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COVID-19 Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism…

by Michael A Greeley, Co-Founder & General Partner at Flare Capital Partners 10/27/2020 Leave a Comment

Pandemic Further Exposes Systemic Racism… Healthcare Technology Digital Health

This will be ugly and sad. Racism has cost this country $16 trillion over the last twenty years according to a recent Citigroup report. Much of this loss ($13 trillion) was attributed to discriminatory lending practices and the 6.1 million fewer jobs created as a result, while disparity in wages ($2.7 trillion) and discrimination in housing policies and lost income due to restricted access to higher education accounted for the balance. The report estimates that if these gaps were to be
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Cerner Technology to Support COVID-19 Testing for HBCUs Nationwide

by Fred Pennic 08/18/2020 Leave a Comment

Cerner Technology to Support COVID-19 Testing for HBCUs Nationwide

What You Should Know: - Cerner announces a commitment to help expand COVID-19 testing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the U.S through a partnership with Testing for America. - As part of the partnership, Cerner will serve as the national technology partner for a return to school effort led by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and The United Negro College Fund (UNCF). The strategic initiative aims to support HBCUs in their COVID-19 testing of
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Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

by JohnMatthew Douglas, President And Founder at iPressForward, LLC 06/22/2020 Leave a Comment

Black Lives Matter: Health IT Industry, Where Are You?

All lives truly matter. However, the world does not exist in a vacuum void of institutional racism, subconscious, and implicit bias. As a result, every life within America is not valued the same, as is evident by the recent George Floyd murder. When all lives are not treated with the same opportunities and respect, whether in matters of criminal justice, employment, housing, education, health, and healthcare evidence shows the result is that only some lives actually matter. One cannot change the
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