Population and Public Health
At HIMSS23, Aaron Miri, senior vice president and chief digital and information officer at Baptist Health, discusses the role of digital officers in healthcare.
According to a study published in JAMA, audio-only visits made up one in five primary care visits and two in five behavioral health visits among patients at federally qualified health centers in August 2022.
Medicare beneficiaries who received telehealth services for opioid use disorder during the pandemic had a 33% lower risk of fatal overdose.
During a discussion at ViVE 2023, panelists emphasized the need to interrogate data and know how it could be biased.
Also, Jolly Good has collaborated with Brigham and Women's Hospital to create medical education VR content.
In a post on LinkedIn, Color CEO Othman Laraki said the company would focus on its core lines of business, including testing and telehealth infrastructure for government programs, and its prevention tools for employers and healthcare purchasers.
Lucira's diagnostic is the first over-the-counter at-home combination test for COVID-19 and flu authorized by the FDA.
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The Digital Medicine Society partnered with digital health and pharma players like the FDA, Janssen, GSK, Medable and THREAD to build a toolkit aimed at improving diversity in digital research.
During a panel discussion at Digital Frontiers in Public Health, panelists discussed how the public and private sectors can work together to share data and improve public health.