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COVID-19 telemonitoring tool adapted to prevent heat-related illness

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Extreme heat has a significant impact on public health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe Guide on Adaptation to Heat for Health provides the building blocks of a plan to ensure an effective heat response for local populations. Europe had its second warmest July on record this year, with temperatures 1.4

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Physician Burnout is a Public Health Crisis

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Physician burnout is a public health issue that “urgently demands action” from the rest of the healthcare industry, according to a report from Harvard University and Massachusetts trade groups. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Harvard Global Health Institute in Cambridge, Mass.,

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As Food-As-Medicine Gains Momentum, Watch for Dietitians and Pharmacists to Sit at The FaM Table – And A Lesson from George Washington Carver

Health Populi

The food industry, both retail food chains and food suppliers, has found health and nutrition are having a positive impact on their businesses both for margins and for missions, we learn in the latest annual survey on Food Industry Contributions to Health & Well-being, 2024 , from FMI.

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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Takes Social Determinants of Health to New Heights

Healthcare IT Today

During the past decade, finally, health care is starting to deal in a structured, measurable manner with the life factors and environments that play the biggest role in their patients’ health. Are there disparities in program participation or health outcomes?

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The intersection of LLMs, EHRs and SDoH

Lloyd Price

Opportunities for Collaboration: LLMs and public health researchers: Collaborations can leverage LLMs to analyze large datasets and identify patterns in SDoH factors that contribute to health disparities. By analyzing language in EHRs and patient surveys, LLMs can detect implicit biases in healthcare practices and communication.

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Premier lists rule relaxations that should be made permanent, post-pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Department of Health and Human Services Premier made the case that some two-dozen federal regulatory waivers – enacted early in the coronavirus pandemic to enable rapid response to COVID-19 – should be made permanent once the public health emergency has ended. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Trust in Healthcare is Under Stress in the US and Globally, Edelman Finds

Health Populi

The first chart from the Edelman health care update demonstrates that in most countries polled, health citizens’ trust in health care was buoyed in the first five months of 2020 (January through May): up 18 points in the U.S., 14 points in Canada and Germany, and 9 points up in the UK and Saudi Arabia.

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