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Vendor Notebook: Salesforce extends AI to public health services, DrFirst acquires Myndshft

Healthcare It News

Lab kits delivered by Uber for preventive care Portland, Oregon-based Reperio Health startup, which offers test kits by delivery, signed an agreement with Uber to deliver a kit to a person’s home within an hour of ordering it, GreekWire reported this month.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: About This Toolkit and Our Framework

NASHP

1] Second, fostering joint efforts among health care system partners and public health to drive action on common priorities. In contrast to population-based interventions and upstream prevention that have traditionally been the realm of public health, the U.S.

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NASHP Launches a New Public Health Modernization Project

NASHP

The demands of the pandemic have made it clear that the public health system cannot work in a silo to do the foundational public health work of communicable disease prevention; maternal, child, and family health services; access to and linkage with clinical care; and preventing chronic disease and injury.

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NASHP Public Health Modernization Learning Collaborative: Building Linkages Between Public Health and the Health Care System

NASHP

State applications may include a team of up to five members, composed of at least two senior state officials or administrators (such as state Medicaid officials, state public health agency officials, governor’s health policy leaders, legislators, local public health leads, etc.). State Team Composition.

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HHS Issues Proposed Rule to Provide Clarity on Rights of Conscience in Healthcare

Sheppard Health Law

The provisions also prohibit entities that receive federal funds from denying admission or discriminating against any applicant for training or study based on their reluctance or willingness to counsel, recommend, perform, or assist in certain health services or research activities because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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Recovering Routine Immunization Rates — State Strategies to Move beyond COVID-19 

NASHP

In the United States, new data indicate that nearly 27 percent of surveyed households had at least one or more children who missed or delayed a preventive visit because of the pandemic. New strategies are needed to identify and catch-up children who have missed routine immunizations to prevent future outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.

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Public Health Modernization Toolkit: Key Commitments, Priorities, and Strategies to Advance Collaboration between Public Health and Health Systems

NASHP

A precondition of sustaining these partnerships is sustained investment in state and local public health capacity. Funding for state and local health departments decreased 17 percent between 2009 and 2019, while experts estimate that an additional $4.5