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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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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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$1 Trillion Healthcare Market

David Chou

These five areas will adequately address the needs of Chinese patients as the nation changes, requiring changes to meet the diverse needs of the people. of the population in 2004 and has grown to nearly 10% as of 2013. If the trend continues as expected, healthcare expenditures will reach $963B by the year 2020.

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

Join me in calling on the industry to leverage our resources to improve the care experience of providers and patients alike. . Adeel Sarwar, Chief Technology Officer, joined CareCloud in 2004. About Adeel Sarwar.

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Is laughter the best medicine?

Lloyd Price

The ‘laughter line’, founded in 2004 is a phone line that connects you with other people to have a giggle (it is contagious after all). The researchers concluded that patients would benefit a great deal from humour being used within clinical environments more often.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

Fear about an Ever-Changing Context : When PLM first formed back in 2004, a lot of the data sharing issues we speak about hadn’t even been conceived of yet. Imagine if, in 2004, you shared data with PLM (or any organization) with an expectation that it would always be shared in a de-identified way. Probably not so great.