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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

In this case, the government moved to protect the public because a subset of meat packers was putting profit above public health. public outcry caused the government to step in and regulate the industry. Indeed, the imperfection of the program was a motivating factor for me to join the government in 2011.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

Then I transitioned to University of Illinois in 2011 to start a preventive emergency medicine program. Are views changing on our expensive system of providing healthcare services vs. funding social programs and public health projects that might reduce the need for them? Despite that, we still had good outcomes.