Population and Public Health
Monica Jones, chief data officer for Health Data Research UK and executive lead for Yorkshire and Humber Care Record, says standardized datasets have required an acceleration of digital transformation and interoperable standards in particular.
Megan Callahan, VP of healthcare at Lyft, details how the ridesharing company responded to new demands as a result of COVID-19.
Professor Claudia Pagliari, director of global eHealth at the University of Edinburgh, says sharing data with local public health authorities will improve management of public health crises while also reducing health inequalities.
Deep Dive: COVID-19 will remain a challenge in 2021, but the vaccines raise hope that progress is being made in the battle with the coronavirus and countries are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.
Activist and "This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism" author Ashton Applewhite discusses some of the complex realities of aging, ageism, ableism and health – and describes how technology should be designed for seniors.
This week's top stories include the vaccine distribution pipeline facing security risks as the UK begins administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, and Google rolling out an app that shows participants how their data is driving health insights.
Ian Slade, chair of the HIMSS Chapter Advocacy Taskforce, says the huge disparity in health literacy is affecting how people navigate the labyrinth of healthcare.
This week's top stories include a push for a stronger focus on population health to improve health disparities, a drop in hospital admissions, and Borderlands 3's use of its millions of gamers to help map the human gut microbiome.
Alliance for Better Health CEO Dr. Jacob Reider talks about the data and IT demands of coordinating social determinants of health efforts – and the imperative to serve underserved communities, where effects from the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for a long time.
To support health equity, Congress must expand access to telehealth, explains Terri Ripley, chair of the HIMSS Public Policy Committee.