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

Health Populi

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. suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

CCHP: CCHP stands for the Center for Connected Health Policy and is a non-profit that has been designated the national telehealth policy resource center. The organization researches telehealth policy issues and keeps updated information on state telehealth laws and reimbursement.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use of emergency rooms, medical equipment, and generic versus brand medications. They also obtain public health data by ZIP code and data from a Health Information Exchange (HIE).

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Techquity: How Technology Can Help to Scale Health and Digital Equity, Live from VIVE 2022

Health Populi

In his work at Howard University and in Baltimore in the public health department, he learned to connect families with services they needed beyond medical care, for housing, community development, education, transportation — all, in his words, “pieces of the puzzle that go into what makes people healthy.”