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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

The conclusion of the paper states, “Adjuvant endocrine therapy and chemoendocrine therapy had similar efficacy in women with hormone-receptor-positive, HER2-negative, axillary node-negative breast cancer who had a midrange 21-gene recurrence score.” We are de-escalating toxic therapy.”

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Ambulatory surgery center's virtual care platform helps boost productivity and patient satisfaction

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"During the early stages of the pandemic, we had many patients that were afraid of going to physical therapy, and several facilities were shut down for extended periods," Lovewell recalled. "If a patient isn't engaging with the platform or watching their physical therapy videos, we step in to help.

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Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Healthcare IT Today

In addition, 28% of patients – including 55% of those ages 18 to 24 – said they experience isolation in dealing with their physical and mental health. DoseData released an RFID-tagged drug database to help pharma companies monitor drug supplies within hospital inventory systems. Partnerships.

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Five Technology Offerings for Older Adults -- April 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

In addition to fall detection, the MyNotifi app assists in fall prevention with 38 American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) certified physical therapy exercises." Learn more at MyNotifi. category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business , fall prevention, fall detection , IoT and home monitoring , tablets.

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Five technologies from 2018 Aging 2.0 Optimize

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The platform ultimately facilitates personalized CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) driven health intervention that increases individuals' treatment adherence and helps improve people's lives." category tags: Boomer-Senior Tech Business. Learn more at Somatix.com. Learn more at myseismic.com.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Passive" telehealth refers to storing and accessing digital knowledge bases, health and wellness Web content, and interactive software applications that help us understand, prevent, treat, or recover from threats to our physical and mental health. Region Tag: Global Edition. Carly McCord, Ph.D.,

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Pandemic-era burnout: Telehealth managers get pushed to the max

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In our case, we rapidly scaled our telehealth solution from primary care to all specialty care in a span of less than two weeks, including cancer, orthopedics, physical therapy, as well as additional services such as genetic counseling and nurse education.” Maintaining that operational flexibility was key, he revealed.