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The Light Collective amplifies its call for patient data rights

Healthcare It News

The advocacy group, which was formed in 2019 "to advance the collective rights, interests and voices of patient communities in health tech," says it wants to make the general public more aware of abuses in health data handling.

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Trying and Sentencing Youth As Adults: Key Takeaways from Recent Petrie-Flom Center Event

Bill of Health

There are expert and health organizations like the World Health Organization, NIH, United Nations who all acknowledge that there’s continued maturity and development that extends into the 20s and even our laws in this country recognize extended maturation in the early 20s with the extended age for drinking and foster care,” Casey said.

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Several EU nations set to mandate vaccination for COVID passes

Healthcare It News

Sweden also brought in new legislation in December requiring citizens to have a COVID passport at all events with more than 100 people. Europe has been recording record numbers of COVID infections with 5,676,048 new cases and 41,525 deaths reported over the last seven days, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) (5 Jan).

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DHAGE identifies digital inclusion as key goal in building a resilient society

Healthcare It News

DHAGE called upon organisations such as the European Union, the World Health Organisation and the OECD to set up and fund an initiative for promoting digital inclusion. An upskilling of the workforce could assist in the rolling out and implementation of new digital tools and technology. This would create a greater knowledge database.

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Tufts Medical Center to pilot nutrition screening in EHR

Healthcare It News

Proponents say food-based interventions could address one aspect of social determinants of health and improve health equity while they address chronic diseases. At the international level, the World Health Organization focuses on food security and other challenges to address global health equity.

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What the New York City Marathon Can Teach Us About Equitable Access to Vaccines

Bill of Health

In imagining how such a reconciliation might work, the article looks at a current embodiment of such a reconciliatory scheme: the allocation of participation slots at a highly subscribed event, the New York City Marathon. Yes, the analogy has an apples-and-oranges quality to it. working a fluid station at a race). something else?)

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Trust in Health Care 5 Years After COVID Began – an Edelman Trust Barometer Update

Health Populi

On March 11, 2020, The World Health Organization announced that the coronavirus was deemed a pandemic. ” Five years later, Edelman has fielded a survey to determine what some 4,000 health citizens living in 4 countries (Brazil, India, the UK, and the U.S.) health system, and 43% trust pharma companies.