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How AI and machine learning can help predict SDOH needs

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Care managers and social workers, working within accountable care organizations, and physician provider networks now incorporate a short series of SDOH interview questions with patients identified as high-risk for poor healthcare outcomes or unnecessary future healthcare expenditures.

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5 Key Challenges Preventing Innovation in Digital Health

HIT Consultant

These demographic trends are causing shifts within the healthcare sector and resulting in increased expenditure associated with the costs of treatment and prevention in old age. Both a lack of clinical engagement and inadequate resources are two often-cited areas that prevent better integration of otherwise promising digital solutions.

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COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

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However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. Public health emergencies aren’t entirely preventable. Emergencies will happen. But when they do, responses that uphold human rights need to be the norm.

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Decolonizing the Pandemic Treaty Through Vaccine Equity

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The goal of such a legal instrument is to enhance the world’s capacity to predict, prevent, detect, assess, and respond to future disease outbreaks. Accountability mechanisms are also imperative to ensure the facility’s effective functioning. This treaty cannot become another agent of the perpetuation of global health’s coloniality.

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Is making mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases profitable?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

The figure below shows that as the Delta and Omicron variants spread in the fall of 2021, COVID-19 vaccines prevented significant number of deaths according to Vox. Despite these positive impacts, a number of political commentators have accused pharmaceutical companies of profiteering. A study by Ahuja et al. A study by Ahuja et al.

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A Shared Responsibility Model

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Engaging parameters,” accountability and benefit , redirect attention from those who experience injustice to those who contribute to or enjoy from the status quo. While the engagement of the UN , WHO , or governments is obvious, the accountability parameter may also engage other stakeholders to sit at the table.

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Mitigating Serious Fall Risks and Associated Costs and Injuries with AI-Driven Motion Sensor Technology

HIT Consultant

According to a study in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society , non-fatal falls cost an estimated $50 billion in medical expenses, while fatal falls account for an estimated $754 million. Due to this fact, the frequency and severity of fall injuries have made prevention a priority.