Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In May 2020, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) re-visited the acronym, “PPE.” 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. These injuries and illnesses may result from contact with chemical, radiological, physical, electrical, mechanical, or other workplace hazards.

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KHN

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Podiatrist Dr. Mark Lewis greets his first patient of the morning in his suburban Seattle exam room and points to a tiny video camera mounted on the right rim of his glasses. “This is my scribe, Jacqueline,” he says. “She can see us and hear us.” Jacqueline is watching the appointment on her computer screen after the sun has set, 8,000 miles away in Mysore, a southern Indian city known for its palaces and jasmine flowers.

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Healthy Debate

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I am a wheelchair-using mother who needs help accessing showers and with some transfers for day-to-day activities. Since the beginning of the pandemic, I have paid for some personal protective equipment (PPE) on my own and for the folks that come to our house to support us.

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Healthcare Council

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Leadership Health Care proudly presents a new virtual series “Meet the LHC Board.” This monthly series allows LHC members the opportunity to become more familiar, personally, with those who sit on the LHC Board. Gain direct insight from board members as they candidly speak about their careers, the new normal and much more. Videos from. The post Meet the LHC Board appeared first on Nashville Health Care Council.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The U.S. health care community is collectively embracing the concept of social determinants of health that have become so obvious in understanding the disparities of health outcomes wrought by the coronavirus pandemic. Research from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health conducted with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and NPR illustrates the fact that people who are at risk for one social determinant of health tend to be challenged by a bucket of them.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

I have always appreciated Medecision’s mission as expressed in the company’s tagline: “Liberating,” as in “liberate healthcare.” I began collaborating with Medecision as a client several years ago, a couple of years after I heard Todd Park, then Chief Technology Officer in the White House, joyfully assert the phrase, “Data Liberación!

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In the pandemic, I’ve been weaving together data to better understand how people as consumers are being re-shaped in daily life across their Maslow Hierarchies of Needs. One of those basic needs has been digital connectivity. People of color have faced many disparities in the wake of the pandemic: the virus itself, exacting greater rates of mortality and morbidity being the most obvious, dramatic inequity.

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