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Reed Jobs launches Venture Capital firm ‘Yosemite’

Digital Health Global

In 2004, he joined his mother to form Emerson Collective, through which he contributed to impact investing and philanthropy. This venture holds personal significance for Reed Jobs, as the loss of his father to pancreatic cancer in 2011 motivated him to pursue new ways of addressing this disease.

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Charging Ahead with Enovate Medical and JAR Systems

Healthcare IT Today

JAR Systems, which organized device charging on a mass scale, was founded in 2004 and served the education market first, but entered healthcare as it discovered many similar needs there. “Many companies are working on the digital workflows, but very few are working on the physical workflows,” he says.

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Five Sensor Technology Offerings to Benefit Older Adults 2022

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Grandcare Systems was founded in 2004 followed by a sensor-based remote monitoring startup and consolidation wave in 2009-2010. Some might say that sensor technology for older adults is nothing new. What’s the big deal? Remote monitoring products and services built with sensors have been around for decades.

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Providence forges a new path with a virtual nursing unit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" PROPOSAL Since 2004, Providence has been using various telemedicine technologies and virtual care models, including Teladoc Health, to support safe, high-quality care across the organization. "Virtual nurses will become a new area of professional practice.

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The Stress of the Caregiver: The Most Over-Utilized, Unpaid Stakeholder in U.S. Healthcare

Health Populi

healthcare system since Dr. Charles Safran testified with that statement to Congress way back in 2004 …an era where bipartisanship for health IT was a real thing. We’ve long know that “the patient” has been an under-utilized resource in the U.S.

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Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Health Populi

Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007]. .” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.

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OIG: CMS should revisit hospital wage index system, citing $140M in overpayments

FierceHealthIT

Between 2004 and 2017, OIG found that the inaccuracies amounted to $140.5 The wage index system CMS employs for hospitals is frequently inaccurate, the HHS Office of Inspector General wrote in a recent report. million in overpayments to 272 hospitals.

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