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Redefining PPE As Primary Care, Public Health, and Health Equity – The Community PPE Index

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” As OED evolves the definition of PPE, the wordsmiths could borrow from OSHA’s website , noting that PPE, “is equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses. In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” In the U.S.,

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

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This is the theme of a new report from the FMI Foundation called The Power of Health and Well-Being in Food Retail. The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. Health care delivery in the U.S.

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

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At the same time, CTA has published a paper on Advancing Health Equity Through Technology which complements and reinforces the PHTI announcement and objective. Tribal health departments. Over 160,000 public and private labs. Hospitals and health care providers. Health plans. value-based).

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The Top Patient Safety Risks in 2025 Are Mostly About the “Human OS” – Reading ECRI’s Annual Report

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The definition of medical gaslighting offered by the American Journal of Medicine is that it’s derived from the term “‘gaslighting,’ when an individual is manipulated into questioning their own perception.”

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Americans’ Views on Food Have Been Re-Shaped by the Pandemic: Think Security, Immunity, and Sustainability

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Americans are also keener on looking at food-as-medicine and health-making, as their definition of what “healthy food” is grew more positive in 2021. consumers’ changing attitudes toward food during the public health crisis. These check-ins go back to June 2020 and demonstrate U.S.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

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Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Montana Senate committee unanimously moves forward with telehealth expansion bill

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Extend the coverage requirement to public employee benefit plans and student health plans. The bill also revises the definition of telehealth to expand beyond licensed physician-provided care and encompass treatment such as behavioral health. Nearly two dozen people offered testimony in favor of the bill at the hearing.