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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

Dowling keynoted on the theme of “Leading for the Future,” sharing his lessons learned during COVID-19. He kicked off his lessons focusing in on a theme that would resonate with the HIMSS audience: “COVID changed our relationship with technology forever.”. Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S.,

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Health Populi’s Hot Points: By June 2020, it became clear to the Centers for Disease Control that COVID-19 had been exacting a tougher toll on the lives of people of color in the U.S. health care.

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 3 of 5 – Apple as “Intelligent Health Guardian”

Jane Sarashon

cycle tracking, period prediction), heart health, mobility, hearing health, COVID-19 related factors, safety (like emergency SOS), medication scheduling and reminding, and research apps connecting consumers to studies and researchers.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

Then COVID-19 joined the top-10 list of killers in the U.S. But there are also climate-related risks to health care institutions — think Hurricane Katrina and the images of patients having to be air-lifted out of urban New Orleans hospitals and nursing homes.

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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

Health Populi

Covid-19 exposes America’s racial health gap,” asserts The Economist , the weekly news magazine based in London, UK, in an advanced essay dated 11 April 2020. State-level data revealed that in Louisiana, black people comprised 70% of COVID-19 deaths even though they are only 32% of the state’s population.

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In the US COVID-19 Pandemic, A Tension Between the Fiscal and the Physical

Health Populi

The first half of the title is, Mitigating the COVID Economic Crisis. . curve illustrating the trajectory of the number of days since the 100th COVID-19 case shows a steeper incline than any other nation’s. For COVID-19, this is a matter of what for oncology, analysts have termed “financial toxicity.”

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The 2021 Shkreli Awards: Lown Institute Counts Down the Top 10 Healthcare Industry Abuses in the Coronavirus Pandemic

Health Populi

Early in the pandemic, many hospitals around the country took various punitive actions against staff who spoke out about safety issues on the front line of caring for patients diagnosed with COVID-19. 10 – Medical staffing companies cut doctors’ pay while spending millions on political ads. #9- government.