Population Health
This week's top stories include the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg and what that could mean for the Affordable Care Act, femtech companies calling out Facebook and the emergence of social informatics.
Dr. Pam Hoffman, medical director of telehealth services at Yale New Haven Health Services and Yale Medicine, says telehealth became a service that required a "clinical champion" to a necessary part of the health system's offerings.
Nigel Hughes, scientific director RWD/RWE at Janssen Research and Development, says the pandemic presented both challenges and opportunities for real-world data generation surrounding scale, privacy and ethics.
State and community leadership is needed to reach out to families to assure them it's safe to seek medical care for children, Verma says.
The amount of funding each jurisdiction receives will be based on its population size.
Dr. Eric J. Rubin, editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, discusses the challenges of maintaining rigorous editorial and medical standards while also exploring new ideas and concepts during COVID-19.
Readmission risk decreased about 3% for Black patients, and stayed roughly the same for Hispanic and white patients.
Solution expands access to on-demand mental health coaching, virtual therapy and virtual psychiatry.
NHSx CEO Matthew Gould discusses how metrics about bed capacity, patient condition and shortages helped organize the health system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The findings point to fundamental inequalities in nursing homes resulting from segregated facilities.