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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

With a PhD background in AI and machine learning, he has helped grow its electronic health record into an integrated platform. He earned a HIMSS Davies Award of Excellence in 2018. CIO and CMIO, Monument Health. As both CIO and CMIO at Monument Health, Lahr is working to change the way rural healthcare is delivered.

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How the VA Uses Synthetic Data to Predict Veterans’ Suicide Risk

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Josh Rubel, CCO, MDClone Suicide is a major public health crisis in America, resulting in one death every 11 minutes, on average. For example, in each year from 2001 through 2020, age- and sex-adjusted suicide rates of veterans exceeded those of non-veteran U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Judge Takes Aim at the Affordable Care Act’s Preventive Care Benefits

Kaiser Health News

The same federal judge in Texas who tried — unsuccessfully — to strike down the entire Affordable Care Act in 2018 has ruled that portions of the health law’s preventive care benefit package are unconstitutional. to fund more efforts for public health preparedness. Meanwhile, the U.S. Patty Murray (D-Wash.)