Population Health

Costs are impacted both in the immediate aftermath of a gun violence incident and in the long term due to the physical and mental toll it causes.

Equitable Breakthroughs in Medicine Development will get more underrepresented patients involved in the R&D of medical treatments.

The number of mass shooting incidents has been increasing in recent years, rising nearly 40% from 2019 to 2021.

The new order will begin arriving at the SNS in 2023, bringing the available supply of vaccine to treat monkeypox to nearly 7 million doses.

UHC frames the move as a push to reduce the burden of medical costs for consumers and to encourage better medication adherence.

Hannah Galvin, MD, chief medical information officer at Cambridge Health Alliance, discusses implementing patient privacy, interoperability and health equity by balancing granular data segmentation and patient-driven consent-management tools.  

Simon Bolton, CEO at NHS Digital, explains a new program to improve the digital capabilities of hospital trusts, and how to take people with you in its realization.

The focus is on improving access to care for underserved communities, including rural and socially vulnerable counties, children and adolescents.

The administration said this week that pharmacies are prohibited under law from discriminating based on race, sex, age and disability.

Mayo Clinic Laboratories expects to be able to perform up to 10,000 tests per week, and can accept specimens from anywhere in the country.