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OCTOBER 20, 2023

According to a study in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society , non-fatal falls cost an estimated $50 billion in medical expenses, while fatal falls account for an estimated $754 million. It is also an expensive problem.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Without adequate guidance for how to comply with human rights in the context of public health emergencies, the authors therefore noted that States commonly “exceeded permissible derogations from the ICCPR” and faced “little accountability for their actions whether on domestic or international levels.” Ahmed et al.

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These might include the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Acts (HIPAA) privacy and security rules, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Regulations, the International Medical Device Regulators Forum’s ( IMDRF ) framework for risk categorization, and international standards like ISO 13485 and the IEC 60601 series.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

Accountability mechanisms are also imperative to ensure the facility’s effective functioning. These reform measures for reshaping COVAX must be taken into account by a pandemic treaty to ensure a sustainable global supply of vaccines during future pandemics. Decolonizing starts with vaccines.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics (PFC) seeks an experienced, dynamic, passionate, and flexible Communications Manager to support, promote, and creatively amplify the work of PFC with the overall goal of raising its profile and advancing its mission. Come work with us!

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APRIL 4, 2024

The main federal health privacy law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) applies only to “covered entities” like health insurers, claims- processing clearinghouses, and health care providers and their business associates, and only to a subset of protected health care information.

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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. The current reforms of global health law — including amendments to the IHR and negotiations for a new pandemic accord — are an immediate entry point.

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APRIL 26, 2022

To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. By James R. A full video of the event is available below.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

To illustrate the issue, consider that the Privacy Rule of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) expressly covers genetic information as a form of health data. The innovation-security tradeoff is a familiar trope in biotechnology, but the main character of the direct-to-consumer tissue-based service story is less so.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Performance times are not taken into account. can be discussed at a greater level of generality prior to the onset of a pandemic or epidemic, and then fine-tuned and agreed upon at the beginning of the event, in a way that takes into account the specific pathogen and how it presents under specific circumstances.

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HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2023

Additionally, if you are able to put money into a Health Savings Account (HSA) or a Flexible Spending Account (FSA), those are some tax-advantaged ways to save for healthcare expenses. Instead, it’s about allocating your money in a way that can help alleviate financial stress in the short and long term.

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OCTOBER 22, 2021

Hawkes, who joined Caravan Health in 2017, will continue his role as the head of product, infrastructure, and info-security while adding data and analytics along with accountable care organization (ACO) production information and strategic planning and leadership. Professor Joe Kvedar . to the company’s Scientific Advisory Board.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

Third, the policy prescriptions intended to safeguard the transparency and accountability of public-private investments are themselves deeply embedded in the logics of racial capitalism. Alicia Ely Yamin J.D.,

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

As he recounts his experience as an ODAC member, Sekeres skillfully weaves in historical references to various regulatory failures, including poisoned vaccines, opioid deaths, thalidomide-induced birth defects, and the woefully inadequate response to HIV/AIDS, which shaped the role of the FDA since its inception in 1930.

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JUNE 12, 2023

” Next Steps and Stakeholder Engagement In addition to soliciting feedback on the above-mentioned topics, the discussion paper notes that FDA is planning to host a workshop with stakeholders to provide an opportunity for further engagement.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Whether we are understood as characters, as therapy clients, or even as data, there’s something wonky in how disability is portrayed — something that doesn’t fully account for us or do anything to reckon with a history of disability that has marginalized and othered us, made our lives seem lesser or strange.

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APRIL 18, 2023

The Convention also equips patients with the right to redress for harm, requiring robust frameworks for accountability and liability — a much-needed and currently absent solution for medical AI causing harm.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

The lawsuits, arising from the desire to hold platforms accountable for exploiting children’s susceptibility to rewarding stimuli during development, present a novel theory of liability based solely on an algorithm’s ability to cause addiction rather than adverse mental health outcomes.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The broad provisions appear to account for different circumstances. However, against the context of the difficulties that some marginalized populations face in accessing fertility treatment, and health care more broadly, this law does not go far enough.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The EO lists biotechnology on its list of examples of “pressing security risks,” and the Secretary of Commerce is charged with enforcing detailed reporting requirements for AI use (with guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology) in developing biological outputs that could create security risks.

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Recently, researchers have considered introducing the Body Roundness Index (BRI) which takes height and waist circumference into account without weight. Her research interests include genetics, environmental health sciences, novel biotechnologies, and the FDA regulatory process.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

At the global level, in 2016, Ban Ki Moon, then-UN Secretary General appointed me, as one of ten international experts, to the UN Independent Accountability Panel for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health in the Sustainable Development Goals (2016-2020). Alicia Ely Yamin J.D. 1991), M.P.H. 1996), Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Their growing prevalence notwithstanding, policies fail to take these families into account, opting instead for a benefit-by-benefit recognition through court decisions, resulting in a patchwork of rights and legal instability.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

On my account, the only plausible justification for reasonable adjustments in the workplace has to do with fair equality of opportunity and gender equality.

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APRIL 7, 2024

A Technology Assessment from the Government Accountability Office identified several areas for policy development with therapies like Amtagvi and even cell-based tools like organoids.

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MAY 20, 2024

The EU’s AI Act sets rigorous standards for high-risk AI systems, emphasizing robust data quality, detailed record-keeping, and clear user information to ensure transparency and accountability. These reforms streamline liability claims and establish clearer accountability for AI-generated issues.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

However, the ends do not justify the means in this case; likening frozen embryos to children is not a legally sound mechanism to hold fertility clinics accountable for negligently storing embryos.

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JUNE 18, 2024

As Price and Cohen have pointed out, entities subject to federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requirements represent just the tip of the informational iceberg. Collaborative health has three core principles: shared information, shared engagement, and shared accountability.

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JULY 28, 2022

We hosted a series of workshops with choice of law experts and research law and ethics experts to identify factors that are most crucial to account for in a future choice of law precision medicine research framework. Our experts identified factors that need to be accounted for in a future choice of law framework.

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