when perfectly lawful tools — contracts known as advance purchase agreements — are used to skew the allocation of vaccine doses to wealthier governments and their populations whenever there is a surge in transnational demand for a given vaccine.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 13, 2022

Two California brothers were both sentenced to 36 months of probation and ordered to pay $500 dollars in restitution after pleading guilty to misdemeanor conspiracy to steal or convert government property charges stemming from the theft of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) COVID-19 Vaccination Record Cards.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Governments may face difficult policy decisions in their attempts to expeditiously control the spread of disease. Government, the U.S.

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Med-Net Compliance

JULY 8, 2022

Because the LTC facility population was at the highest risk of COVID-19 infections, the CDC created the LTC PPP to prioritize vaccinations of that population as quickly as possible and while vaccine availability was limited. The company enrolled in the LTC PPP and scheduled its first vaccination clinic on Dec.

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YouCompli

AUGUST 2, 2022

This month’s article looks at COVID enforcements.?? ?. Healthcare compliance history has shown that when the government disperses significant funds, audits and enforcement associated with the disbursement of those funds will shortly follow. MorseLife agreed to pay $1.75 million to settle the False Claims Act allegations.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Partnerships with NGOs, FBOs, the private sector and its local communities can provide an immediate capacity boost that the country’s government lacks. First, we need to reinvent the healthcare delivery model from one that expects people to come to the vaccine to one that takes the vaccine to them.

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Hall Render

JANUARY 14, 2022

In the case of the CMS IFR, the government requested dissolution of the stay in effect for that rule in many states to prevent CMS from enforcing its vaccine requirements. Justice Gorsuch noted that the power to mandate vaccines was squarely within the scope of the states’ police powers.

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Florida Health Care Law Firm

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

However, it surprises me when I hear people who work outside the health care arena claim HIPAA protection over all kinds of information – and most recently, their COVID-19 vaccination status. So, can you ask employees about their vaccination status? Those premises will outlast the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

As of today (1 February) the Austrian COVID-19 vaccine mandate has come into force for all adults – which makes Austria the first EU country to introduce such measure. In return, the Austrian government loosened public restrictions. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

The proposed compromise would allow for “the use of patented subject matter required for the production and supply of COVID-19 vaccines without the consent of the right holder to the extent necessary to address the COVID-19 pandemic, in accordance with the provisions of Article 31 of the Agreement, as clarified and waived.”

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

States maintain these obligations even when non-State actors are involved in health care financing, provision, and governance, albeit further normative development in this area is still urgently needed.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. Older and medically vulnerable people who continue to face high risk of COVID-19 illness after vaccination should not be asked to wait in line behind adults who refused vaccines.

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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. Impact of the judgment: what have records disclosed shown?

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

Despite pediatric COVID-19 vaccine availability, many youth remain unvaccinated , and are thus at higher risk of life-altering outcomes as a result of contracting COVID-19. [1]. In this post, I argue that young people should have the opportunity to consent to vaccines. By Victoria Kalumbi.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Moreover, the Principles can equip civil society, jurists, and others with the tools to hold their governments and powerful corporate entities accountable to the standards set by human rights. But the Principles bear relevance and were developed for all levels of governance in mind.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

adults are willing to be vaccinated, and they’re not happy about the process in getting their jab, according to Gallup’s poll taken in the last week of January 2021. The proportion of Americans willing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has steadily grown since October 2020, which fell to a mere 50% of folks keen to get the shot.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 7, 2022

More probably, due to the lack of precise information by the Chinese government on the real extent of the disease outbreak, they opted for a conservative approach, well aware of the economic and political consequences of a PHEIC declaration for the concerned State.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In particular, Principles 6, 7, and 8 focus in detail on what procedural safeguards – applicable to government decisions and policies in public health emergency contexts – should look like in order to facilitate compliance with human rights, as well as to ensure legitimacy and public support on those decisions and policies.

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Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

More than 591 million EU Digital COVID Certificates (EUDCC) have now been generated, according to a European Commission report published today. The certificate, which covers COVID-19 vaccination, test and recovery, aims to facilitate safe travel for citizens in Europe.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One of us (LG) was involved in the drafting of the Siracusa Principles, which have become the chief international instrument governing permissible human rights limitations during national emergencies. Governments should also reach into their diplomatic toolbox to encourage compliance.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 4, 2021

"Lexington Medical Center applied those lessons in agility when, later in the year, we were tasked with providing IT solutions for mobile COVID-19 testing sites, and then mobile COVID-19 vaccination sites," he recalled. We worked closely with the care team to make sure we understood all requirements.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. He has provided technical assistance to governments, investigated public rights in taxpayer-funded technologies, and analyzed neglected legal authorities to increase access to medicines. Zain Rizvi is a research director at Public Citizen.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The research team also pointed to recent warnings from government agencies about the possibility for cyberattacks against the healthcare sector. And this threat is unlikely to abate in the new year, with forecasts predicting telehealth will continue to present security challenges (along with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines ).

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HIPAA Journal

MAY 23, 2022

Turla, aka Venomous Bear/Iron Hunter/KRYPTON/Waterbug, operates under the direction of the FSB and mostly targets industries such as academic, energy, government, military, telecommunications, research, pharmaceutical companies, and foreign embassies, and has been active since at least 2004. Mitigations.

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HIPAA Journal

AUGUST 24, 2023

While at least one Chinese state-sponsored hacking group is known to conduct cyberattacks for financial gain, most groups conduct attacks for espionage purposes and to obtain intellectual property (IP) of interest to the government of the People’s Republic of China, such as IP related to medical technology and medicine.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Jay Nakashima at eHealth Exchange detailed how California’s Cedars-Sinai used FHIR to send adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines to the FDA – a process that replaced manual data entry and faxing. Read more… Technology Is Accelerating Hospital-at-Home Adoption.

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