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How one triage center delivers more culturally sensitive mental health and addiction care

Healthcare It News

In the face of high addiction rates, mounting mental health crises, and daily reports of overdoses and suicides in the United States, a community triage center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has come up with a novel care approach that can be replicated around the world.

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Spotlight on NYC Health + Hospitals

Hanys

Rooted in person-centered care, their Street Health Outreach & Wellness program brings primary care, harm reduction services, connections to substance use treatment, housing resources, behavioral health services and material goods to people who are unsheltered across NYC.

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Eight Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Social Determinants of Health

Bill of Health

Even the objection that changing social determinants will take too long fails when we consider that we have been throwing resources at symptoms for more than two decades without success.” Sterling Johnson, JD, MA is a Research Analyst at the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University Beasley School of Law and a Ph.D.

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In Saudi Arabia, machine learning model helps reduce outpatient no-shows

Healthcare It News

MNGHA comprises more than 30 hospitals, specialty hospitals and primary care centers across Saudi Arabia, with all facilities linked to a unified EHR system called BESTCare. "Advanced analytics, prediction and machine learning." That gives the "advantage of having a huge amount of data," Al Ghamdi explained.

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CIOs' 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies

Healthcare It News

Some advanced healthcare provider organizations, such as large academic medical centers, are already well-advanced in their precision medicine efforts. Mike Mistretta, vice president and CIO at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. Physician education and patient communication are two other areas that will demand attention.

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ChatGPT's potential impact on preventative care and emergency visits

Healthcare It News

With approximately 250,000 primary care physicians and an additional 250,000 non-physician primary care providers in the United States, according to the National Center for Healthcare Workforce Analysis, the redistribution of routine tasks to non-physician staff and directly to patients can significantly enhance the efficiency of patient care.

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Geisinger gets USDA rural development grant for inpatient virtual nursing

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHY IT MATTERS With the grant, disbursed as part of the USDA's Distance Learning and Telemedicine program, will be used to outfit Geisinger Medical Center and Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital with new telehealth technologies as part of Geisinger's Virtual Nursing Program, which launched this past year.

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