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How home-based AI can reduce health inequities in underserved communities [PODCAST]

KevinMD

.” The conversation highlights that while the future of health care delivery is moving into patients’ homes, this shift risks leaving the most vulnerable Read more… How home-based AI can reduce health inequities in underserved communities [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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An Innovative Approach to Enhancing Community Health Collaborations: A Community Engagement Directory [Participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context UT Southwestern utilizes community engagement strategies to improve health and integrate stakeholder priorities in clinical care and research. However, given the vast size of our medical center, many community engagement initiatives exist in silos and overlap in community areas creating inefficiency, inconsistency, and redundancy.

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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

The plane was piloted by a native of the island, deeply committed to helping his community. What followed was a powerful expression of community and compassion. We offered trauma-informed support and helped newly displaced individuals connect with health and community resources.

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Health Trends Across Communities: Engaging Healthcare Systems, Public Health and Community in a Statewide Public Health Tool [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is an innovative health data surveillance project that provides public health professionals, healthcare systems, researchers, community organizations, and policy makers with robust and timely summary electronic health record (EHR) information to support health equity and improve health across Minnesota.

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COVID-19 wastewater surveillance accurately predicts community infections

Medical Xpress

Published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, a University of Minnesota research team has demonstrated that measuring SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater continues to accurately predict COVID-19 infections in a community.

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Creative Dissemination: Community-Engaged Mural to Disseminate the PORTRAIT Registry on Peripheral Arterial Disease [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Public health initiatives, including community engagement projects, are vital for promoting early diagnosis and encouraging behaviors to combat PAD. A community collaborative mural focused on vascular health. Conclusions The PORTRAIT dissemination project utilized a community-engaged mural to raise awareness about PAD.

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Practice and Community-Level Variations in Primary Care Panel Size [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

We assessed variations in panel size based on community and practice-level characteristics. PCPs practicing in communities with a high Social Deprivation Index (SDI) had smaller panel sizes than those in communities with a low SDI (1554 in quartile 1 vs. 1421 in quartile 4, p<0.01).