Population and Public Health

The chair of clinical pharmacy practice details how the organization got, for example, racial/ethnic minorities receiving chemotherapy two times higher likelihood in reporting pain compared with non-Hispanic whites.

The National Medical Register streamlines access to updated information on registered doctors in the country.

Shaikh Khalid AlKhalifa, assistant commander of Bahrain's King Hamad University Hospital, talks about how the country is working with Harvard to build a genome bank that will eventually enable treatments based on patients' genetics.

Luca Chittaro of Italy's University of Udine talks about how immersive virtual reality stories can gamify physical therapy to help distract from pain and encourage patients to increase treatment compliance.

CarrotMatch connects patients to top-tier local community-based healthcare providers while considering social determinants of health.  

Also, the Australian government has invested $6 million in four national health data projects.

Anne Moen of Gravitate-Health says the company wants to work with regulators to help European patients translate prescription information into their language of choice while traveling through the EU.

Here’s how to get the most benefit from machine learning and AI.

Inspired by her mother's healthcare struggles, Dr. Kate Sowerwine now serves as chief medical officer of a virtual care company and advocates for more widespread use of the technologies to improve patient outcomes.

A new automated patient-messaging link with electronic health records is designed to help community health centers address uncontrolled diabetes without increasing the workload of overburdened staff.