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How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

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Care managers and social workers, working within accountable care organizations, and physician provider networks now incorporate a short series of SDOH interview questions with patients identified as high-risk for poor healthcare outcomes or unnecessary future healthcare expenditures.

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When Clinical Trials Meet Patents: Finding Balance in Law

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Salix Pharmaceuticals v. Norwich and Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. Greater transparency is indeed possibleand beneficialso long as policymakers account for the unintended IP-related consequences of routine clinical trial data postings. Similarly, in Vanda Pharmaceuticals v. In the U.S., For the U.S. For the U.S.

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Precision Medicine 2.0: How AI-Driven Insights Are Changing Healthcare for the Better

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Personalized Treatment Plans Traditional treatments often rely on standardized protocols that fail to account for the unique characteristics of individual patients. Physicians can then intervene earlier with preventive measures, improving patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.

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5 Key Challenges Preventing Innovation in Digital Health

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These demographic trends are causing shifts within the healthcare sector and resulting in increased expenditure associated with the costs of treatment and prevention in old age. Both a lack of clinical engagement and inadequate resources are two often-cited areas that prevent better integration of otherwise promising digital solutions.

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COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

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However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. Public health emergencies aren’t entirely preventable. Emergencies will happen. But when they do, responses that uphold human rights need to be the norm.

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Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity

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The goal of such a legal instrument is to enhance the world’s capacity to predict, prevent, detect, assess, and respond to future disease outbreaks. Accountability mechanisms are also imperative to ensure the facility’s effective functioning. This treaty cannot become another agent of the perpetuation of global health’s coloniality.

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Is making mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases profitable?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The figure below shows that as the Delta and Omicron variants spread in the fall of 2021, COVID-19 vaccines prevented significant number of deaths according to Vox. Despite these positive impacts, a number of political commentators have accused pharmaceutical companies of profiteering. A study by Ahuja et al. A study by Ahuja et al.