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How the Life Sciences Industry Can Boost Diversity and Inclusion Efforts

HIT Consultant

Although it is well established that diversity improves outcomes and drives excellence, implementing diversity lags behind in many industries, including life sciences and healthcare. population but only about 6% of practicing physicians, and only 9% of nurses are Latino, Black or Native American. About Ariel Katz .

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. Chief Medical Information Officer, Urban Health Plan.

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

Health Populi

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. who had received 1 or more doses of COVID-19 vaccines by race/ethnicity were: 66% of White, non-Hispanic people (60% of U.S. of Hispanic and LatinX people (19% of U.S. The percentages of people in the U.S.

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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

All those digital tools generate data, which must flow into some version of a patient health record to ensure the data are collected, safely stored, and accessible for diagnosis and sound action-making and -taking. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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

Health Populi

The authors suggest that investing more in prevention and health promotion for these groups could improve health outcomes and get to more equitable spending levels. than on white people.

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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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Health Provider News – November 4, 2022

Hall Render

CMS gives nursing homes a longer leash on staff COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Alaska health officials say they’re tracking a modest rise in RSV, but it’s nothing like the Lower 48. In Bethel, a homegrown solution to the state’s nursing shortage. CMS bumps ASC payments to 3.8