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This report summarizes key findings from the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) for national indicators of substance use and mental health among people aged 12 years old or older in the civilian, noninstitutionalized pop
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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, families across Los Angeles County have endured multiple waves of sickness, insecurity, joblessness, learning loss, and challenges to mental health. These impacts have been felt across Ange
Read more…To better understand the basics of interoperability and health information exchange, HIMSS walks you through the following elements:
What is Interoperability?
Interoperability Standards
The Interoperability Ecosystem
Uses of Information Exchange
Workflow
On September 15th a preparatory call for the National Action Agenda workgroup leads and co-leads was held.
Agenda topics included:
• Introductions
• Overview of the goals, objectives and logistics of the NAA and workgroups
• Orientation to the process
Healthcare organizations setting out on a social determinants of health program must rely on community partners to effectively meet patient needs.
Read more…COVID-19 has shown the importance of patient matching, but gathering patient data from all ethnicities is not a simple matter.
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Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street. It invites depression and illness, compels families to move into degrading housing in dangerous neighborhoods, uproots communities, and harms children. Eviction rev
Read more…Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an agency order temporarily halting residential evictions for nonpayment of rent due to COVID-19 through the end of 2020. This unprecedented action, which includes no provisions a
Read more…The Rural Action Plan provides a description of the current rural health care and human services landscape, particularly the challenges rural individuals and communities face in accessing and financing health care and human services. The characterist
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The past five years has seen a substantial increase in initiatives and activities that foster community-level multisector collaboration to advance population health. The rise in awareness of how social determinants drive health outcomes, advan
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Provider organizations are increasingly held accountable for health care spending in vulnerable populations. Longitudinal data on health care spending and use among people experiencing episodes of homelessness could inform the design of alt
Read more…ZeOmega and Center for Open Data Enterprise (CODE) recently partnered together and created a white paper and shared their goal to "present a new approach to improving population health outcomes by applying public and proprietary data sources to the i
Read more…In the report titled, "Data sharing and the law: Overcoming health care sector barriers to sharing data on social determinants," authors take a look at how healthcare organizations can exchange personal information outside of the healthcare sector an
Read more…This project examined current collaborations between housing providers and health care providers. Recent delivery system reforms have provided new or expanded opportunities at the state, local, and organizational level to forge collaborations between
Read more…The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Culture of Health Program is proud to present a model for developing Community-Driven Health Equity Action Plans. The NAM piloted the model in collaboration with five diverse communities across the United States
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Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age that shape health. This brief provides an overview of social determinants of health and emerging initiatives to address them. It shows:
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Healthy People identifies public health priorities to help individuals, organizations, and communities across the United States improve health and well-being. Healthy People 2030, the initiative’s fifth iteration, builds on knowledge gained ov
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Senior citizens are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is due in large part to the fact that the risk of severe illness (e.g. hospitalization, intensive care, need for a ventilator or death) increases with age. As a re
Read more…Community Care Cooperative’s (C3’s) unique accountable care organization (ACO) model enables population health management to overcome the social determinants of health needs of their patients.
Christina Severin, MPH, president and chief executive off
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