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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them. CCHCS was also able to expand specialist access from 30 specialists in 4 locations in 2006 to 200 specialists in 22 locations by 2018. He was shot in the chest and a deputy sheriff was shot in the leg. Read case study.

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How Millennials are Reshaping the Entire Healthcare Sector

Advanced Medical Reviews

A Manatt Health study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the total number of such clinics grew 900 percent between 2006 and 2014 , to 1,800 nationwide. These clinics are typically open on weekends, well-integrated with provider mobile/web apps for easy scheduling and staffed by nurse practitioners.

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mHealth in Times of Crisis: the Coronavirus

mHealth Insight

In 2006 David co-founded 3G Doctor, a service providing fully documented Mobile Video Consultations with registered Doctors. 11:30am “mHealth in the time of Coronavirus: Protecting Health Workers & Caregivers “ Dr Kate Tulenko (CEO at Corvus Health). 9:30am “A review of the mHealth decade”.

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Weekender 8/31/18

HIStalk Weekender

Two key leaders of the VA’s Cerner implementation have turned in their resignations – Chief Medical Officer Ashwini Zenooz, MD and Chief Health Information Officer Genevieve Morris. The Politico story about Verity Health and Patrick Soon-Shiong is depressing to read, he drove a stake into the heart of that company. Get Involved.

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