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Supporting emergency medical response with mobile technology

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Read the full case study here. Enterprise Taxonomy: Telehealth Patient Access Population and Public Health Interoperability Care Data and Information Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

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and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Art As Medicine – WHO Weaves the Evidence for Arts’ Role in Improving Health

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Third, to recognize and leverage the cross-cutting nature of arts and health breaking down siloes between the two sectors, bringing the arts-health evidence into medical and arts education, and bolstering arts-humanities education overall. The report provides case studies in each of the thematic areas listed in Figure 2.

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The Healthcare and Macro-Economic Impacts of Living with Endemic COVID – Listening to Fitch

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The third chart details some of these points: On the macroeconomic side of the forecast, we see increasing private consumption, higher inflation, less public sector support (e.g., PPP in the US), and in emerging markets, currency weakness.

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Can the U.S. Improve Health System Performance with Digital Health Tools? Pondering A Big Question for #HIMSS21

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That’s what government regulation and intervention are for, to make more fair and effective the lack of a real health care market. In the immediate term, looking from “now” to one and three years from now, we can expect the private sector to take on more public health roles.

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Add Behavioral Data to Social Determinants For Better Patient Understanding

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The Sage team explains that, by layering knowledge about peoples’ behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes on top of the traditional SDOH factors, health care providers can mash-up SBDoH – “socio-behavioral determinants of health” — your new acronym to add to your growing list of healthcare ABCs.

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Bolstering Health Literacy in a Little Book: Burn Prevention and Care With “The Family Oops”

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The plotline takes us through four mini case studies featuring each family member and their burn-mishap, each an object lesson in a burn cause followed by prescriptive advice for preventing and treating each type of injury.

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