population health

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By  Jessica Hagen 01:04 pm May 28, 2024
Syra Health, a healthcare technology company that provides tools to analyze population health, announced it secured another contract this year, this time with the Health Care Authority in Washington state, marking the 20th state the company has contracted with.  Syra will provide behavioral health and recovery training and support services to strengthen the recruitment and retention of Washington...
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By  Jessica Hagen 05:47 pm November 21, 2023
Syra Health, a healthcare technology company that provides tools to analyze population health, announced it signed a five-year $275,000 contract to examine the City of San Antonio's implementation of its Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) project.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) REACH project is a national program administered by the Centers for...
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09:00 am February 16, 2023
A healthcare risk prediction algorithm used on more than 200 million people across the country was found to demonstrate racial bias. One-third of the top 100 hospitals in the U.S. were found to be using a tracking tool called Meta Pixel to collect and send patients’ personal health information to Facebook without their consent. Pulse oximeters – digital products that use infrared light beams to...
By  Adam Ang 12:38 am February 23, 2022
While a number of businesses were scrambling to protect themselves from the profound changes caused by the global pandemic, New Zealand's Orion Health was just in the process of releasing a timely solution that would help support overwhelmed health systems. WHAT IT'S ABOUT The health IT provider had to delist from the bourses of Australia and New Zealand in March 2019 and restructure its business...
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By  Emily Olsen 10:10 am January 28, 2022
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many patients delayed or missed health screenings and visits with providers as they sought to limit their exposure to the virus. According to the CDC, the number of women who received breast cancer screenings through the agency's early detection program declined by 87% in April 2020.  The University of Texas Medical Branch, a safety-net system based in Galveston...
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By  Kat Jercich 05:20 pm January 24, 2022