What if there was a public health problem so big that even public health leaders were too enmeshed in its grip to be able to warn against its perils? I worry that we are in that very conundrum with regard to our relationship with technology. It has accelerated from being part of our world to… Read More »
To be at the intersection of technology and product development in a field as ripe for disruption as healthcare couldn’t be more opportune. But how can we use technology to improve community health, especially after COVID-19? Technology and Health: A Budding Relationship On April 10th 2020 the Apple-Google partnership announced a notification tool for contact tracing to support… Read More »
Blockchain use is usually associated with the finance industry, but the healthcare industry is actually outpacing finance’s adoption [pdf]. There are so many opportunities for blockchain in healthcare that some cite it as the perfect use case. In this two-part blog post, we will describe the implications of blockchain-based health information technology from the patient,… Read More »
Health and health care disparities are frustratingly persistent. This is widely known, in great part, because of the landmark report Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care that then spurred the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to track and report on disparities for 250 measures since the early 2000s. The… Read More »
In a graduate course this semester (at the Temple University College of Public Health) on Healthcare Quality and Safety, one of the assignments is to explore the internet to learn about how consumers/patients without specific healthcare knowledge might get information on quality of care. When students enter “consumer healthcare information” in Google, the first result… Read More »