Population Health

This week's top stories include the AstraZeneca vaccine showing 79% efficacy but facing questions about using outdated information, Everlywell acquiring PWNHealth, and reports of problems with the VA's new Cerner EHR system.

Tressa Springmann, CIO at LifeBridge Health, describes how her Baltimore-based health system has adapted its EHR and IT systems for complex COVID-19 vaccine scheduling and administration - and how it plans to capitalize on shifting provider-consumer paradigms.

Dr. Uché Blackstock shares the different approaches to achieving true equity in healthcare.

Dr. Azizi Seixas explores why communities of color are at risk of suffering more severe consequences, including secondary ones, from COVID-19.

This week's top stories include a plea from medical groups to increase efforts to collect ethnicity data when administering COVID-19 vaccinations, and Johnson & Johnson and Merck ramping up manufacturing of the vaccine.

Health IT can help manage the mental health and substance abuse disorder crisis that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, says Dr. Nishi Rawat, cofounder of OpenBeds, an addiction treatment connection service.

Iris Frye, founder of Parity HIT, says Black pioneers in the medical field have made digital healthcare innovation possible.

This week's top stories include the ClassPass app providing the most convenient vaccine locations, glitches in New Jersey's Microsoft-powered vaccine registration portal, and insurers wary of the continuing effects of the pandemic.

HIMSS TV contributor, entrepreneur and patient advocate Kate Milliken shares her own story of beating COVID-19.

COVID-19 has created the need for more integrated digital tools, says Mike McSherry, CEO and cofounder of Xealth.