Executive Summary:
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
The 10 Essential Public Health Services provide a framework for public health to protect and promote the health of all people in all communities. To achieve equity, the Essential Public Health Services actively promote policies, systems, and overall
Read more…Healthcare organizations setting out on a social determinants of health program must rely on community partners to effectively meet patient needs.
Read more…Healthcare organizations setting out on a social determinants of health program must rely on community partners to effectively meet patient needs.
Read more…Human reviewers could identify roughly 70 percent more patients with an opioid use disorder (OUD) than an EHR algorithm.
Read more…COVID-19 has shown the importance of patient matching, but gathering patient data from all ethnicities is not a simple matter.
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…A passion for providing substance abuse care and patient advocacy at Highmark Health has created a movement to empower reform around the opioids epidemic.
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
Read more…Released by The Social Progress Imperitive, the 2020 Social Progress Index results, which provide a comprehensive picture of the lived experience of more than 7 billion people across 163 countries. For the first time ever, the index measures social p
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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
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