CALLING ALL CARS AND HEALTH DETECTIVES

Indicates the important role that epidemiologists play in explaining what is transpiring at key stages of COVID-19. Read More

PRESIDENT’S CORNER

ASAHP President Phyllis King discusses how with the thrust into the digitization of healthcare, the question for higher education is how fast can we understand, adapt, anticipate and project patient care needs and healthcare innovations to prepare our students and meet the needs of this new world? Read More

FAST CHANGING LEGISLATIVE ENVIRONMENT

Depicts efforts by the federal government to provide additional funding through Paycheck Program Protection legislation, along with an increasing concern that the U.S. is too dependent on other nations for supplying minerals used in the production of pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Read More

HEALTH REFORM DEVELOPMENTS

Points out how the existence of accountable care organizations (ACOs) is threatened by the current pandemic; COVID-19 surveillance activities in relation to the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution; and loosening by the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of telehealth and scope of practice regulations. Read More

DEVELOPMENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Describes a recent ASAHP webinar on clinical education; a statement of principles on academic credit; and whether regional higher education accreditation should go national. Read More

QUICK STAT (SHORT, TIMELY, AND TOPICAL)

• Lifetime Prevalence Of Self-Reported Work-Related Health Problems Among U.S. Workers

• National Health Expenditure Projections, 2019-2028

• Skin-Interfaced Biosensors For Wireless Physiological Monitoring In Neonatal And

  Pediatric Intensive-Care Units

• Bacterial Colonization Reprograms The Neonatal Gut Metabolome Read More

AVAILABLE RESOURCES ACCESSIBLE ELECTRONICALLY

• Brain Health Across The Lifespan

• Leading In A Time Of Crisis: Corporate America And COVID-19

• Confronting Rural America’s Health Care Crisis Read More

RACIAL DISPARITIES IN AUTOMATED SPEECH RECOGNITION SYSTEMS

Mentions how these tools do not work equally well for all subgroups of the population, with study results showing that all five ASR systems in an investigation exhibited substantial racial disparities, with an average word error rate (WER) of 0.35 for black speakers compared with 0.19 for white speakers. Read More

ESTABLISHING HIGH PERFORMING TEAMS: HEALTH CARE LESSONS

Refers to a study that shows that while both Functional Change and Cultural Change processes were individually important for enhancing team-based health care, they were most effective when mobilized in tandem. Read More