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Children’s COVID-19 Vaccine: A Key to Protecting Pediatric Asthma Patients

HIT Consultant

What Has Everyone Excited about COVID-19 Vaccines for 5-11-year-olds? With the rollout this month of the COVID-19 vaccine for those 5-11 years of age, we can now directly protect children with asthma for whom COVID-19 infection is an even bigger hazard for our children during the pandemic.

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Unlocking the mRNA Platform Technology: Walking the Talk with Investment Protection

Bill of Health

By Aparajita Lath Two articles published last month in the BMJ analyze the public investment and financing of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, highlighting the extensive government funding that has supported the development of mRNA technology from 1985 to 2022. government substantially de-risking the vaccine development process.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

Within just a couple of months of COVID-19 emerging in America, it became clear that health disparities were evident in outcomes due to complications from the coronavirus. The rate of vaccinations against the coronavirus, too, significantly varied by race and ethnicity as of March 11, 2021. In the U.S., population). population).

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Targeted analytics help Canadian healthcare groups combat homelessness, boost SDOH

Healthcare It News

" That all changed in late 2019 when the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) released a sizable expression of interest funding contribution, to which the Labatt Family School of Nursing decided to apply and propose a two-armed study to explore homelessness in Canada using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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State of Healthcare IT/EHR Staffing in a World with COVID-19

HIT Consultant

After a year dominated by COVID-19, and even with the rising challenges of the delta variant, Healthcare IT staffing is rebounding. To complicate matters more, the rising number of vaccine mandates across hospital systems has the potential to put the entire industry in a serious bind. hospitals have announced vaccine mandates.

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IT execs talk new strategies for analytics, patient engagement, telehealth and more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

might be finally turning a corner in the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall, the COVID-19 pandemic has catapulted the importance of data analytics and data in general, said Lupu of Sanford Health. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said recently that the U.S. " Dr. Roxana Lupu, Sanford Health.

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Milwaukee County Addresses Health Equity with Data and GIS Technology

Healthcare IT Today

During the COVID-19 pandemic they cross referenced vaccination rates with the CDC’s social vulnerability index and plotted the results using Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. On May 20, 2019, Milwaukee County became the first governing board in the US to pass a resolution declaring racism as a public health crisis.