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Health Trends Across Communities: a healthcare system-public health collaboration to advance health equity across Minnesota [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is a collaboration of Minnesota healthcare systems and state and local public health that helps fill the gap in community health information by providing timely, detailed, and accessible summary electronic health record (EHR) information and reports. Results: HTAC generated results for 4.6

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How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care

Physician's Weekly

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

“Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.” ” The CDC now recommends RSV vaccination for people 75 and older, and for those 60 to 74 if they’re at higher risk of severe illness (from, say, heart disease).

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. It offers us a path toward reclaiming our time, reducing burnout and ultimately enhancing the care we provide.

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ICU telemedicine programs bring essential critical care to community hospitals

Sound Physicians

Increasingly a valuable option for rural hospitals, tele-ICU provides access to higher acuity care and support to emergency and hospital medicine clinicians who are called to the ICU.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Treating less serious ailments gets faster, more targeted and more efficient, while the means for curing more serious and life-altering illnesses improve. Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

ED providers and radiologists commonly face the scenario of interpreting a CXR in a child with respiratory complaints prompting the questions: Does that infiltrate represent bacterial pneumonia, inflammation, or simply atelectasis? Drivers of CXR overuse are myriad and can be thought of at the system, provider, and patient levels.

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