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Lean Digital: How Apps and Services Can Help Control Weight

Healthcare IT Today

The rapidly expanding use of GLP-1 drugs has been life-altering for many, but brings its own disappointments: They’re extremely expensive, require continual use to be effective, have potentially negative effects on muscle mass , and are usually abandoned by patients. My interviewees came up with the same basic list.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Hospitals must learn to run like fast-paced private practice ASCs, who benefit from lofty, high-volume facility fees. Ankit Gupta, Founder and CEO at Bicycle Health The opioid epidemic is the most acute and urgent public health crisis in America. lacks a robust public health infrastructure.

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Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As this public health crisis continues to escalate, however, telemedicine is quickly gaining recognition as a critical tool to slow the spread of COVID-19, he added. “Telemedicine hasn’t traditionally been used in response to public health crises, but that is changing with COVID-19,” he said.

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Telemedicine for Coronavirus care: what are the limitations and how are hospitals adapting?

Lloyd Price

As this public health crisis continues to escalate, however, telemedicine is quickly gaining recognition as a critical tool to slow the spread of COVID-19, he added. “We Telemedicine hasn’t traditionally been used in response to public health crises, but that is changing with COVID-19,” he said. Source: [link]