Population Health

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.

At a meeting of the agency's Patient Engagement Advisory Committee, officials stressed the necessity of ensuring there's diversity in the data used to train algorithms.

Alliance for Better Health CEO Dr. Jacob Reider discusses the data and IT demands of coordinating SDOH efforts – and the imperative to serve underserved communities, where effects from COVID-19 will be felt long after the pandemic has subsided.

Mental telehealth visits for men are up 79% since January, the telemedicine provider reports, with rates for women not far behind.

Terri Ripley, chair of the HIMSS Public Policy Committee and Virginia HIMSS Chapter Advocate, says to support health equity, Congress must expand telehealth access.

Deep Dive: From Google's AI for mammograms to clinical trial recruitment, digital health is tackling some of the biggest challenges in the breast cancer space.

Experts at a recent HIMSS Global Health Equity Week webinar say that technology can play a role in bridging the care gap, but it can also be used in a harmful context.

The trust is the first in the UK to be validated at the highest level for its EMR capabilities. 

The company says its name is too similar to its CarePort Health subsidiary, and is "highly likely to cause confusion."