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Global Initiative on Digital Health (GIDH) Launched at G20 Summit to Revolutionize Healthcare

Digital Health Global

The inception of this initiative can be traced back to the 2005 WHO resolution on eHealth, which paved the way for the development and adoption of the WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health. Notably, over 120 WHO Member States have since formulated their national digital health policies or strategies.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

Health Populi

But America’s per capita primary care physician supply fell between 2005 and 2015. The January 2020 Health Affairs published a paper on Primary Care Physicians’ Role in Coordinating Medical and Health-Related Social Needs in Eleven Countries.

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The Most Relevant Companies in Health Care – Learning From the W2O Group

Health Populi

This includes health care. While “ESG” was first coined in 2005, the coronavirus pandemic, the issues solidifying in 2020 shown above in the first image, and climate change converged over the past year.

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The who, what, when, where, and why of Cochrane

Society for Participatory Medicine

Cochrane is now an internationally renowned initiative (Clarke 2005; Green 2005).” ” Since 1993 – only 25 years – Cochrane has spread across the globe, with centers on every populated continent: Cochrane UK (and their Evidently Cochrane blog , which is terrific).

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Emerging with A Stronger Healthcare System Post-COVID: NAM’s Lessons Learned

Health Populi

The report on health care systems and providers was released this week: COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs was authored by experts on the front-line of health care delivery, medical education, and health policy. ” That was 2005. The paper describes the landscape of the U.S.

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

IntraHealth provided technical assistance for significant scale-up of family planning services, training hundreds of health workers and bringing long- acting reversible contraception to the health center level.

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5 payer trends to watch in 2018

Henry Kotula

Deductibles went from accounting for less than 25% of cost-sharing payments in 2005 to almost half in 2015. Overall, patient-cost sharing increased by 66% from an average of $469 in 2005 to $778 in 2015.