Population Health

HealthcareITNews takes this month to celebrate the contributions from digital tech leaders across the UK and Europe, while also reflecting on why black patients are more likely than white patients to use digital health tech 

A new report from the Center for Health Information and Analysis examines the readmission patterns for patients discharged from Massachusetts acute care hospitals.            

Such a regulation would assist providers with implementing medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder in the longer term.

A few months ago, who would have thought that going into a hospital or clinic to meet with your doctor would be considered a high-risk experience? And yet, here we are.

Nonprofit leaders hope that researchers will be able to use the platform to share and access currently siloed patient information.

As Black History Month comes to close, will this mean that the achievements and contribution of Black people in the UK and the need to take action will be packed away for another year, asks Dr Shera Chok, co-founder of the Shuri Network.

Even as massive resources have been marshaled to quickly develop new tools, the pandemic still disproportionately affects the populations who may not have access to them.

CareLinx clients can turn to Doctor On Demand clinicians for acute issues such as infections or chronic care management.  

French health officials have called it an "enriched" version of the previous app, StopCovid.

This week's top stories include a push for a stronger focus on population health to improve health disparities, while drops in admissions put a financial squeeze on smaller and rural hospitals in particular.