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Can Artificial Intelligence Replicate The Human Touch in Healthcare Provision?

HIT Consultant

The craze reached its apotheosis with the spoof launch, by Viz magazine, of the Satsuma Castanet XR4 Turbo supercar, which promised potential buyers that, if they bought one, they would never sleep alone again.

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Psychedelic Inequities and Unexplored Risk: Colonization, Commercialization, and Regulation

Bill of Health

By excluding diverse contributions to the psychedelic field, we risk establishing psychedelic practices that exacerbate racial health inequities (disparities) in which people of color experience worse health outcomes as compared to whites on a population level.

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How Virtual Care Will Play Out in 2022 – a Look Post-CES and JPM

Health Populi

A new study from CIGNA and its subsidiary MDLive touts the cost-effectiveness of telehealth to improve health outcomes, reducing the need for unnecessary lab work, reducing duplication of care, and connecting patients with high-performing providers. We have some early data points we can weave into the answer to this question.

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The Growing State of Diabetes in America on World Diabetes Day 2018

Health Populi

” Thus far, Panera has developed videos on sugar, eggs, and meat quality and provenance for food system sustainability and human health outcomes. Businesses as employers, too, can better equip on-site cafeterias with healthier food options, and nudge people toward more active lifestyles through artful health benefit design.

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How Continuous Glucose Monitoring Can Alleviate Language Barriers in Diabetes Care

HIT Consultant

I like to present diabetes treatments and technologies as an opportunity for the whole family to improve their overall health. Effective approaches I’ve used with this patient population to improve diabetes health outcomes include: – Educating families and loved ones.

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The Color of Care – Oprah and The Smithsonian Channel Partner on Health Equity

Health Populi

Among the many testimonies in the film is Dr. Neel Shah, Assistant Professor of OBGYN and Reproductive Biology at the Harvard Medical School and Chief Medical Officer of the Maven Clinic, who told the Smithsonian Magazine , “ Racial inequity shows up in every dimension of health care. ” In parallel, Rep.

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Food Trends and Hunger in the Pandemic – the Importance of Food Security in Health and Economic Security

Health Populi

RAND’s top-line was that, “COVID-19 has magnified preexisting racial/ethnic disparities in food security in a very short time, a circumstance linked to a wide variety of health outcomes… now at the highest levels observed over the past decade.”

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