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The Unequal Impact of COVID-19 In Minority Communitities

Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 28, 2021

From different household makeups and risk factors to varying engagement preferences, that diversity also impacts health outcomes—a reality laid […]. The article The Unequal Impact of COVID-19 In Minority Communitities appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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

Health Populi

APRIL 27, 2021

Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. 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. In the U.S.,

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The rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MAY 20, 2020

These will aid greatly in COVID-19 diagnosis, clinical decision making and managing manpower and hospital beds’ capacity. “Much of the COVID-19 conversation has focused on the lack of ventilators. Meeting the increased demand for professional healthcare products and solutions.

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Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Mitchell is quoted in the story, New data says more communities built their own broadband because of COVID published in Motherboard on 10th September 2021, an important report written by Karl Bode. The post Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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Remote pulse oximetry monitoring could help spot signs of deterioration in COVID-19 patients

Mobi Health News

MARCH 29, 2022

A systematic review published in the Lancet found that RPM for COVID-19 patients could help triage a patient's condition, but did not necessarily link to a better health outcome.

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Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

" When the pandemic hit, University Hospitals' use of automation to manage care for people with chronic conditions prompted it to consider: How could it leverage automation as a patient-facing symptom-checker for COVID-19? " The chats have helped improve care for patients with chronic disease.

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The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem

Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most important lessons from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic needs to be about health surveillance of marginalized health populations — indeed, “who counts depends on who is counted.”. This data gap had serious and sometimes fatal implications for people with IDD during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Stanford Medicine Taps Komodo Health Platform to Study COVID-19 Ripple Effects

HIT Consultant

AUGUST 4, 2022

What You Should Know: – Today, Komodo Health announced that its platform will be used in studies led by Stanford Medicine focused on the short- and long-term health impacts of COVID-19.

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Penn Medicine gets $2.5M to study RPM's effect on COVID-19 disparities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Penn Medicine is getting new money to assess how its COVID Watch remote patient monitoring program is serving its patients, particularly those in Black and Latinx communities. It will also study whether using connected pulse oximeters in tandem with the text check-ins is improving outcomes. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Under-investment in social determinants of health are major drivers of inequitable health outcomes in the United States. health system continue to exacerbate poor health and disparities. COVID-19 and the U.S. COVID-19 and the U.S. Ultimately, COVID-19 caused an unprecedented loss in U.S.

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How AI and machine learning can predict illness and boost health equity

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

seeks to put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rearview mirror, many who survive the initial illness suffer debilitating long-term health impacts, especially those with underlying health conditions. The COVID-19 Research Database features a wide array of data about most of the U.S. Even as the U.S.

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How QHINs Can Relieve Inequity in Interoperability

HealthIT Answers

APRIL 29, 2024

By John Blair MD - In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American healthcare system began a long-overdue reckoning with the social and racial inequities that have traditionally plagued the nation and generated significant disparities in health outcomes.

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CDC Awards Truveta Real-World Data Contract to Study COVID, Maternal Health, Pediatric Care

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 23, 2024

. – This collaboration will leverage Truveta’s vast repository of real-world healthcare data to empower CDC researchers in tackling pressing public health challenges, including COVID-19 , maternal health, and pediatric care. ”

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes. Crucially, the crisis of sleep deprivation among incarcerated populations is not wholly divorced from the present COVID-19 threat facing correctional systems.

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Mount Sinai-linked computer pads keep patients at home during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has had a serious challenge throughout 2020: to keep in touch with patients who do not have COVID-19 during the pandemic. Impact on health outcomes: Mount Sinai plans to ask providers to try to help it gain insight into actual impact. THE PROBLEM. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

Health Populi

JULY 13, 2020

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic has also taught clinicians and health care administrators about the value of data at the ready.

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The Future of Personalized Patient Engagement: Driving Optimal Population Health Outcomes

Healthcare IT Today

JULY 2, 2020

The stark reality is that healthcare organizations are being required to do more with less and this has been exacerbated by COVID-19. While technology certainly hasn’t solved all our problems, one thing technology has provided healthcare is the opportunity to really personalize patient engagement at scale.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite these experiences, Kenya failed take a human rights-based approach to responding to COVID-19, as was also the case in many other countries. Deepening this challenge, the enactment of new legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic — and especially in its early stages — was near impossible.

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TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Health Populi

MAY 7, 2020

Total jobs lost in the COVID-19 pandemic, starting from the utterance of the “P” word, has been in the I.S. TransUnion has been tracking consumer-level effects on a weekly basis, and today in Health Populi with 3 mm+ claims filed for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, I wanted to share TU’s latest analysis of U.S.

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Roundup: Latrobe Regional Hospital turns to VR training and more briefs

Healthcare It News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Coding issue leads to COVID-19 hospitalisations undercount in NZ. The New Zealand Ministry of Health has identified a coding issue which resulted in an undercount of recorded COVID-19 hospitalisations. NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard said that having this free online toolkit "can be lifesaving."

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Combating patient loneliness through conversational AI

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

With disinformation and confusion about COVID-19 on the rise, effective patient engagement is taking on an even greater role. Studies have shown that engaged patients show improved health outcomes and that effective tools can enhance service delivery. But it's not always simply a question of communicating more.

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Overcoming Ripple Effects of COVID-19 to Boost Patient Outcomes: 3 Insights

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Fear of COVID-19 exposure isn’t the only thing holding patients back from seeking needed care during the pandemic. So are the complexities of navigating life after COVID-19—and it’s a struggle that physicians, who are overworked and burned out, can relate to as well.

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Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19

HIT Consultant

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. – Evusheld is a preventive medication meant to be given before exposure to COVID-19. Some experts believe we are on the cusp of entering the endemic stage of COVID-19. Joe Nicholson, Chief Medical Officer at CareAllies.

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Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19

HIT Consultant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. – Evusheld is a preventive medication meant to be given before exposure to COVID-19. Some experts believe we are on the cusp of entering the endemic stage of COVID-19. Joe Nicholson, Chief Medical Officer at CareAllies.

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Research reveals people’s mental health is negatively impacted by COVID-19

Mobi Health News

JUNE 17, 2020

New research out of Australia published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research indicates that individuals living during the coronavirus pandemic had significantly worse mental health outcomes than their peers measured before the pandemic.

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How to fight back against public health mis- and disinformation

Healthcare It News

MARCH 2, 2022

One of the lasting lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is the insidious and corrosive power of mis- and disinformation to undermine public health efforts. Fraud and the Gates foundation stand to make billions from a forced COVID vaccine!" " "Dr. When we developed the playbook, we were doing two things.

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The Public Health Case Against Gas Appliances

Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2023

There is no shortage of data demonstrating that low income and minoritized individuals suffer disparate health outcomes in the United States. They also know that exposure to such indoor air pollution increases the risk of and exacerbates asthma-related health outcomes and other concerning respiratory conditions in children.

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Avoid losing 55% of your patients to poor digital communication

Healthcare It News

APRIL 7, 2023

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the evolved digital consumer, healthcare is also embracing digital transformation. Bandwidth’s research reflects this trend: When asked whether COVID-19 changed their expectations of healthcare, more than 80% of respondents said yes.

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Chatbots and related automation can ease staffing shortages, triage patients

Healthcare It News

APRIL 21, 2022

Now, as the pressures of delivering care during the pandemic prompt one out of five healthcare workers to leave the profession – and with primary care physician retirement rates set to increase dramatically by 2026 – the future of care delivery, patient experience and health outcomes will increasingly depend on automated support.

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U.S. lawmakers reintroduce House bill safeguarding access to telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 25, 2021

representatives has reintroduced a bill aimed at expanding access to telehealth beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. The Protecting Access to Post-COVID-19 Telehealth Act of 2021 legislation was introduced this past week by Rep. A bipartisan group of U.S. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., cosponsored by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt.,

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Heart Disease: Still the Silent Killer Despite Prevention Options

HIT Consultant

APRIL 1, 2024

John Auerbach, SVP Federal Health, ICF Given the attention paid to the devastating impact of COVID-19, one might assume it was the leading cause of death in the US. million Americans died of COVID in the last 4 years – heart disease remains the largest cause of death and by a landslide.

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Digital Therapeutics Alliance applauds bill to guide public Rx coverage

Healthcare It News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The Medicaid and CHIP Access to Prescription Digital Therapeutics Act seeks to expand care options that can help improve health outcomes and quality of life for those facing barriers to healthcare. The Digital Therapeutics Alliance this week encouraged legislators to support its efforts to broaden access to DTx. WHY IT MATTERS.

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The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

Health Populi

JUNE 23, 2023

A critical insight that’s quite clear from this chart from the report is that deaths from preventable and treatable causes substantially rose especially in certain states between 2019 and 2021 in the thick of the COVID-19 pandemic. This domain encompasses health outcomes and access.

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5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era

HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2022

. – This survey of 301 public health officials found that while slightly more than one in two (52%) are optimistic about what data can achieve for their communities, the rate of digital transformation remains uneven, and organizations face significant barriers to change. Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19.

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How Digital Health Tools Can Help Promote Vaccine Adherence

HIT Consultant

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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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“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Health Populi

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Trust, or really lack thereof, is a killer app for people’s coronavirus health outcomes. That is the through-line found in a very deep dive into 177 countries’ health data published in The Lancet in a research article on pandemic preparedness and COVID-19. The graph illustrates where the U.S.

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Majority of people open to using telehealth for sleep concerns

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 11, 2021

Nearly three-quarters of respondents said they'd experienced new sleep challenges since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, with women reporting more sleep struggles than men. The survey examined the attitudes, perceptions and behaviors of 13,000 adults in 13 countries around sleep. Healthcare Everywhere, Every Day.

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Elevating Healthcare Through Risk Stratification: Lessons from North Carolina’s Value-Based Initiatives

HIT Consultant

JANUARY 31, 2024

This significant shift, which places a premium on patient health outcomes, diverges from the traditional fee-for-service approach. The aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic has mainly catalyzed the adoption of VBC models, highlighting the importance of care quality and effectiveness rather than the sheer volume of services.

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The International Weaponization of Health Data

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

On the one hand, the international sharing of health-related data sets has paved the way for important advances such as mapping the human genome , tracking global health outcomes , and fighting the rise of multidrug-resistant superbugs. citizens’ health data with China.

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South Australia starts 24/7 remote rural health monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

According to a media release, this new service is for patients at risk of hospitalisation, including those with heart and respiratory disease and infections; aged care residents; and COVID-19 patients with chronic comorbidities. About seven million Australians, or around 28% of the total population, live in rural and remote areas.

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Expansion of remote tech can help safeguard care for people with disabilities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 2, 2021

The COVID-19 crisis endangered an already fragile support system for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, the report shows. And some health systems have relied on telemedicine during the pandemic to continue providing seamless care for patients with disabilities. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

Healthcare It News

JANUARY 10, 2023

The Connecticut Children's Care Network, with 37 independent pediatric practices and more than 200 pediatric primary care providers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, has a mission to improve the quality of care and health outcomes for infants, children and adolescents. ON THE RECORD.

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California Consumer Privacy Act can cause headaches for healthcare orgs

Healthcare It News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After interviewing 19 digital privacy and information system experts, researchers found that professionals perceived legal and technological challenges for healthcare organizations in complying with CCPA. WHY IT MATTERS. " ON THE RECORD.

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HHS watchdog reiterates importance of preventing telemedicine fraud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General recognized telehealth's potential while cautioning that steps must be taken to ensure virtual care will not be compromised by fraud. "OIG is conducting significant oversight work assessing telehealth services during the public health emergency.

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The Unequal Impact of COVID-19 In Minority Communitities

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

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The rise of virtual care during the COVID-19 pandemic

Necessity is the Mother(board) – How COVID-19 Inspires Local Communities to Build Broadband

Remote pulse oximetry monitoring could help spot signs of deterioration in COVID-19 patients

Virtual care system designed for COVID-19 grows into a multiuse digital health tool

The Institutionalization Missing Data Problem

Stanford Medicine Taps Komodo Health Platform to Study COVID-19 Ripple Effects

Penn Medicine gets $2.5M to study RPM's effect on COVID-19 disparities

Reflections on the United States Health Care System and the Right to Health

How AI and machine learning can predict illness and boost health equity

How QHINs Can Relieve Inequity in Interoperability

CDC Awards Truveta Real-World Data Contract to Study COVID, Maternal Health, Pediatric Care

Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

Mount Sinai-linked computer pads keep patients at home during COVID-19

How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

The Future of Personalized Patient Engagement: Driving Optimal Population Health Outcomes

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

TransUnion Reveals the Home Economics and Social Determinants of COVID-19

Roundup: Latrobe Regional Hospital turns to VR training and more briefs

Combating patient loneliness through conversational AI

Overcoming Ripple Effects of COVID-19 to Boost Patient Outcomes: 3 Insights

Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19

Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19

Research reveals people’s mental health is negatively impacted by COVID-19

How to fight back against public health mis- and disinformation

The Public Health Case Against Gas Appliances

Avoid losing 55% of your patients to poor digital communication

Chatbots and related automation can ease staffing shortages, triage patients

U.S. lawmakers reintroduce House bill safeguarding access to telehealth

Heart Disease: Still the Silent Killer Despite Prevention Options

Digital Therapeutics Alliance applauds bill to guide public Rx coverage

The State of Healthcare in America, State-By-State

5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era

How Digital Health Tools Can Help Promote Vaccine Adherence

“We’ve normalized a very high death toll in the U.S.” – How A Trust Deficit Has Infected America’s COVID Outcomes

Majority of people open to using telehealth for sleep concerns

Elevating Healthcare Through Risk Stratification: Lessons from North Carolina’s Value-Based Initiatives

The International Weaponization of Health Data

South Australia starts 24/7 remote rural health monitoring

Expansion of remote tech can help safeguard care for people with disabilities

Connecticut Children's Care Network adds telehealth breastfeeding support

California Consumer Privacy Act can cause headaches for healthcare orgs

HHS watchdog reiterates importance of preventing telemedicine fraud

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