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Grand Rounds January 26, 2024: Advancing the Safe, Effective and Equitable Use of AI in Healthcare (Mark Sendak, MD, MPP; Suresh Balu, MD, MBA)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

DIHI approaches this work through four pillars of innovation: implementation and health delivery science, health technology innovation, leadership and workforce development, and best practices development and dissemination. The Health AI Partnership started with 7 organization partners and has expanded to about 20 organizations.

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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Diversity in clinical trials is important for generalizability of results, to provide equal opportunities, practice precision medicine, tailor practical guidelines, improve public health outcomes, detect potential differences in safety and efficacy, and to address health disparities. CVD is the leading cause of mortality in women.

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Grand Rounds June 16, 2023: BeatPain Utah: Partnering With Community Health Centers Within a Socio-Technical Framework (Julie Fritz, PT, PhD, FAPTA; Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Many of these communities are served by federally qualified health centers that often lack options to provide accessible nonpharmacologic alternatives. Although there is evidence of a significant divide in the implementation of advanced health IT functions, low-resource settings can adopt advanced health IT with some assistance.

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Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K. McCreary, PharmD, BCIDP)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The COVID Therapeutics Committee worked with the state health department to develop a policy for fair allocation of scarce medications to treat COVID-19. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds January 12, 2024: Design and Implementation of a Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce Covid-19 Resources (Erin K.

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Grand Rounds September 23, 2022: Effect Of An Intensive Nurse Home Visiting Program On Adverse Birth Outcomes In A Medicaid-Eligible Population (Margaret McConnell, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Department of Global Health and Population. Chan School of Public Health. This trial took place in South Carolina at a time when Medicare was thinking about how to improve outcomes and if expanding home nursing services could improve health outcomes. Visits were mostly spent on personal health and maternal role topics.

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Grand Rounds August 12, 2022: Equitably Including Diverse Participants in Pragmatic Clinical Trials (Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

for Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence. There are barriers at the health care professional and researcher level. When we say pragmatic = real world do we understand that health care in the real world is unfair, unjust, racist, discriminatory? The social circumstances affect health outcomes. Consuelo H. Key Points.

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WHO update on Omicron

The Pharma Data

1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). WHO’s TAG-VE will continue to monitor and evaluate the data as it becomes available and assess how mutations in Omicron alter the behaviour of the virus. Recommended actions for countries.