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Experts showcase digital health solutions that help tackle COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But using these technologies has also brought regulatory and privacy challenges and has consequences on the global healthcare systems and citizens. But using these technologies has also brought regulatory and privacy challenges and has consequences on the global healthcare systems and citizens. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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CIOs at children's hospitals share lessons from a year of turmoil

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., creating all kinds of chaos for CIOs and other health IT leaders to contend with. This latest feature story has a special focus: children's hospitals.

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Ethics for AI in Health – A View From The World Health Organization

Jane Sarashon

For health care, AI can benefit diagnosis and clinical care, address paperwork and bureaucratic duplication and waste, accelerate scientific research, and personalize health care direct-to-patients and -caregivers.

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HIMSS22 in Riyadh: Exploring cross-border collaboration in the Middle East

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

An expert panel will gather during the first day of the event to discuss how digital health can be improved via cross-border collaborations. Speakers will also be touching upon cross-border health policy implementation, and the challenges and facilitators that have contributed to successful collaboration between territories.

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Perhaps the best definition of patient safety is that of the World Health Organization. Simply put, it is “…the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care.” Improving health literacy. In fact, low health literacy is related to higher mortality rates.

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The Biggest Threat to Our Health Isn’t the Next Pandemic or Cancer…It’s Climate Change

Health Populi

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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Trust Is a Key Social Currency for COVID-Embattled Consumers

Health Populi

Combine these new life-flows with conflicting information about the nature, severity, and life-span of COVID-19: From three levels of government leaders: The President and the Executive Branch at the Federal Level, Governors of States, and Mayors of cities; Public health agencies, especially the U.S. How do health care providers build trust?

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