Mental illnesses affect more than 52 million Americans, or about 20 percent of the U.S. adult population, according to the National Institute of...
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Using Analytics to Get a Pulse on the Health of Your Emergency Department
When everything is running as intended, a hospital is like a well-oiled machine. Each department plays a role in keeping the hospital working. But...
How Analytics Can Help Combat the Opioid Epidemic
The statistics are alarming. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since 1999, the number of drug overdose deaths involving...
The Importance of Data Integration Is Front-Page News
For healthcare organizations looking to make a digital transition, often the hardest part is getting the buy-in of hospital leadership....
How States Are Trying to Better Understand the Nuances of Pandemic Data
Despite the best efforts of various agencies and government officials, accurately plotting data from emerging COVID-19 infections remains a much...
What the Data Shows about Omicron
It’s been two years since the onset of COVID-19, and the virus is more prevalent than ever before. The recent outbreak of the Omicron variant has...
What We can Learn from Healthcare Collaboration During the COVID-19 Pandemic
The emergence of the COVID-19 virus presented the world with one of the greatest healthcare challenges ever seen in the modern-era. Devastating...
What the Data Shows about the COVID-19 Delta Variant
News headlines have been recently dominated with reports about the rapid spread of the Delta strain of COVID-19. Many areas are seeing new waves of...
The Future of Telehealth Following the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic revolutionized the delivery of healthcare. Prior to the public health crisis, telehealth was a niche privilege reserved for...
How FQHCs are Helping to Improve Healthcare Equity with COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
The COVID-19 pandemic has officially been in our lives for a full year. Although it’s given us bad news time and time and again, three different...
What You Need to Know About the COVID-19 Vaccine and Data Collection
In recent blog posts, we explored the development of the new COVID-19 vaccines. Now, we have both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines which have already...
The Future of Vaccines Part 2: What You Need to Know About Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine
In part one of “The Future of Vaccines,” we discussed five common misconceptions about the future COVID-19 vaccine and why they were myths. Among...
How Will the 2020 Election Impact Healthcare?
Now that the 2020 election has taken place and President-elect Joe Biden prepares to take office in January, all eyes are on what policy changes...
The Future of Vaccines Part 1: 5 Myths About the COVID-19 Vaccine
1. The COVID-19 vaccine will be ready for distribution by the end of the year The development of a COVID-19 vaccine has been a popular topic of...
COVID-19 in Children and Young Adults Part 2: Teenagers and Young Adults
In part one of “COVID-19 in Children and Young Adults,” we discussed the effects that COVID-19 has had on infants and young children. At the...
COVID-19 in Children and Young Adults Part 1: Infants and Children
We often talk about the effects that COVID-19 has on adults, since that is the age group that tends to be most affected by the virus. But has doing...
The Data Behind Masks and COVID-19
Since nearly the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the CDC has identified three primary tactics that ordinary people can employ in their...
Social Determinants of Health, COVID-19, and Racism in Healthcare: Smarter Healthcare Podcast Episode 8 Takeaways
Racism has been a major societal issue since the beginning of time, and unfortunately, it’s not a thing of the past. Today especially, it’s speaking...
The Value of Data in COVID-19 Contact Tracing
States across the country are now easing lockdown restrictions, increasing the number of interactions people have on a daily basis. In order to...
The Future of Healthcare: How Telehealth Will Change After COVID-19
After almost three months of quarantine and social distancing measures in the U.S., there’s no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively...