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Making International Health Regulations Work: Lessons From The 2014 Ebola Outbreak, Tsung-Ling Lee
Making International Health Regulations Work: Lessons From The 2014 Ebola Outbreak, Tsung-Ling Lee
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Many legal scholars believe that the lack of enforcement mechanisms provided by the International Health Regulations (IHR) in part explains the slow containment of the deadly Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa in 2014. In contrast, some global health practitioners deem funding for global health emergencies as a key remedy to the ineffective international infectious disease control regime. Such belief underpinned the creation of the Pandemic Emergency Facility (PEF), the World Bank's new financing initiative, aiming to finance global disaster response. Some commentators hope that the establishment of the PEF will resuscitate international interest in global health security and …
Instrumental And Transformative Medical Technology, Nicole Huberfeld Professor Of Law
Instrumental And Transformative Medical Technology, Nicole Huberfeld Professor Of Law
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article considers how medical technologies impact universality in health care. The universality principle, as embodied in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), eliminated widespread discriminatory practices and provided financial assistance to those otherwise unable to become insured--a democratizing federal act that was intended to stabilize health care policy nationwide. This Article posits that medical technology, as with all of medicine, can be universalizing or exclusionary and that this status roughly correlates to its being "instrumental technology" or "transformative technology." Instrumental technology acts as a tool of medicine and often serves an existing aspect of health care; in …
Will The Internet Of Things Transform Healthcare?, Nicolas P. Terry, Professor Of Law,
Will The Internet Of Things Transform Healthcare?, Nicolas P. Terry, Professor Of Law,
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Emerging technologies like health apps on mobile computing platforms and wearable devices are believed to have the potential to improve individual and population health. Increasingly, however, attention should extend to a far larger cohort of connected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT), an environment in which devices communicate with each other, health apps, and wearables. The resulting Internet of Health Things promises to do things conventional health providers either cannot do or do them faster and cheaper. First, services are "always on, "providing twenty-four/seven monitoring of the patient or pre-patient. Second, the multiple sensors contained in smartphones or …
Power To The People: Data Citizens In The Age Of Precision Medicine, Barbara J. Evans
Power To The People: Data Citizens In The Age Of Precision Medicine, Barbara J. Evans
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
Twentieth-century bioethics celebrated individual autonomy but framed autonomy largely in terms of an individual's power to make decisions and act alone. The most pressing challenges of big data science in the twenty-first century can only be resolved through collective action and common purpose. This Article surveys some of these challenges and asks how common purpose can ever emerge on the present bioethical and regulatory landscape. The solution may lie in embracing a broader concept of autonomy that empowers individuals to protect their interests by exercising meaningful rights of data citizenship. This Article argues that twentieth-century bioethics was a paternalistic, top-down …
Health Information Ownership: Legal Theories And Policy Implications, Lara Cartwright Smith, Elizabeth Gray, Jane H. Thorpe
Health Information Ownership: Legal Theories And Policy Implications, Lara Cartwright Smith, Elizabeth Gray, Jane H. Thorpe
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Article explores the nature and characteristics of health information that make it subject to federal and state laws and the existing legal framework that confers rights and responsibilities with respect to health information. There are numerous legal and policy considerations surrounding the question of who owns health information, including whether and how to confer specific ownership rights to health information. Ultimately, a legal framework is needed that reflects the rights of a broad group of stakeholders in the health information marketplace, from patients to providers to payers, as well as the public's interest in appropriate sharing of health information.