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Promoting Health Equity through Telehealth Policy
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About this Blog Series Growing up in California, Mei Kwong, JD, dreamed of becoming a singer or an actress, but never planned on becoming an attorney, much less a nationally…
Engaging Journalists and Future Clinicians to Disseminate PCORI-Funded Study Results
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PCORI’s portfolio of funded research projects is home to more than 700 patient-centered outcomes research/comparative clinical effectiveness research (PCOR/CER) studies aiming to generate important evidence about health conditions and treatment…
Reducing Health Inequities One Word at a Time
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At least 350 languages are spoken in the United States—a country that more than 44 million immigrants now call home. But when it comes to health care in their new…
PCORI Researchers Are Answering Rapidly Emerging Questions about Telehealth
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Telehealth—the use of digital information and communication technologies, such as computers and mobile devices, to access health care services remotely and manage health care—has grown in promise as technology has…
PCORI-Funded Projects Aim to Use Telehealth to Address Disparities
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As Americans’ use of cell phones and the internet have increased rapidly, clinicians and researchers have realized that telehealth may help people better manage their health. Telehealth, which involves clinicians…
Engaging Clinicians in Patient-Centered Research
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Doing patient-centered research involves more people than simply patients and researchers. Many studies include clinical staff: physicians, nurses, physician assistants, administrators, and others. They can make research protocols relevant to…
In the Navajo Nation, a Focus on Health Data
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Native Americans have the highest rate of diabetes of all US racial and ethnic groups. Around 16 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native adults have been diagnosed with that…