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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

Dowling leads one of the largest health systems in the U.S., serving millions of health citizens residing in greater New York City and reaching out into the area’s boroughs and ‘burbs. Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. We must address the poor state of the public health infrastructure.

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Telehealth Legislation Passes Ways & Means, As GLP-1s Are Fast-Meshing with Telemedicine in the Marketplace

Health Populi

While telehealth can be a solution for addressing health equity and access gaps, some of the retail/consumer-driven programs may exacerbate disparities in access to medicines that can help address public health epidemics.

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HIMSS21 & Health 2.0 European Health Conference Review

Digital Health Today

The HIMSS21 & Health 2.0 European Health Conference, one of Europe’s largest digital health and care events, was held virtually from June 7-9, 2021. Definitely, the takeaways of this conference are that the COVID-19 pandemic has opened up new frontiers, generating new approaches mandatory in healthcare.

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The Tik Tok’ing of Medical Mis-Information: Doctors’ and Patients’ Roles in Curating Healthy Advice

Health Populi

The doctor survey was conducted of 263 physicians by Merck Manuals at the Family Medical Experience conference. ” I worked with life science companies and social health education programs when AIDS emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s, early in my career as a health care consultant.

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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. But what about after the public health emergency? Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. You can find it, along with other sessions, here.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

Health Populi

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept.

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

At the micro-level, the lack of data interoperability means that patient data cannot be easily shared between the hospital that the patient visited and the family physician that regularly takes care of them…or between the nursing home and the urgent care clinic. At a macro-level, the lack of interoperability hampers community health efforts.