Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

On March 15, 2022, STAT published text of a proposed compromise at the World Trade Organization (WTO) to temporarily relax global standards for intellectual property for COVID-19. In short, the compromise only waives a single 20-word paragraph in one article: the one dealing with exports under a non-voluntary authorization.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

Vaccines are no longer our only medical intervention for preventing severe COVID-19. The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. The post How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies appeared first on Bill of Health.

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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. The inadequacy of Siracusa in the the context of public health emergencies Then came COVID-19.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Nevertheless, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic caused a major panic in the country’s legal system and judiciary. Additionally, the Government declared COVID-19 a “ formidable disease ” under the Public Health Act on April 1, 2020.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The NHS COVID Pass is now accepted as equivalent in status to the European Union Digital COVID Certificate (EUDCC). Under an agreement with the European Commission on 29 October, UK citizens can now digitally verify their vaccination status using the EUDCC gateway. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER CONTEXT.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 30, 2022

Department of Defense (DoD) put in place requirements for service members to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Litigation has since ensued over the military branches’ restrictive approach to religious exemptions to vaccination. The Navy, so far, has granted only one religious exemption to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

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Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The UK government has launched a “far-reaching review” into the impact of potential bias in the design and use of medical devices. Race Equality Foundation CEO Jabeer Butt welcomed the review, but said it was not enough to explain the disproportionate deaths of Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people from COVID-19.

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Mobi Health News

JULY 22, 2021

The state government of Victoria was found to be the biggest COVID-19-related ad spender during the pandemic.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, now entering its fourth year in 2023, legislators, executives, and judges at every level of government have sought measures to derail efficacious public health interventions. And most relate solely to COVID-19 interventions, which sunset permanently as states withdraw their emergencies.

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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

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. In a case against the J.M.

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Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The Indian government is upgrading its COVID-19 vaccination platform, CoWIN, to digitally track people's vaccination status against common preventable diseases, including measles, rubella and COVID-19. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals.

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HIPAA Journal

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The COVID-19 vaccination statuses of approximately 500,000 Department of Veterans Affairs employees have been impermissibly disclosed. The spreadsheet also included details of claimed religious and medical exceptions to COVID-19 vaccination.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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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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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 12, 2021

The Australian government has set aside A$106 million ($76 million) over four years to support what it calls "permanent" telehealth, which will ensure flexibility in healthcare delivery and continuous health consultations via phone or online. WHY IT MATTERS. Around 89,000 providers are now using telehealth services. million ($22.8

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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

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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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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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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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. This was witnessed in the early stages of COVID-19, when Vietnam and Taiwan decided to adopt stringent measures well before the end of January. By Ilja Richard Pavone.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By Anita Gholami The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which brings together parliamentarians from 46 member States, has been a vigilant guardian of respect for the European Convention on Human Rights and other international standards throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so.

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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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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By December 2020, the world had astonishingly powerful tools against COVID-19. New mRNA vaccines, underpinned by decades of public investment , had been authorized by global regulators. Monopoly control presents profound questions for public health governance. By Zain Rizvi. reached the one million death mark.

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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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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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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified this legal challenge and highlighted the need to treat liability as a key legal preparedness issue. Widespread international health emergencies, and particularly pandemics, can lead to a major imbalance of negotiating power between manufacturers and governments. Conclusion.

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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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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the accompanying infodemic gained visibility through the widespread use of digital resources, platforms and tools to support a range of social interactions, activities, and pandemic countermeasures.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 22, 2021

the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed disparities in housing, food, and job security, and the role that one’s ZIP code and social determinants play in health outcomes. But these have disproportionately hit non-white people, who are nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 than white Americans. In the U.S.,

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 28, 2021

” As we enter Year 3 of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and civic chasms and economic uncertainty (inflation, health care costs, Great Resignations), I took this page out of Dr, Seuss in my last monthly post for Medecision’s Liberate Health blog. But the Seussblog notes that the book’s message, “is a great one.

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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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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 1, 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, and as we face the reality that future pandemics are coming (or have already begun ), it’s a fitting time for the United States to take stock of how the carceral system has exacerbated the harms of COVID-19, and for policymakers to seriously consider what can and should be done differently going forward.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 12, 2023

During the COVID-19 pandemic they cross referenced vaccination rates with the CDC’s social vulnerability index and plotted the results using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. 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.

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