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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

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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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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

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According to Karl Ulfers, co-founder and vice president of growth at DUOS , governments offer excellent listings of resources with which care managers and clinicians can address housing, food, transportation, and other SDoH. Dr. Sema Sgaier, founder of Surgo Health, points out that different factors are important for different conditions.