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Decriminalizing Abortion in Argentina: 8 Takeaways from the Inflection Point of Legalization

Bill of Health

Discursive changes wherein “exceptions” were reframed as “indications” helped shift a default of abortion criminalization to a framework under which women were asserting rights to services. Socorristas en Red developed community-based strategies to spread reliable information and provide support for self-managed abortions (with misoprostol).

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One RPM expert's take on why the tech is needed alongside telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, healthcare provider organizations across the country began implementing telehealth technologies and services en masse. Like telehealth, RPM can really improve care, gain efficiencies and trim costs. Telemedicine finally made it to the mainstream. Please elaborate.

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Virtual Primary Care Reimagined With A Virtual First Health Plan

HIT Consultant

The promise of primary care on improved health outcomes has been proven over time. These positive relationships often improve patient satisfaction, yielding higher engagement and utilization of primary care services. However, recent studies suggest people are not engaging with primary care.

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How the VA Uses Synthetic Data to Predict Veterans’ Suicide Risk

HIT Consultant

A key piece of this wide-ranging initiative involves using synthetic data to build models that identify risk, tailor recommended treatments, and engage care to at-risk veterans as early as possible. Like many healthcare organizations, the VA experienced challenges with fragmented patient data and stringent, yet essential, privacy regulations.

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Patching Cybersecurity Gaps in Healthcare, with New FDA Guidelines and Zero Trust

HIT Consultant

When it comes to protecting patients from the impacts of ransomware, the time has come for the healthcare sector to rethink the way it approaches cyber resilience — starting with Zero Trust strategies. The unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks on the healthcare sector has upended long-held assumptions about network security.

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Costs, Consumerism, Cyber and Care, Everywhere – The 2019 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

Here’s our trend-weaving of 4 C’s for 2019: costs, consumerism, cyber and care, everywhere… Health care costs will continue to be a mainstream pocketbook issue for patients and caregivers, with consequences for payors, suppliers and ultimately, policymakers.