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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

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AI tools can bring transformative changes that enhance the delivery of care and improve health outcomes.” Then there is technology: “There is a need for AI solutions to recognize diversity,” the report asserts. “AI

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AI is the New Health Literacy Challenge for Patients and the Health/Care Industry

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This is an argument for doctors and patients to both have a say in shaping GenAI’s role in clinical settings, PYMNTS Intelligence and AI-ID recommend due to “fear of the unknown” felt by both sides of the shared decision-making relationship. In consumer interviews conducted in December 2022, Pew found that 60% of U.S.

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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. health care.

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Why CTA’s Shepherding AI Is Important for Re-Imagining Healthcare

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That personal information can get mashed up and analyzed along with data from our electronic health records and health insurance claims to create a fuller picture of us… helpful in personalizing medical treatments and health regimens that are unique to us.

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

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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. Existing vulnerabilities enable those climate-related risks to more negatively impact health outcomes.

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The Unsurprising Surprise of Social Determinants in COVID-19 Mortality

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Anthony Iton wrote back in 2008 when he was health director of Alameda County, California. Dr. Iton may have been the first person to coin the phrase about our ZIP codes pre-determining our health outcomes. health care system and how scarce resources get allocated to medical care and social care.

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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. agency responsible for monitoring claims and the use of personal data out-of-health-context.

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