Bill of Health

JUNE 29, 2022

But many routine practices — assessing capacity, acquiring informed consent, advance care planning, and allocating resources, for instance — are. And given the importance of these endpoints, it is worth determining whether ethics education improves clinicians’ decision making across these domains.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

By Nina Kohn and Irina D. Manta This month, New York became the latest to join the growing list of states that have ended their requirements for routine masking in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 24, 2022

By Carmel Shachar. As trials stall and the omicron variant surges, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is failing parents by preventing off-label use of our existing COVID-19 vaccines in the under-five set.

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Medisys Compliance

JANUARY 16, 2025

Providers must use HIPAA-compliant telehealth platforms and ensure informed consent is documented in the patients record. Temporary Telehealth Flexibilities: During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE), CMS allowed expanded telehealth coverage for behavioral health services.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 15, 2023

A recent survey showed that almost 1 in 5 Americans now turn to TikTok before their doctor for health advice. By Sarah Gabriele Doctors are now using social media platforms to spread medical knowledge and to interact with the communities that they are actively building.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

By Ashley Shew Far too often, when people write and talk about technology and disability, stories are deeply shaped by ableism. Often when devices are painted as “solving the problem of disability” or “empowering disabled people,” they suggest that being disabled is itself a problem, and that people should try to be as nondisabled as possible.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 11, 2022

Despite its longstanding constitutional right to health, Brazil has a relatively timid epistemic community to advocate suitable laws and principles for individual patient rights. The State has never staged nationwide public debates followed by the creation of specific frameworks to address patient autonomy and informed consent.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 9, 2023

The ED acts as a safety-net for a failing health system, one that places little value on mental health services, either preventative or follow-up. By Zainab Ahmed Psychiatric care in the Emergency Department is all-or-nothing and never enough. Often, legal holds are the only intervention available, and they rarely are therapeutic.

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Compliancy Group

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Why Patients Sign a HIPAA Consent Form No patient should ever have to provide their PHI without fully knowing its potential use and the possible benefits and risks of sharing it. Failure to get informed consent can have dire consequences for your organization. HIPAA Photo Consent Form Not all PHI use is related to treatment.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What about informed consent and other ethical issues? While the current informed consent form used by facilitators does address some aspects of concern ( like the use of touch , 333-333-5040 (9) ), it does not address other aspects like suggestibility or power dynamics within the facilitator/client relationship.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 23, 2023

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) already included “scientific research” as an exception for the requirement of consent from the data subject for secondary uses of sensitive data (e.g. health data). Indeed, Art.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We’ll see many more developments like this one as the health care industry continues to get more serious about its role in climate change, ESG, and public health. On the product front, it was fascinating to see the BlueSeal Mobile system providing Mobile Helium for MR featuring a lighter magnet and 0 helium refill costs.

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AIHC

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Business Associates (non-healthcare organizations) The Center for Disease Control (CDC) provides guidance for non-healthcare workplaces, which would apply to most business associates who have partnered with a health care institution, such as legal or accounting firms; medical billing companies; IT managed service providers, etc.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School , the Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD) , and the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Programme (DICARP) at McGill Law Faculty are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the following digital symposium hosted by Bill (..)

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Bill of Health

APRIL 7, 2022

Through regular contributions to Bill of Health , as well as workshops and other projects, POPLAR affiliated researchers will share their expertise and perspectives on developments in psychedelics law and policy. (Clockwise from top left: Kwasi Adusei, Ismail Lourido Ali, Jonathan Perez-Reyzin, Dustin Marlan.).

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MedTrainer

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Colorado Healthcare Compliance Resources Let’s start with the important state government agencies you’ll need to work with: The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) plays a crucial role in promoting and safeguarding the health and wellbeing of Coloradans.

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AIHC

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This information was published due to the end of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) which began May 12, 2023. The requirement for consent is sometimes paired with other requirement such as the need to ensure the same level of care is delivered via telehealth as would be expected in-person.

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MedTrainer

OCTOBER 4, 2023

State-specific reporting requirements can also extend to disease outbreaks or public health emergencies, to ensure that healthcare facilities promptly report certain conditions to the appropriate state agencies. States may also have unique regulations related to informed consent, end-of-life care, and telemedicine practices.

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MedTrainer

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These agencies help maintain the integrity and quality of healthcare services in Idaho , protecting the public and promoting patient safety. The Act equates virtual care’s standard to in-person care, emphasizing sufficient provider-patient relationships and informed consent.

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Verisys

JANUARY 27, 2022

Clear Communication on Consent and Fees. The APA advises that clients/patients may have varying degrees of technological skills or ability to thoroughly read and understand informed consent and billing. As the pandemic continues, regulations affecting telehealth have changed many times and continue to change.

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HIPAA Journal

JANUARY 16, 2023

It is hoped that, as a tool for public health, AI can be used in the future to predict and track the spread of other infectious diseases by analyzing data from government, healthcare, and other sources. Ethics of AI in Healthcare . These concerns are not unique to the United States nor to the healthcare industry.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Informed Consent and Refusal. To move towards a framework of addressing and limiting harm, health systems and SDOH technology companies must first establish easily understood informed consent and refusal processes for all of the data uses that come from the data collection throughout a SDOH intervention.

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Bill of Health

JULY 14, 2023

The federal government’s commitment to assuring that participants in human subject research provide fully informed consent dates back to the U.S The World Health Organization supports this ban and in particular describes it as making informed consent impossible in the health care setting.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nepal’s National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act does not include a provision for the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples as mandated by the Nepal-ratified United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Nor does the Forest Act 2019 contain provisions to protect the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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Bill of Health

MAY 10, 2022

Taking adoption consent seriously requires considering the lived experiences of women that lead them to consider relinquishment in the first place, and the often-overlooked realities of adoption that must be acknowledged for informed consent to be possible. Seymore is Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2024

Advocates for commercial surrogacy argue that financial incentives alone do not compromise informed consent and in fact, a lack of payment for surrogacy services could be exploitative.

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Bill of Health

AUGUST 29, 2022

By Victoria Kalumbi. 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].

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Bill of Health

APRIL 18, 2023

The enormous ‘data hunger’ of medical AI may also affect medical privacy, and the opaque nature of many AI applications may put existing health practices and other patients’ rights under pressure, such as the provision of information, informed consent, and legal redress.

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Bill of Health

JULY 31, 2024

Haupt Social media is the new public health battleground. A look across these three scenarios vividly illustrates the theoretical and doctrinal weakness of current First Amendment jurisprudence, its ill fit with online speech, and its potentially detrimental effects on public health. by Claudia E.

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SQA

APRIL 30, 2021

generic, biosimilar, or hybrid application), informed consent is irrelevant provided that both applications relate to a medicinal product with the same qualitative and quantitative composition in active substances and the same pharmaceutical form. Under Article 82(1) of Regulation (EC) No.

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SQA

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

ICMRA recognizes that AMR is a complex, multifaceted problem and calls for better coordination across all sectors, including public health, animal health, and the environment, through a ‘One Health’ approach. Tackling AMR is one of ICMRA’s strategic priorities.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Professionals within a professional relationship are subject to a variety of legal constraints, such as informed consent requirements or professional malpractice liability if things go wrong. My story for @dcexaminer on efforts to tame the #covid19 virus: [link]. — Dr. Mehmet Oz (@DrOz) April 3, 2020.

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Hall Render

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

over Claims Practices Where things stand in Central California 1 month after a community hospital’s closure California hospital names Kelly Linden CEO Upcoming California health bills to watch, including a conversation with Rep. million to UMass Memorial Health Care for COVID-19 costs Four Mass. What to know.

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Bill of Health

MAY 25, 2023

Laws requiring mandatory ultrasounds before access to abortions demonstrate how the law can compel physicians to dispense information, ostensibly to protect pregnant persons. These particular regulations are termed ‘speech-and-display’ laws, which generally fall into the category of informed consent laws.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 9, 2022

The first required a woman seeking an abortion to furnish “informed consent” prior to the procedure and stipulated that “she be provided with certain information at least 24 hours before the abortion is performed.” The second commanded that a parent offer informed consent prior to a minor receiving an abortion.

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Kaiser Health News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

He also approved $60 million to help uninsured patients and people from out of state pay for abortions in California, and signed reproductive health care laws, including one protecting doctors who mail abortion pills to other states. California bans short-term health plans. California Newsom became the first U.S.

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Drug & Device Law

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Through the PREP Act, Congress hoped to facilitate the quick deployment of crucial medical resources during public health emergencies, in part by freeing “covered person[s]” from the threat of civil litigation and liability. A Primer on the PREP Act. 247d-6d(a)(1) (emphasis added).

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