Population and Public Health
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Dr. Sameer Vohra, director of Illinois Department of Health, explains how the data IDPH has on hand can be used to better understand its communities and improve residents' lives.
It has partnered with Capio S:t Göran Hospital to help analyse 78,000 breast images each year.
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Tim O'Connell, CEO and founder of Emtelligent, talks about Emtelligent's NLP software, which is specially designed to understand medical English, and how it can assist drug companies with finding clinical trial cohorts from patient records.
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Cleveland Clinic’s chief research information officer, Lara Jehi, and Craig Martin, IT product director for population health, discuss how digital tools help clinicians maintain continuity of care for patients with complex health issues.
Dr. Jay Bhatt, managing director at Deloitte, warns that without high-quality algorithms technology has the potential to increase health inequities and drive mistrust.
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Robert Stillman, director of clinical and research informatics at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, discusses the challenges of chairing the Global Health Conference Education Committee for HIMSS23.
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Native Americans' life expectancy is five years lower than the U.S. average. Mitchell Thornbrugh, CIO of the Indian Health Service, talks about the need for a single interoperable medical record to support Native communities’ health equity.
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Stacey Caywood, CEO of Wolters Kluwer Health, discusses how Wolters Kluwer solutions incorporate diversity and inclusivity into the text, images and clinical support sources they provide to help clinicians meet patients’ care needs.
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Dr. Hans Kluge, regional director for Europe at WHO, discusses the need for collaboration between public health workers and technology vendors around the world to improve public trust and health equity.
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Olyvia Phillips, manager of equity initiatives for global healthcare technology incubator MATTER, talks about how Together.health, a consortium of digital health incubators, prioritizes health equity and supports diverse founders.