By Megan Sayles, AFRO Business Writer, msayles@afro.com The University of the District of Columbia (UDC), in partnership with Howard University (Howard), was chosen alongside nine other universities across the country to boost the public health informatics workforce...
Ever since the unprecedented era of COVID-19, the health care industry has been riddled with momentous challenges, from the pressures to effectively contain the virus, to frightening shortages of medical professionals across the nation. Similarly, the District faced...
Some of us may remember incessantly refreshing D.C.’s various COVID data dashboards every afternoon, trying to make sense of the bar graphs jumping up (bad) or down (good), as charts moved from yellow, to red, to green, to yellow again, and so on. Or maybe we remember...
There were many lessons learned during the pandemic. Two local universities say one of them is that the District doesn’t have enough healthcare workers who know how to use cutting-edge data and technology. The University of the District of Columbia and Howard...
Course Objectives The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Model is a new way of organizing primary care that puts patients at the center of care. It is designed to improve the quality of care, reduce costs, and improve patient satisfaction. The PCMH Model is based on...
