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The Light Collective amplifies its call for patient data rights

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In its current state, the bill lacks protections for data not covered by HIPAA, including personal health records, de-identified data and health data shared by patient groups on social media platforms such as Facebook, they argue.

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No Take-Backs: Moderna’s Attempt to Renege on its Vaccine Patent Pledge

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government funding, announced that it felt “a special obligation … to use our resources to bring this pandemic to an end as quickly as possible.” Licensing structures like this go back at least to World War II, when the U.S. By Jorge L. Moderna’s Pledge. Updating” the Pledge. From 2020 to 2022, the U.S. Pfizer made such a vaccine.

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Experts showcase digital health solutions that help tackle COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Roger Lim, Dutch government, said principles of privacy and data minimisation were central to building the national contact tracing app: “We opened transparent processes on the technical choices made, because it’s essential to build trust for people to use this app. ON THE RECORD.

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

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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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COVID-19 and the future of care delivery

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The message that adhering to this request, and using other tools to communicate, to help to protect our health and care systems has been understood and accepted by the vast majority of citizens. In March 2020, the Scottish Government produced advice and guidance on Information Governance to support the safe deployment of telehealth.

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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In this session "Cross-Border Collaborations: Improving Digital Health" (20 November, 13:00 - 13:50), speakers from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and beyond will share concrete examples of how governments and healthcare organisations are successfully collaborating across borders to implement various digital health initiatives.

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COP29 and the UNFCCC’s Health Turn: Progress or Peril?

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But the disappointment surrounding financing outcomes was merely a symptom of deeper power imbalances, what critical legal scholar Martti Koskenniemi describes as the “structural biases” of global governance institutions. Yet this progress was not abstracted from the structural bias shaping the broader climate governance regime.

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