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In April 2015, the Institute of Medicine convened a public workshop to explore recent shifts in the health and health ca
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Many health care providers do not have either the knowledge or the tools they need in order to apply genetic information
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Rapid advances in technology have lowered the cost of sequencing an individual's genome from the several billion do
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An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care se
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On February 5, 2015, the Institute of Medicine Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to explore
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Approximately 80 million adults in the United States have low health literacy - an individual's ability to obtain,
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Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global
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Health literacy is the degree to which individuals can obtain, process, and understand the basic health information and
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Health literacy is the degree to which one can understand and make decisions based on health information. Nearly 90 mill
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A pressing challenge in the modern health care system is the gap between education and clinical practice. Emerging techn
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