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A Novel Approach to Crisis Standards of Care

Bill of Health

These contraindications should be crafted by multi-disciplinary associations, including physicians, nursing, palliative care, legal experts and ethicists, rooted in evidence, and designed to advance equity. This approach could rely on data from the best available meta-analyses, disease-specific scoring tools, and expert opinion.

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Caring for Patients with Serious Illness: Insights from Kristofer Smith

Bill of Health

This wonderful and fiercely independent person who never wanted to live in a facility, spent the last year of life in a nursing home. Ultimately, the demands of my great grandmother, as her illnesses progressed, became so much that we couldn’t keep her at home.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

The program will deploy nurses trained in the field of social determinants of health from the AllianceRx Walgreens Prime network, who will reach out to Highmark members that opt-in to the pilot. The nurses will conduct a 13-question SDoH survey and assess risk factors that compromise the good management of patients’ MS conditions.

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

Health Populi

What should doctor’s and nurse’s competencies be ten years from now?” Dowling asked, something I’m charged to think about a lot in my scenario planning work. “What do we mean by ambulatory and outpatient care? What is the doctor of the future?

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From Managing Healthcare Providers’ Costs to “Revolutionizing” Care – Bain Looks at the Short- and Long-Term for Generative AI

Health Populi

Trust is a crucial ingredient in a patient’s health care engagement — especially powerful in her collaboration with physicians, nurses, and pharmacists. Thus, 82% of people do not trust AI tech executives to self-regulate AI.

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

Health Populi

For Black patients, lower utilization of ambulatory care and higher use of inpatient, emergency department, and nursing suggest greater spender downstream that might be prevented by more spending upstream on primary care, prevention, and early detection of disease.

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