Tag: general health information

WHO report reveals gender inequalities at the root of global crisis in health and care work

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`A new report published by the World Health Organization (WHO), “Fair share for health and care: gender and the undervaluation of health and care work” illustrates how gender inequalities in health and care work negatively impact women, health systems and health outcomes . The report outlines underinvestment in health systems results in a vicious cycle of unpaid health and care work, lowering women’s participation in paid labor markets, harming women’s economic empowerment and hampering gender equality. Women comprise 67% of the paid global health and care workforce. In addition to this paid work, it has been estimated that women perform…
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CDC and ONC work together to strengthen public health data infrastructure

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ORLANDO – Since its inception, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has “defined physics to a certain degree,” moving both “fast and slow at the same time,” said Steve Posnack, deputy national coordinator for health IT, as he opened a thought leadership session Tuesday at HIMSS24 that featured Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control, and focused on the nexus of healthcare IT and public health. “To know what our future looks like, we have to respect and understand how much progress we’ve made over the past 20 years, which I’ve played a large…
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European Commission and WHO/Europe sign €12 million agreement to strengthen health information systems and improve health data governance and interoperability in Europe

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WHO/Europe and the European Commission have embarked on an ambitious new partnership to strengthen health information systems and improve health data governance and interoperability in the WHO European Region. The €12 million project, funded by the European Commission, will support health-care services for the nearly 1 billion people living across the 53 countries in the Region. Harnessing health data This 4-year project aims to improve the use and reuse of health data by health-care providers, policy-makers and patients, and to enhance the quality and interoperability of health information systems. For these purposes, WHO/Europe and the European Commission will develop and…
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Diving into the LISTEN Initiative

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Hedy Tung Through the LISTEN Initiative, Akiko Iwasaki and Harlan Krumholz are collaborating with long-covid patients to identify prominent yet underrecognized long-covid symptoms. Iwasaki, an immunobiology professor at the School of Medicine, and Krumholz, a cardiology professor at the School of Medicine, founded the project in 2022. The LISTEN Initiative, which stands for Listen to Immune, Symptom and Treatment Experiences Now, works with enrolled patients in Hugo Health, a program founded by Krumholz that allows individuals to centralize their healthcare information — from their medical history to data from their personal wearables, such as smartwatches. Once patients with long-COVID symptoms…
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