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The Secret Surveillance Capitalism That Suffuses Medicare

The Health Care Blog

The for-profit mining of consumer data for health purposes is a somewhat paradoxical outgrowth of public health research, which has long stressed the need to address so-called “social determinants of health” (SDOH). SDOH refers to the environment in which people are born, live, learn, work and play.

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Voting from the ER: How health care workers are driving civic engagement

HEALTHBEAT

By the 2018 midterm elections, Schavrien and her colleague Erin Ainslie Smith had launched a hospital-wide effort to help patients register to vote or cast ballots if they were unexpectedly hospitalized on Election Day. She had missed the deadline for an absentee ballot application. It’s inherently future-oriented.”