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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

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Riffing on his great book, Deep Medicine: How AI Can Humanize Health Care , Eric started his talk donning my own professional hat as a heath economist, sharing data about America’s high health care spending with low ROI yield. What can going deep in medicine do for health systems, health care, doctors and patients?

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

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The coronavirus pandemic has changed so many aspects of American health care for so many people, including doctors. Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

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For an in-depth look into this phenomenon, see my report, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Health Information is Getting Tracked and Used, written for the California Healthcare Foundation. doctors have to say about health disparities in JAMA. Finally, read what U.S. s, birthday. .