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Three More Signposts on the Road to Retail Health – Weight Loss Drugs, OTC Birth Control and Fashion-Meets-the-Flu

Health Populi

This week, three intriguing examples are resonating with us: The ever-evolving weight-loss industry FDA favors OTC use for Perrigo’s Opill daily oral contraceptive birth control pill The convergence of fashion and health — specifically, how an over-the-counter medicine converges with clothing that helps us feel better.

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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. It has various applications in healthcare, including tracking medical equipment and medicines, monitoring patient movements, and managing medication inventory. As RFID expands rapidly, it can trigger security and privacy concerns.

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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. The 9amHealth team of endocrinologists, obesity medicine specialists, nutritionists, and clinical pharmacists develop tailored treatment plans for long-term success.

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Will Retail Health Really Disrupt Healthcare?

David Chou

This shift signals a potential change in the retail healthcare sector as companies strive to gain market dominance in primary care, concierge medicine, virtual care and home medical services while providing patients with personalized experiences. The move comes at a price tag of $3.9 The PBM giant also reported $169.2

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

Since George Washington curated a list of medicines for his troops, in search of tinctures and oils for dealing with the harsh environment and challenging battlegrounds, to today’s challenges of ecommerce and new products like CBD oils disrupting today’s marketplace, the concept of self-care continues to evolve. health care system $94.8

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Person-First Safe Living in a Pandemic: Part 2: Finding Guidance

Society for Participatory Medicine

What followed was an exercise in classification, metadata, and tagging. Traditionally, academics and scientists use NLM (National Library of Medicine) resources, including PubMed, and other classification systems to help organize and search for academic literature. Tagging is further search refinement. check box, short answer.

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Give Me My DaM Data::The Revolution

Society for Participatory Medicine

See the National Academy of Medicine’s Care-Centered Clinical Documentation in the Digital Environment: Solutions to Alleviate Burnout. Tagging features for encounters (categorizes like visits). Could we be approaching a harmonic convergence to take data control for patients and trusted clinicians?