Cultural Awareness & Health Equity Among Diverse Populations

To achieve quality goals, health plans need not only administrative data but also high-quality clinical data. Evolving strategies and policies around interoperability are being implemented.

Evolving consumer expectations and the drive toward value-based care are causing healthcare providers to recast the healthcare experience they provide. While digital transformation is a key component of this evolution, efforts still appear to be largely fragmented, and convenient frameworks to assess and monitor digital health readiness still are not widely available. This makes managing competing priorities while promoting the best digital adoption and deployment delivery practices quite difficult.

The role that Artificial Intelligence is starting to play in the analysis of medical images is transitioning from one of controversy and the threat of displacing radiologist’s jobs to one of being a critical advance in helping them meet the demand for timely and accurate analysis of ever-more prevalent and complex imaging studies. This webinar will explore the advances, challenges, future, and most importantly, the implications and actions for healthcare stakeholders to consider when employing AI in medical research and clinical practice.

Behavioral health practitioners, including social workers, psychologists, mental health and substance use counselors, psychiatric nurses, and psychiatrists, face a wide range of complex ethical challenges. What are the limits of clients' confidentiality rights? How do I manage boundaries and dual relationships in a small community? How should I respond to clients' Facebook friend requests? When is it appropriate to share personal information with clients? Is it ethical to provide services to clients remotely without ever meeting them in person? Inevitably, practitioners encounter challenging ethical dilemmas that require sound judgment in order to protect clients and service providers.