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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

Bill of Health

Repeatedly, states and hospital systems have considered implementing crisis standards of care, which establish triage protocols for scarce resources. The provision of scarce resources such as intensive care unit (ICU) beds, antivirals, and ventilators during this pandemic has been an ongoing topic of discussion.

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

Health Populi

We demonstrated in the pandemic that we could be agile, reconfiguring hospitals quickly, moving patients and staff because we had to. ” The hospital of the future is not the hospital of 2019. What is the hospital of the future look like? Be agile and flexible. ” Dowling wonders.

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How to Fairly Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapies

Bill of Health

Notably, nursing workforces are aging , and older physicians are especially likely to serve in settings — such as rural areas , where 20% of physicians are 60 or over — where their services are particularly scarce.

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

Health Populi

In the 19th and 20th centuries, segregated black hospitals were emblematic of separate but unequal health care,” begins the editorial introducing an entire issue of JAMA dedicated to racial and ethnic disparities and inequities in medicine and health care, published August 17, 2021.

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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

From consumers’ homes and workplaces and running routes to the research bench, doctor’s offices, and hospital beds, this graphic from the report illustrates scenarios of Apple’s research flows.

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

Health Populi

During the three years prior to her death, she was admitted to the hospital 30 times. 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

hospital emergency rooms with symptoms of COVID-19, a greater number of these patients per capita haven’t been discharged from hospitals. As African-American patients have been admitted to U.S. They’ve passed away. But we must be capable, in the U.S.,

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