What You Should Know: – Today, the American Health Information Management Association® (AHIMA) unveiled its groundbreaking initiative, Data for Better Health™, at its annual conference, AHIMA23, in Baltimore, MD. – The Data for Better…
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Homelessness is a complex and challenging phenomenon, not just in the U.S. but across its neighbor to the north: It has been estimated that anywhere from 100,000 to 300,000 individuals experience homelessness in a…
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New tools from the American Telemedicine Association can help assess a community’s digital infrastructure and estimate the cost of telehealth-based clinical or social interventions to show how virtual care can impact healthcare disparities.WHY IT…
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Michael Pattwell, Principal Business Advisor, Value-Based Care, Edifecs
While the need to address social determinants of health (SDOH) is definitely not new, 2023 marks the first year SDOH is codified into national and statewide value-based…
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Get a glimpse of the healthcare IT research KLAS published during the month of August. All the insights KLAS uses come from the anonymous feedback of thousands of healthcare professionals using healthcare IT solutions…
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By Hannah Nelson
September 08, 2023 – South Dakota’s Department of Health (DOH) has awarded a contract to health IT vendor findhelp to build a statewide community information exchange (CIE).
The platform will connect South Dakotans in need…
By Sara Heath
August 31, 2023 – Rural healthcare organizations excel at addressing social determinants of health despite the barriers blocking patient care access, a new University of Missouri study found.
Overall, hospitals and health systems serving…
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We can reinvent medicine by taking a more active role in fixing these barriers to good patient care, and by developing the digital tools to improve early detection of disease.
By John Halamka, M.D., president,…
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AI-driven NLP models effectively extract social determinant data from clinical notes, as demonstrated by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University collaboration. Analyzing over six million clinical notes, their adaptable system identifies housing and financial…
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A study by the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University has demonstrated the potential of using natural language processing technology to extract social risk factor information from clinical notes.The NLP system developed by the research…
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