Search Tag: health equity
2024 19 Mar
The HIMSS Global Health Conference & Exhibition highlighted Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a central theme, emphasising its potential to revolutionise healthcare by detecting diseases earlier and improving outcomes. However, alongside excitement about AI's possibilities, concerns were raised by healthcare leaders regarding the potential exacerbation...Read more
2024 21 Feb
Statement by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe. My professional involvement with HIV goes back 30 years, to 1994 when I joined MSF-Belgium working on TB and HIV in Somalia. The world was a very different place; an HIV diagnosis was practically a death sentence, getting tested was a lengthy ordeal and treatment...Read more
2024 16 Feb
In a recent announcement, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, Chief Health Officer at Google, and Monica Bharel, Clinical Lead in Public Health, have been honoured as Public Health Champions by the prestigious Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Karen DeSalvo: Leading the Charge for Health Equity A distinguished alumna of Harvard Chan, Dr....Read more
2023 28 Mar
Hospitals that invest in community health equity – eliminating disparities in health and the factors that contribute to the exclusion of groups – can boost the financial performance and organisational culture of hospitals. The study, published in NEJM Catalyst, pointed out that “by emphasizing health, not just health care, leaders of these hospitals...Read more
2022 11 Aug
Maria Romano, MSN, NP-C, vice president of health equity and medical informatics at Premise Health, recently was elected to serve as a board member on the Epic Advisory Steering Board dedicated to conversations about the social determinants of health. Social determinants of health are the conditions in the environments where people are born, live, work,...Read more