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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Tuesday, June 9, 2020**

TODAY ON THE BLOG
COVID-19

Beyond Lip Service: Taking A Genuine Approach To Tackling COVID-19 (And
All) Black-
White Health Disparities In The United States

By LaShawn Marie Glasgow

A genuine approach to addressing black-white health disparities that
includes confronting hard truths about systemic ills and injustice;
honoring black Americans as a diverse group of people; and meaningfully
engaging black citizens, communities, and experts will help deepen our
understanding of this complex problem and lead us to better solutions.
Read More >>

HEALTH AFFAIRS ANNOUNCEMENT

NYC Health + Hospitals

COVID-19 caused a massive surge in critically ill patients at hospitals
throughout America's largest public health care system, NYC Health +
Hospitals. As the crisis escalated, frontline providers looked for ways
to ease the burden on the health system, and COVID-19 became an unlikely
catalyst for bringing new initiatives to scale. Learn more about these
early experiences in an exclusive new two-part series from Health
Affairs that chronicles important lessons in responding to COVID-19 from
top health care executives and physicians at NYC Health + Hospitals.

On June 11, Health Affairs will release the first installment in the
series with four journal articles, along with a new blog post and
podcast interview with special pathogens and emergency management
experts at NYC Health + Hospitals.

Look for a special edition of Health Affairs Today on Thursday with more
information.

IN THE JOURNAL

HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Electronic Health Information Exchange At Discharge From Inpatient
Psychiatric Care In Acute Care Hospitals

By Morgan C. Shields, Grant Ritter, and Alisa B. Busch

Timely sharing of medical information is essential for care continuity
when people transition from inpatient psychiatric care to lower levels
of care. Morgan Shields and coauthors find that in contrast to the 88
percent of acute care hospitals that employ electronic data exchange
when patients are discharged, only 56.3 percent of inpatient psychiatric
units exchange data electronically upon discharge. Read More >>

Read the June 2020 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Housing And Health

The effects of housing instability and homelessness on child and adult
health are well documented. However, few studies have explored health
and housing interventions for families with children with the objective
of health improvement. A research article in Health Affairs by Allison
Bovell-Ammon and coauthors reports onhousing interventions for medically
complex families associated with improved family health
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