Population and Public Health

If the vaccine candidates stay on track, an approved vaccine could hit the market by early 2021 or sooner.

This week's top stories include a push for a stronger focus on population health to improve health disparities, a drop in hospital admissions, and Borderlands 3's use of its millions of gamers to help map the human gut microbiome.

The challenge, which officially launches in January 2021, was announced this week during HIMSS’ Health Equity Week.

WHO infographics and other resources will now be available on Wikimedia outlets. 

Alliance for Better Health CEO Dr. Jacob Reider talks about the data and IT demands of coordinating social determinants of health efforts – and the imperative to serve underserved communities, where effects from the COVID-19 pandemic will be felt for a long time.

To support health equity, Congress must expand access to telehealth, explains Terri Ripley, chair of the HIMSS Public Policy Committee.

This week's top stories include Cue expecting to deliver six million COVID-19 molecular tests by March, while surging costs and revenue loss force hospitals to rely on support from county governments.

Dr. Art Papier, CEO of VisualDx, and Dr. Nada Elbuluk, the company's director of clinical impact, discuss the longstanding need to improve quality of care for people of color.

The San Diego startup will deliver six million rapid molecular test kits to the government by March 2021. 

Deep Dive: Advocates, lawmakers and HIMSS Global Health Equity Network leaders talk about the disparities in maternal mortality and access to care among Black women, as well as the actions they're taking to address these social determinants of health.