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.
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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.
Dr. Mark Hyman, director of the Center for Functional Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, offered some powerful evidence that points to “yes.”
The home care industry is booming. As Baby Boomers age and more families seek in-home solutions for loved ones, demand for home care services is at an all-time high.
The system's estimates of national and regional flu activity had error rates 2- to 3-fold lower than earlier predictive models. It also correctly estimated the timing and magnitude of the national flu peak week.
Despite early concerns, the concept of "crowdsourced health" has caught on with public-health researchers.
Funding priorities outlined on the website include physician supply, diagnosing and treating particular illnesses, educating people about their health, and providing better equipment and more medications to hospitals and clinics.
With the help of the Epic Systems EMR at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha discovered that children had far higher lead levels in their blood a year after Flint switched its water supply than a similar group did a year before the change.
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Health IT obviously should be part of public health surveillance efforts because epidemiology relies so heavily on data.
The Academy suggests that doctors individualize counseling for parents based on the particular baby’s chances of survival and the family’s goals for their child.
Ischemic strokes, in which a vessel supplying blood to the brain is blocked, are the most common type of stroke, representing 87 percentof all strokes.
BuzzFeed discusses how analysis of social media and Internet search habits has proven so useful in identifying public health outbreaks and other trends.
Until now, only two cities raised age barriers to buying cigarettes -- New York City and Honolulu.