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Decentralized Clinical Trials Represent the Decentralization of Care - What That Means for Patients | Medable

Many older adults lament the disappearance of the house call, when a trusted doctor would tote a black bag full of medications and diagnostic tools to a patient’s home, providing care on site while the patient rested comfortably in bed. Instead, we began requiring sick people to get dressed and transport themselves to a hospital, clinic or private office to receive care. Fortunately, in the past five decades, there has been a move back toward decentralized, patient-focused care.
Par8o Research Network •

The 5-Minute Guide to FDAISA Section 907, the FDA’s Patient Diversity Initiative

The best way to ensure new medical treatments are safe and effective for everyone is to include as diverse a population as possible in clinical trials. Unfortunately, this has been challenging for a myriad of reasons, which we’ve explored in our white paper, “Ending Racial Disparities in Clinical Trials." In 2012, the U.S. government set out to address the situation by including Section 907 in the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA).
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Turning to Patient Portals and Other Technology to Help Advance the Community Health Center's Mission

More than 90 percent of hospitals and other healthcare providers— including community health centers (CHCs) — have adopted patient portals in recent years, largely in an effort to boost patient engagement. Portals offer patients conveniences like the ability to schedule appointments, pay bills, download test results, request prescription refills, and send secure messages to their doctors from their computers, phones, or tablets, helping to make engagement with healthcare quicker and easier than ever.

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Gun Violence Statistics in the United States: 12 Charts You Need to See

Defined most commonly as any shooting in which four or more people—not including the perpetrator—are injured or killed, mass shootings happen every day in America, and sometimes more often. In 2019, there were 417 such assaults. In 2020, there were 610—nearly two mass shootings per day—killing 513 people and injuring 2,543. But mass shootings represent a tiny fragment of the problem. Nearly 20,000 people were murdered by guns last year, and another 40,000 injured.
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11 Eye-Opening Facts That Will Convince You to Wear a Face Mask

Many people understandably feel powerless against the invisible but very real threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic. But we don’t need to resign ourselves to merely hoping it goes away. Wearing a face mask is one of the most powerful steps we can take—along with keeping our hands clean and maintaining social distance—to quash the spread of coronavirus in our communities. If you’re not already on board with masks (and 65 percent of us are, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey), the following facts should convince you.