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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The program aims to improve the cancer diagnostic process in telemedicine-enabled primary care settings by strengthening safety culture and helping practices to close the loop on care transitions and other vulnerable processes along the cancer diagnostic pathway. Dr. Hardeep Singh is principal investigator.

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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

Health Populi

First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. The table arrays data the researchers analyzed from 2002 to 2016, identifying patterns of six types of medical services used by race and age group. colonoscopy).

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Slow Food, Slow Medicine: What Italy Can Teach America About Health

Health Populi

[Health insurance coverage is also an important social determinant of health, but for this post, I’ll forgo that discussion — albeit a key pillar of a healthy community]. In 2016, the U.S. Now look out image #2: the proportion of GDP spent on healthcare by OECD nation. ranked as the biggest spender, allocating 17.8%