Population Health

The average wait time for a specialist appointment across healthcare can be well over three months, but volunteers on this FQHC-focused initiative usually respond in less than 10 hours. Timely access to specialty care impacts health outcomes.

Indonesia is poised to reap unique benefits from building FHIR into its SatuSehat platform, says Dr Russell Leftwich, senior clinical advisor of interoperability for InterSystems.

As part of the landmark Australian Cancer Plan, the framework seeks to improve the accessibility, consistency, and comprehensiveness of cancer data.

Also, Indonesia's Ministry of Health has launched an online portal for accessing population health data.

Marci Bennafield, clinical instructor at Georgia State University's health informatics program, explains that, with 97% of American adults now owning a cell phone, there are more ways to intervene in health issues and lower disparities.

The chapter looks at how individuals are engaging with their care to incorporate the patient's perspective into health equity initiatives.

Dr. Michael Poku, chief clinical officer at Equality Health, talks tech needed to successfully tackle inequity, the benefits of investment in independent primary care physicians and how providers can work on the costs of health inequities.

By integrating a patient portal screening tool into the clinical workflow, Tufts University researchers aim to advance the use of HIT to identify food-insecure and nutrition-insecure patients and pave the way to interventions like nutrition prescriptions.