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

Health Populi

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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5 Ways Federated Computing Can Reshape Public Health

HIT Consultant

Unlocking data silos using Federated Computing (FC) has the potential to achieve a positive impact across the healthcare industry, ranging from clinical care quality improvement and accreditation to population health management, precision public health and equitable drug development.

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What is the Potential for Digital Twins in Healthcare?

HIT Consultant

Sometimes, instead of recommending an aggressive treatment like chemotherapy, it’s important to see if a patient has certain genomic biomarkers that can inform doctors if another approach may work better for that patient. Creating a digital twin to anticipate patient needs and the length of their stay can be very valuable. .

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Why Preventive Healthcare Hinges on Diagnostics Innovation

HIT Consultant

Blood tests, biopsies, and X-rays transformed medicine by allowing doctors and clinicians to look under the surface and better pinpoint the cause of a patient’s symptoms. This is the pivotal role diagnostics will play, but not as it has mostly been known and used since these tools came into working practice.

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

Health Populi

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices.

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

Health Populi

In each of these three domains, the research showed that compared with states with lower resignation rates, those states with highest resignation rates revealed, Less access to health care facilities and resources (such as fewer doctors per capita). Weaker ties to the community, and. Lower financial well-being (e.g.,

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The Future of Digital Transformation in Hospitals

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This includes both structured data (such as lab results and medications) and unstructured data (such as notes from doctors and nurses). He is currently focused on contributing to the development of safe, equitable and impactful Artificial Intelligence in healthcare and life sciences industry.