Public health laws typically come long after social norms shift, affirming a widespread acceptance that a change in habits is worth the public good and that it’s time for stragglers to fall in line. This fast-moving pandemic, however, doesn’t afford society the luxury of time. State mandates have put local officials in charge of changing behavior while general understanding catches up.
Lessons that underscore the importance of strong public health infrastructures, community-based care and support for the most needy can be applied to the U.S. today as it navigates the Covid-19 pandemic, two experts say.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
A look at some of the developments that have helped telehealth and telemedicine evolve, including policy issues, collaboration deals and some of the players in virtual care.
While the devices themselves will be free for users, additional health coaching services and software offerings will require a monthly fee.
The company is releasing three types of maps meant to help public health organizations stay ahead of disease outbreaks and guide disaster response: population density maps, movement maps and network coverage maps.
With an eye to the successful use cases in Texas and Puerto Rico, emocha CEO Sebastian Seiguer hopes to convert more public health departments into customers in 2018.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
In addition to supporting programs in disease prevention and improving access to care in developing countries, CaringCrowd has also hosted projects raising funds for underserved populations in the U.S.
EHRs can be a nuisance. But new research shows data from electronic health records can be a useful tool for population health surveillance.
"I think the analytics engines that are driving electronic health records are even driving those that are aggregating data from multiple sources that potentially have a very meaningful and powerful impact on public health."
A good public health EHR will automatically customize clinical forms for each department. Moreover, it will allow the data generated to be structured for reporting at both the state and federal levels.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
Baltimore officials presented a 10-year plan Tuesday that sharply highlights the poor health status of African-Americans and aims to bring black rates of lead poisoning, heart disease, obesity, smoking and overdoses more in line with those of whites.
The vendor sent a specific notice via the EHR to 94 clinicians at 24 different athenahealth clients, serving 1,800 at-risk patients in the affected area of Miami.
Pathologists at a dozen hospitals in the state are part of a pilot project — the first of its kind in the United States — in which they are reporting cancer diagnoses in close to real-time to the California Cancer Registry. And they are using standardized electronic forms to make their reporting more consistent and accurate.
The overall collaboration is part of a state-funded pilot project at Texas A&M called Healthy South Texas, which focuses on preventing diabetes, asthma and infectious diseases in 27 counties in South Texas.
A death certificate needs to say more than something vague like “opioid intoxication” to help both law enforcement and public health officials curb the distribution — and hopefully abuse — of opioids.