Lexology (30.10.2017) Healthcare technology is at a pivotal moment in its development. The healthcare industry is primed to take advantage of the innovative tools that technology can provide and governments are positive as to the potential healthcare cost savings that are expected to follow. Regulators around the world are increasingly starting to acknowledge that conventional approaches to regulation may act as an impediment to digital innovation in healthcare and are looking to modernise health regulation.

Bloomberg (23.10.2017) U.S. life expectancy is declining, new calculations show. The U.S. retirement age is rising, as the government pushes it higher and workers stay in careers longer.

The Exponent Telegram (17.10.2017) Preventing and understanding respiratory diseases, especially those faced by coal miners, is one of the core missions of the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health, Respiratory Health facility in Morgantown. A part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NIOSH has facilities across the country. The one in Morgantown, next door to Ruby Memorial Hospital, opened in 1996. One of the facility’s four divisions is dedicated to respiratory health research and implementing new discoveries to the workplace.

Le Temps (08.10.2017) L’augmentation des coûts de la santé a un effet sur les équilibre économiques et sociaux. Si la proportion du PIB dédiée à la santé augmente fortement (c’est-à-dire plus que la moyenne des autres secteurs) alors c’est forcément au détriment des autres secteurs: nutrition, logement, éducation, transport, loisirs, etc.

news-medical (25.09.2017) Sleep disorders and sleep deficiency are hidden costs that affect employers across America. Seventy percent of Americans admit that they routinely get insufficient sleep, and 30 percent of U.S. workers and 44 percent of night shift workers report sleeping less than six hours per night. In addition, an estimated 50-70 million people have a sleep disorder, often undiagnosed. Costs attributable to sleep deficiency in the U.S. was estimated to exceed $410 billion in 2015, equivalent to 2.28 percent of the gross domestic product.

The Guardian (15.09.2017) Speaking to opponents of universal healthcare in the US today is much like speaking to a moon-landing denier or any other conspiracy theorist – they insist on arguing impossibility in the face of proven reality.

El Tiempo Latino (19.08.2017) La atención médica con un pagador único sigue siendo una idea controversial en los Estados Unidos, pero la gran mayoría de los médicos está comenzando a apoyarla, según revela una nueva encuesta.

El País (26.07.2017) Vuelta a empezar. Donald Trump no está dispuesto a dar su brazo a torcer. Tras el fracaso de la semana pasada, el presidente logró el martes un paso clave en la liquidación del Obamacare, el sistema sanitario que desde su implantación en 2010 ha dado cobertura a 20 millones de ciudadanos. En una tensa sesión en el Senado, los conservadores, con el voto de calidad del vicepresidente Mike Pence, presidente de la Cámara, aprobaron abrir el debate de la reforma sanitaria.

The Guardian (25.07.2017) As Republicans decide what to do with the current healthcare policy, nearly 26 million Americans remain without insurance – and that number could soon rise

El Nuevo Día (05.08.2017) El gobernador de Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, convirtió hoy con su firma en ley seis proyectos dirigidos a mejorar el acceso a los servicios de salud.