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A Few #HealthPolicyValentines

Healthcare IT Today

HealthPolicyValentines pic.twitter.com/nZx2DcTCGI — MA Health Policy Commission (@Mass_HPC) February 13, 2024 Medicare could never negotiate your cost because you are priceless. Less fragmented health data. We hope you’ll enjoy a nice break this Valentine’s day. What does that mean for patients?

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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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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The Role of Informatics

BHM Healthcare Solutions

It involves the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of healthcare data to support decision-making, facilitate communication, and improve healthcare outcomes. The field encompasses a wide range of technologies, such as electronic health records (EHRs) , clinical decision support systems (CDSS), telemedicine, and health data analytics.

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Love and Health: The Education of Abner Mason, SameSky Health

Health Populi

Once graduated, Abner took his first job with Bain & Company in the consultant training program and just so happened to be exposed to health care clients, inspiring an interest in the finance side of health. Fate had other things planned for Abner. Nobody wants to be treated like who they are doesn’t matter.

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Why COVID-19’s Death Toll Will Climb Long After the Pandemic Is Over

Henry Kotula

Sure, we still had to wear masks on the flights, trains and buses. Our increasing return to normal makes it easy to believe the pandemic is almost over. Grocery markets and big-box stores in some communities still asked that we wear them, too. The staff at Nationals Park here in D.C.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

Dr. Wallensky and other public health officials acknowledged “vaccine fatigue” and the relatively low uptake of vaccinations for fending off the coronavirus and the flu as well as other infectious diseases. healthcare system. People may be sick of being sick nationally and globally.

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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Populi

To illustrate the need for a healthier approach to AI, he offered this scenario: “If I use a data set of one million Scandinavian Lutherans to create the most amazing EKG algorithm ever and then we decide to use it in Spain, is it going to work?”. What health IT can learn from the history of the nutrition label. A nutrition label.

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