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TechREG® Chronicle – Standardization

TechREG Chronicle® December 2025

Dear Readers,   This edition of the Chronicle surveys a fast-shifting landscape in global standard-setting and technology governance. To open, Richard S. Taffet urges regulators to finally move beyond the endless debates over standard-essential patent (“SEP”) licensing and focus instead on strengthening the voluntary, private-sector-led standards ecosystem. Drawing on the...

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July

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June

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May

As health systems evolve beyond purely clinical data toward richer, more contextualized information environments, the integration of SDoH into AI systems raises a central tension: the same data that can improve equity and care delivery can also encode and obscure discrimination. The contributions in this issue begin to map that terrain.


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