Population and Public Health
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.
Cue Health awarded $481M for coronavirus testing; public hospitals compounding COVID-19 budget risks
This week's top stories include Cue expecting to deliver six million COVID-19 molecular tests by March, while surging costs and revenue loss force hospitals to rely on support from county governments.
Dr. Art Papier, CEO of VisualDx, and Dr. Nada Elbuluk, the company's director of clinical impact, discuss the longstanding need to improve quality of care for people of color.
Deep Dive: Advocates, lawmakers and HIMSS Global Health Equity Network leaders talk about the disparities in maternal mortality and access to care among Black women, as well as the actions they're taking to address these social determinants of health.