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The disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color in the United States and immense vulnerabilities in lower-income countries has revealed a global health reality that is often overshadowed by decades of progress in overall glo
Read more…The University of Pennsylvania's Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy (AISP) released a tool kit that provides a model for integrating data with an intentional focus on racial equity.
Summary:
Data sharing and integration commonly drives decisio
Read more…The Opioid Crisis and the Hispanic/Latino Poplution issue brief presents data on prevalence of opioid misuse & death rates in the Hispanic/Latino population; contextual factors & challenges to prevention & treatment; innovative outreach & engagement
Read more…The Public Health Alliance of Southern California developed an interactive COVID-19 HPI Resource Map to assist in the efforts that local leaders, school, government agencies, and foundations are making to help vulnerable communities.
The map was relea
Read more…The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recently released a road map that includes numerous evidence-based actions that would assist in the approach to how the United States tackles COVID-19, both immediate and in the long-term.
Preamble:
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Read more…With everything going on in the world right now, the DecisionData.org team realized that people seeking rehab may be struggling to get help. They decided to create a page that covers everything needed to know about online rehab so people can still fi
Read more…Health systems are ever-changing for different reasons. In the publication titled "The Value of Health Policy" the authors explain how developing and adopting a policy is an approach that can assist in managing these changes.
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Health systems a
Read more…COVID-19 is making an impact across the globe on many different levels. People are concerned about the economy, employment, access to food and many other things. Something that continues to stand out is how this pandemic is taking a toll on mental he
Read more…In this paper titled, "Patient and Family Engaged Care: An Essential Element of Health Equity" the authors discuss how health equity is an ever emerging important topic that needs to be addressed by health care organizations and professionals. Althou
Read more…In the new 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 secto
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The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) represents the world’s leading academic general internists, dedicated to creating a just system of care in which all people can achieve optimal health. SGIM recognizes that to achieve this visi
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In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, data has never been more salient. COVID has generated new data demands and increased cross-sector data collaboration. Yet, these data collaborations require careful planning and evaluation of risks and
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The Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patient Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE) is a nationally recognized standardized protocol that goes beyond medical acuity to account for patients’ social determinants of health (SDH). Aims
Read more…The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) recently released an issue brief that provides “principles aimed at guiding the efforts of state and local officials to create an equitable and lasting post-pandemic recovery.” The principles shared by RWJF i
Read more…HSLynk is a human services platform developed by ServingLynk, Inc. in conjunction with a community of third-party developers and users. Pay-per-use hosting is offered at http://hslynk.com. The docs, wiki, and issue tracker are all located at: https:/
Read more…Project Unify recently participated in an Interoperability Insights webinar titled "From Indiana to the National Accelerators: COVID-19 and Interoperability for a Better Path Forward." The group shared an overview of Project Unify, including the purp
Read more…A research team from the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy released a report that provides steps to improving interoperability and exchange of key data as it relates to COVID-19 containment.
The workgroup that developed this report was guided by
Read more…"The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), in partnership with the MITRE Corporation and OCHIN, developed a SMART on FHIR app that serves as a dashboard or summary for managing chronic pain and pain-related treatment within the electroni
Read more…"In 2016, AHRQ launched a program of grants and contracts aimed at helping health care providers move patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) evidence into practice through clinical decision support (CDS). AHRQ advances the science of CDS by suppor
Read more…This noninvasive nonpharmacological therapy review compares noninvasive nonpharmacological therapies with placebo, exercise or nonopioid drugs for the most common musculoskeletal chronic pain conditions. AHRQ shared that the purpose of this review is
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