17 Feb 2023

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing many industries, including healthcare. One area where AI is making a significant impact is population health. Population health focuses on improving the health outcomes of entire populations, rather than just individual patients. AI can assist in this mission by providing valuable insights into healthcare trends, identifying at-risk populat...
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10 Feb 2023

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When Colin Hung reaches out and invites me to HITMC, I go. This was my first time at this conference, which was its 10th year (Congratulations!! ), and quite the event.  I found the sessions to be informative and the networking was great. The keynote presentation by D.J. Vance, the author of The Warrior Within was invigorating; and I was taking notes as he spoke. He got us all to cons...
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08 Feb 2023

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I decided to check out the latest in AI and establish an account at ChatGPT. Easy enough to do, so I logged in and asked the following question: What are the steps to develop a population health program? and here was the answer: Developing a population health program involves several steps, including: Conduct a needs assessment: This involves analyzing the health need...
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01 Apr 2022

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It was truly fantastic to attend HIMSS 22 in Orlando.  I thought the conference was very well done. This year's focus was entitled re-imagine Healthcare and it seemed everyone was talking "transformation". While that's a great buzzword for healthcare and much in need, I did not see much that appeared transformative.  Much of what I saw was iterative building on prior initiatives. Of c...
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05 Jan 2022

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This piece was written just before the holidays...   Two Years Out: The 6 Vs of COVID-19 It’s now been six months since One Year Out: The 5 Ds of COVID-19 was published and we are nearly two years into the pandemic.  While the original 5 D’s have stayed the same, well, sort of, in fact, we have more Deaths, Disparities, new Disinformation, new Discovery and we still Don’t K...
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22 Nov 2021

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Very much enjoyed conducting a panel entitled AMCP Talks: Best Practices in Addressing Health Disparities as well as a COVID Roundtable at AMCP NEXUS 2021, you can watch a short video of the conference here: Hope to see you at the next one....
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15 Oct 2021

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In March of this year, I participated in the AMCP Partnership Forum: Racial health disparities—a closer look at benefit design. Focusing on "...potential sources of racial health disparities and inequities in benefit design because these are primary drivers of medication use", this 2-day event included over 40 leaders from across the healthcare spectrum and was a profoundly interesting a...
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21 Sep 2021

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The virus struck and it struck, again and again, wave after wave, First the elderly, then the middle-aged, on to those younger and finally the children It was indiscriminate and discriminate at the same time Initially, all were at risk, but as it spread it hurt some communities more than others, Those living in the lower socioeconomic groups, minorities, the disadvantaged wer...
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11 Sep 2021

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[video width="1280" height="720" mp4="https://www.accountablehealthllc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/The-Pandemic-The-People-and-The-Henchmen-720P.mp4"][/video] The Pandemic, the People and the Henchmen Through the tirade of thoughts thrown out on endless communication platforms, a voice emerges Temper tantrums of, ignorance, selfishness, threats, and stupidity bombard the system i...
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