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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

In this post, I’ll share just a handful of insights that were particularly impactful to my work and my commitment to work toward health citizenship for all people in the U.S. First, consider the big health economics picture painted in the paper US Health Care Spending by Race and Ethnicity. colonoscopy).

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

In health care, these would be our honest-and-ethical front-line workers — nurses, physicians, and pharmacists, the latest Gallup Poll on the question learned (described here in Health Populi).

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

ASPE analyzed data from 62,451,150 people who had 1 or more vaccine doses administered by 3-10-21. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. Health Populi’s Hot Points: In the pandemic, millions of people who felt symptoms of COVID-19 avoided seeking care due to cost and/or access challenges (of which cost is a key factor).

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Consumers’ Trust In Pharmacists As Providers Grows Along with Omnichannel Health Care

Health Populi

As health/care goes omni-channel enabling patients-as-consumers to express their service demands across a platform of virtual and in-person front-doors, so the pharmacy will be embedded in these work- and life-flows. Welcome to the growing digitization of the consumer’s health-journey.

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Two Forms of Telemedicine: Synchronous vs. Asynchronous

Lloyd Price

Often, special telehealth-enabled instruments, such as a video otoscope or an electronic stethoscope, are operated by a nurse or technician at the consulting provider's direction to remotely perform a physical examination." ""Wait times for specialty care are lessened, especially in areas with shortages of medical specialists.""The

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Prelude to Health 2.0 2019: Thinking Consumers At the Center of Digital Health Transformation

Health Populi

As EY’s framework illustrates here in the Venn diagram, these many health and wellbeing touch-points leverage various technologies and services: maturing EHRs and acute care, as well as emerging tech like AI, blockchain, and biometrics. ” toward the close of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.