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COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Map w/ Dr. John Showalter

There is an urgency to utilize social determinants in healthcare decision making, especially to meet the needs of underserved populations. launched its new , a free, publicly available tool that identifies populations — down to the census block…

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4: COVID-19: Do No Harm

In this episode of Broken Healthcare, we meet a nurse who must balance protecting her job, her patients, and her personal health amid the PPE shortage. We also find out what it’s like to be a patient who needs a potentially life-saving surgery at a time when elective operations have ground to a halt. Is…

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5 – Using Behavioral Research to Understand SDoH Barriers with Matt Swanson

In this episode Revel’s Director of Product Design Matt Swanson joins the show to talk about the role that behavioral research plays in addressing social determinants of health. Key questions Matt answers in this episode include: How are behavioral research and social determinants connected? What insights came out of your research to identify SDoH barriers?…

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4 – The Power of Lived Experience in Addressing SDoH with Adaeze Enekwechi, PhD, MPP

In this episode, Adaeze Enekwechi, PhD, MPP, President at IMPAQ joins the show to discuss the importance of lived experience when talking about social determinants of health. We discuss government programs and policies that challenge SDoH, innovative solutions that stand out, and where we’re headed as an industry.  To connect with Adaeze: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adaeze-enekwechi-phd/  Read…

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Protecting and Extending the Life of PPE with Engineered Controls

An #HCBiz Brief: Given the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) in our hospitals due to COVID-19 and the elevated risks our medical professionals are facing every day, I wanted to share a tool I came across at an infection control…

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Using Opportunity Zones to Drive Substantial Investment in SDOH w/ John Gorman

The incentive is a new community investment tool to encourage long-term investments in low-income urban and rural communities nationwide. is accelerating the health care industry’s ability to deploy underfunded SDOH benefits by leveraging the of…

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