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With analytics and omnichannel strategies like hyper-personalized fotonovelas, providers are leapfrogging over social determinants of health barriers to earn trust, improve patient engagement and close care gaps, says Bob Farrell, CEO of mPulse.

Tom Gillette, CIO of non-profit Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, says artificial intelligence tools raise health equity and support more personalized care in South Florida and Dade County where 60% of the residents speak Spanish.

Surprisingly, researchers found no correlation between department closures and negative outcomes for patients driving greater distances, says Martin Gaynor, professor emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University.

Follow-up appointments, transitional care when there’s the risk of readmission, benefit patients and can be done by telehealth, says Dr. Matthew Thompson, an ER physician and the CEO and cofounder of Telescope Health.

Real-world encounter data shows individuals enrolled in a MA plan are more likely to have a chronic condition than those who sign up for original Medicare, says Inovalon's VP of research science and advanced analytics, Christie Teigland.

Mariatheresa Kadushi, cofounder of the SheHer app, says her diverse global group of female co-founders built the app to empower women to document their experiences and connect digitally with healthcare providers.

Despite rapid technological advances, poor governance and insufficient strategies are stalling global healthcare's digital transformation, says Dr Derya Şahin, OECD AI in Healthcare Expert Group member.

AI reduces the cognitive burden of overseeing multiple chronic conditions and social determinants during 30-minute patient visits with chart summaries that hyper-personalize recommendations, says Lori Walker, Presbyterian Healthcare Services' CMIO.

Hospitals Without Borders is less than a year old, but director of licensing and communications Joan Webley says the organization has already delivered two pediatric clinics that are now being used in Cairo.

Gabriel Garcia-Lopez of the Los Angeles LGBT Center talks about how the center is partnering with Lambda Legal to challenge anti-LGBTQ executive orders, defend access to care for its transgender patients and protect their data.

Dr. Michael Kirchhoff, chief innovation officer at Cooper University Health Care, says the health system launched a social determinants of health hackathon to help solve systemic issues faced by its patient population.

After cancer patient Rahul Mahadevan saw other patients delaying or refusing treatment because of non-clinical obstacles, he founded The WiTT Group to create a platform for patients to ask for the help they need, which also generates SDOH data.