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Charting a Course for an Equity-Centered Data System: Recommendations from the National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems

Seven Ways Business Can Align with Public Health for Bold Action and Innovation

This report presents seven practical steps that businesses can take to strengthen partnerships and improve the health of their employees, communities, and the nation. With support from the de Beaumont Foundation, these recommendations were informed b

Ready or Not,2021: PROTECTING THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH FROM DISEASES, DISASTERS, AND BIOTERRORISM

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The Ready or Not report series provides an annual assessment of states’ level of readiness to respond to public health emergencies. It recommends policy actions to ensure that everyone’s health is protected during such events. This 2021 editio

Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model Evaluation

Introduction:

In 2017, the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) launched the Accountable Health Communities (AHC) Model to test whether connecting Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries to community resources can improve health

How Legal Changes in Response to COVID-19 Can Improve Access to Community Behavioral Health

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The COVID-19 pandemic has created immense challenges for California’s community-based behavioral health care system and the people it serves. Traditional in-person service models for mental health and substance use disorders (SUDs)

340B Hospitals in Pursuit of Health Equity: Best Practices from the Field

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340B Health has released a new report on health equity profiling nine of the leading safety-net hospitals and health systems that are working for the betterment of the communities they serve. The report highlights different ways that 340B Hosp

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy

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The purpose of the strategy, the overview explains before going into detail, is to “set forth an approach and focus areas intended to encourage and enable Department-wide familiarity, comfort, and fluency with AI technology and its potential (

Community Health and Economic Prosperity Engaging Businesses as Stewards and Stakeholders— A Report of the Surgeon General

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HHS released a report on Community Health and Economic Prosperity: Engaging Businesses as Stewards and Stakeholders - A Report of the Surgeon General, which aims to raise awareness of the U.S. health disadvantage and demonstrates to business l

Trends in EMR Interoperability

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The rate of provider organizations achieving deep interoperability has doubled since 2017. The overall rate leaves much to be desired, but signs of progress are visible. Thanks to connections to national networks and more proactive vendor supp

Silo Busting: The Challenges and Success Factors for Sharing Intergovernmental Data

Executive summary:

The work of knitting together large government data systems so that they seamlessly connect and provide customer-friendly services to the public is difficult yet achievable and valuable. If this type of data sharing was easy, every

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Data Summary & Trends Report: 2009-2019

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report uses YRBS data from 2009 to 2019 to focus on four priority focus areas associated with STDs, including HIV, and unintended teen pregnancy:

• Sexual Behavior
• High-Risk Substance Use
• Experienci

Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations

Snapshot of LGBTQI+ Well-Being:

• Legal System — While legal reforms have improved quality of life for many, discrimination against and mistreatment of LGBTQI+ individuals remain common. Laws vary greatly among states on issues such as gender markers