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New efforts try to balance nurse staffing ratios with access to care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's National Nurses Week 2024 , and it's time to celebrate the more than 5 million RNs nationwide who are so essential to care delivery. But overshadowing the celebration are many challenges impacting the nursing workforce. Feds, states take up nurse staffing The past four years have been especially tough on nurses, of course.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Previous articles in this series showed why social determinants of health (SDoH) are the hottest recent addition to data used by the medical industry. We’ve explored how SDoH data is defined and shared. It uses data collected from patients as well as ZIP code or census block data on populations.

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Bonus Features – April 2, 2023 – 63% of nurses say AI will cause a generational divide among nursing staff, 67% of consumers prefer electronic medical bills but 78% of providers still use paper, and more

Healthcare IT Today

With the end of the public health emergency, DEA is proposing a rollback on flexibility for remote prescribing. If the DEA’s proposed rules become final, ATA warned in a statement , patients “will fall through the cracks, creating a significant and avoidable public health crisis.”

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GIS Data Sharing – A Model for Healthcare Data Interoperability?

Healthcare IT Today

For more than a decade, healthcare has struggled with sharing data. We have not achieved data interoperability despite an abundance of technology, standards, and legislation. They share their data using open standards and common platforms because they share a common goal – to make the world a better place.

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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. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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“The virus is the boss” — U.S. lives and livelihoods at the beginning of 2021

Health Populi

This third chart, labeled Figure 6, details health occupations with the largest differences in employed women and men. You can see million-person differences for registered nurses, nursing assistants, and personal care aides, and half-million worker deltas for LPNs and medical assistants.

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Enabling better health care, everywhere – my conversation with Microsoft

Health Populi

.” Molly and I covered a lot of ground here , starting with the key forces shaping and accelerating virtual care across the continuum. Thanks to Microsoft for its leadership in enabling better healthcare, everywhere.