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How Digital Health Tools Can Help Promote Vaccine Adherence

HIT Consultant

Kate Behan, MD, FACP, Chief Medical Officer, Arcadia A so-called “tripledemic” — the convergence of flu, RSV and COVID-19 — led to significant morbidity and mortality, and it also forced the cancellation or delay of numerous medical procedures at overwhelmed health systems.

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Convenient Scapegoat: Why Hesitancy is Not the Cause of Low Vaccination Rates in Africa

HIT Consultant

Partnerships and innovation are the only ways Africa can achieve superior health outcome results with markedly fewer resources. Extensive education and mobilization was done through trusted local leaders and intermediaries in each community prior to the arrival of the actual vaccines.

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Scarcity Is Not an Excuse to Discriminate: Age and Disability in Health Care Rationing

Bill of Health

The Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies show that public health and human rights protected in international treaties are not exclusive nor necessarily in tension. On the contrary, human rights-compliant responses lead to better public health outcomes.

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Indian doctors group taps Eka Care for online healthcare platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The app also stores health records and does health assessments for patients; Indians can also download their COVID-19 vaccination certificates through the app. Currently, Eka Care has over 350,000 app users. The app is available on both iOS and Android devices and supports 12 languages. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

With that in mind, PwC found that providers plan to increase digital health investments (which is a cost-increasing factor in and of itself) across a landscape of tools focused on improving relationships with consumers and supporting health outcomes.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan. As CMIO of Urban Health Plan, a Bronx-based Federally-Qualified Health Center, Connelly-Flores has worked to boost COVID-19 vaccination rates via texting campaigns, online vaccine registration and other patient engagement projects focused on one of the areas in the U.S.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

Because of this, many states fell back to public order policing of the pandemic and/or states of emergencies, using security tactics, techniques, and legislation as a public health tool to the obvious detriment to both human rights and public health outcomes.