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Study: NYC Black, Latino patients less likely than white patients to use telehealth during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This remains true, said researchers from the Department of Population Health Sciences and Policy, even after adjusting for age, comorbidities and preferred language. "While telehealth has many benefits, especially during a global pandemic, it may create and/or exacerbate health disparities," wrote the research team.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. The TDCJ system operates 31 state prisons at the cost of $3 billion a year – spending $581 million on just healthcare in one year.

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Population Health POV — “It’s About Patient Data”

E-CareManagement

Global Director of Healthcare Transformation, IBM; President, Patient- Centered Primary Care. CEO, Southeast Texas Medical Associates, Adjunct Professor, Family & Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, San. A&M Health Science Center, Beaumont, TX. James (Larry) Holly, M.D.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

One Brooklyn Health employed CipherHealth to automate outreach for an Equity Index Survey, with the goal of advancing health equity by amplifying the patient’s voice and reducing health disparities. Like many other vendors, Equality Health is used by primary care providers and others to make value-based care work.

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Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Navina released a generative AI assistant for primary care practices. Sales Texas A&M University Health Science Center chose Let’s Talk to provide tele-behavioral care to underserved populations in the state. Syntellis launched Axios Referral Patterns to help networks identify sources of revenue leakage.

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Asymptomatic Hypoglycemia, a Silent Killer

Insulin Nation

According to Dr. Jing Wang, an assistant professor with the department of nursing systems at the University of Texas Health Science Center, asymptomatic hypoglycemia, like other forms of hypoglycemia, can occur because of any combination of too much insulin in the bloodstream, excess stress, or skipping a meal.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

The program belongs to both Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences and Khoury College of Computer Sciences. Since the program’s inception, the curriculum has required that students develop proficiency in health science, management science, and information science.