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Black Health Should Matter More in America: The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health

Health Populi

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). More than twice as many Black men believe that in 2020 compared with 2006.

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A Tale of Two Americas as Told by the 2019 OECD Report on Health

Health Populi

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. health care versus the OECD peer nations. fall below the OECD average, and the proportion of people who self-report that they are in “good health” is the third highest in the OECD. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. For the U.S.

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ACO Lessons Learned: Revisiting the Timing of Downside Risk

E-CareManagement

Provider protests cajoled CMS to backing off an initial stance of “firm and unwavering” for ACO mandatory risk requirements in 2011. The issue is being revisited in major 2014 MSSP reg revisions which are in process.

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The Two Canoes: Fee-for-Service Reimbursement for Remote Patient Monitoring

care innovations

Thank you to the Alliance for Connected Care, The Center for Connected Health Policy, Krista Drobac, Nathaniel Lacktman, David Ryan, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Service and many others for your persistence in driving change and moving American healthcare forward. Asia and Europe.

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

Society for Participatory Medicine

Over its first 20 years, Cochrane has grown from an initial group of 77 people from nine countries who met at the first Cochrane Colloquium in Oxford in 1993 to over 31,000 contributors from more than 120 countries in 2015, making it the largest organization involved in this kind of work (Allen 2006; Allen 2007; Allen 2011).

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Rwanda : The Digital Health Pioneer

Lloyd Price

This is telemedicine; a trend of offering medical services that started as early as 2011 at Rwanda Military Hospital. By investing in the development of human resources, the African Alliance will help governments develop the cadres of technology experts and tech-savvy leaders needed to support digital health policies.

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Can AI Make Healthcare Human Again? Dr. Topol Says “Yes”

Health Populi

Verghese, and since you’re reading the Health Populi blog, you must get to know Dr. V now. Your first dip into his wisdom should be “A Doctor’s Touch,” his TED talk from 2011 with over 1.5 million views. You will thank me for pointing you to this pearl. You will want to know more.

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