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What Are Patients Looking for in a Doctor? It Depends on Who You Ask…and Their Race

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While the same proportion of Black and White patients say they are looking for a doctor with empathy and compassion, there are relatively large differences between patients based on their race, found in the Everyday Health-Castle Connolly Physician-Consumer study. consumers and 277 Castle Connolly health care professionals.

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Why Mainstream Precision Medicine Hinges on Healthcare HPC Storage

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Adam Marko, Director of Life Science Solutions at Panasas. The healthcare industry is experiencing a data deluge, and it shows no sign of slowing down. Making this data accessible to doctors will not only save money and time, but also lives. Their findings will put even more critical data into doctors’ hands.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

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Today there's a huge push to integrate social determinants of health data into these larger datasets, but we remain in a situation where that data is either not collected or too general to be useful. This leads to death and preventable hospitalizations, among other terrible outcomes.

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Your State as a Determinant of Health: Sharecare’s 2021 Community Well-Being Index

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The addition of these determinants of health data has enriched the Well-Being Index and better inform our planning and strategies, whether for public policy or commercial health care products and services. Based on the extensive data mash-up across the 10 domains and nearly 500,000 surveys conducted throughout the U.S.,

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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know

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Cristina Varner, Newfront, SVP National Life Science & Healthcare Practice Gone are the days when healthcare information was only available to us at the doctor’s office or through the office’s online portals, and that’s in part due to the rapidly growing popularity of wearable technology devices.

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HIMSS22 Day 2 Roundup: Google Partners with MEDITECH, Microsoft’s Health Cloud Strategy Expansions

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Veterans who opt to participate in the program, which was co-developed with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and is run through Evidation’s app , will be able to track relevant heart health data over time, like activity, mood, symptom, and weight data, and have that data shared back with them weekly.

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Nurses Hacking for Health and Compassionomics

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In health care, right here, right now at the May 2021 #NH4H session, our problems were categorized in four challenge areas; Vaccine education and delivery. Health equity, and. Care settings (think: outside or away from the hospital bed or doctor’s office). Medical Deserts.

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