Search Tag: community health

Executive Health Management

Community-health-information-exchange-reduces-likelihood-of-re-hospitalisations-and-emergency-visits

2023 10 Feb

A team of researchers conducted a study to assess whether primary care physicians who used a community health information exchange were able to improve patient care transitions, from hospitalisation to outpatient care.   Electronic health records (EHRs) are available to enhance coordination and efficiency of care, but several issues have made...Read more

Executive Health Management

Imperatives-for-rebuilding-european-healthcare-systems-post-covid-19

2020 11 May

How European healthcare systems can rebuild in the post-COVID-19 era. The COVID-19 crisis has laid bare the very foundation on which the European healthcare system is based. So many revelations, so many regrets. To bring this into perspective, let us look at some hard numbers. At the time of writing this article, the novel coronavirus had infected...Read more

Executive Health Management

Lost-funding-threatens-training-of-primary-care-physicians-in-shortage-areas

2015 03 Mar

A new report estimates that the defunding of medical residency training programs in underserved areas of the United States will affect millions of patients who do not have easy access to primary care physicians. Researchers from the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health warn that discontinued support for the Teaching...Read more

IT Management

Twitter-language-predicts-community-heart-health

2015 30 Jan

The dynamic relationship between healthcare and social media may soon emphasise the ways in which social media tools track psychological measures of community health. A new study which appears in Psychological Science claims that emotional aspects of language used on Twitter can predict coronary heart disease “significantly better” than a standard...Read more