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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being. My work is my life, and my life is my work,” she confessed. I said, OK, great.

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9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

These life-long treatments deliver impressive clinical outcomes but come with a high price tag, putting employers and healthcare insurers under pressure. 9amHealth is addressing this challenge by providing affordable cardiometabolic care at scale and helping to manage the rising costs of GLP-1s for both patients and employers.

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Technology transformation in home care must and will accelerate

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And the shortages in home care , home healthcare , skilled nursing facilities and senior living are juxtaposed with an overall labor shortage, just as the oldest baby boomer has turned 76 and has significant remaining life expectancy. category tags: Home Care , tech-enabled home care , home health care. And that's just today.

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Interactive television offerings in 2022 for health and wellbeing

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Professional services available on Independa include Dentulu (online dental consultation), Capital Rx (discount pharmacy platform), Coverdell (dental insurance benefits), WebMD (medical grade educational videos) and Sprio100 (fitness programs for seniors)." category tags: Television/Smart TV , computers, broadband, and social networking.

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So Many Records, So Little Time: How to Manage Burgeoning Health Plan Requests

Healthcare IT Today

Non-health insurers and life sciences companies also recognize the value of clinical data and are requiring greater levels of access to power their applications and processes. Medical record requests are digitized, and specific data requirements are tagged.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

There are reasons underneath this value-calculation I’ll address in another post: top-line for me is Americans’ lack of comprehensive data privacy protection and lack of opt-in to data collection in everyday life (addressed in the concluding Hot Points , below). The tag line of the book is how AI can help humanize health care.

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Living to 100 – will technology matter – and for whom?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Today there are 450,000 centenarians worldwide – with the longest disability-free life expectancy found in Okinawa, Japan. Baby boomers may have a longer life expectancy at 65 than their parents – most likely due to availability of more sophisticated health care and medications. See Figure 2 Centenarian Morning in the Life).

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