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May 3, 2023 / By Melissa Clarke, MD, Courtney Howell-McAnelly
I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Chief Population Officer Dr. Melissa Clarke to talk about her recent experience at the 2023 HIMSS conference, including insight on health equity, […]
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May 1, 2023 / By Yichen Zhang, PhD, Dawn Weimar, RN
In 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new roadmap urging states to address equity and social determinants of health (SDoH) to improve outcomes. Many state […]
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Jan. 23, 2023 / By Melissa Clarke, MD
In part one of this series, I talked about how value-based care can allow for greater flexibility in services, while providing accountability for sustainable population health improvements. In part two, […]
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Nov. 28, 2022 / By Melissa Clarke, MD
I was recently interviewed for an Inside Angle blog post on population health and its potential impact on physician burnout. In this post, I will address how the move toward […]
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Oct. 10, 2022 / By Melissa Clarke, MD
It has been almost 20 years since the 2003 Institute of Medicine report, “Unequal Treatment, Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care,” which documents the evidence that race and […]
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Aug. 17, 2022 / By Amanda Steffon, Precious Porter, RN, BSN
In part one, I sat down with Amanda Steffon to talk about gaps and opportunities related to social determinants of health (SDoH). For the second part of the interview, we […]
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Aug. 15, 2022 / By Amanda Steffon, Precious Porter, RN, BSN
I sat down with Amanda Steffon, project manager and member of the 3M clinical terminology team to talk about social determinants of health and the role they play in our […]
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Aug. 3, 2022 / By Steve Delaronde
Thinking outside the box has become a truism. It is meant to convey creativity and thinking beyond the obvious. Yet boxes serve a purpose. When we categorize and classify people […]
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July 13, 2022 / By Steve Cantwell
In February 2022, the world lost one of its greatest health care innovators. Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health (PIH), died at 62 years old, after a lifetime […]
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July 11, 2022 / By Kelli Christman, Melissa Clarke, MD
I sat down with 3M Health Information Systems Senior Medical Director of Health Care Transformation and Health Equity Dr. Melissa Clarke to talk about population health and how, through technology, […]
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July 6, 2022 / By Amanda Steffon
Pearl S. Buck, Pulitzer and Noble Prize-winning novelist, said “The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.” How we care for those […]
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March 18, 2022 / By Rhonda Butler
The March ICD-10 Coordination and Maintenance Committee (C&M) meeting, held via Zoom March 8 and 9, had 60 topics on the combined agenda—29 topics for proposed changes to the procedure […]