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As Medical Cost Trend Remains Flat, Patients Face Growing Health Consumer Financial Stress

Health Populi

Here is the first “good news” line chart, showing declining medical trend from 2007 to next year in 2019. That’s one-half the high point at nearly 12% in 2007. The 6% trend is equal to that of 2018, illustrating a flat scenario, roughly the same trend seen in 2016 at 6.2%.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

This resource-intensiveness not only hinders innovation, limiting the development of potentially life-saving drugs, but it also contributes to the elevated prices of pharmaceuticals, posing a significant barrier to healthcare accessibility for many. In England, this past July, 7.47 DiMasi, H.G. Grabowski, and R.W.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians. At Northeastern, the HI program accepted its first students in 2007, making it one of the oldest HI graduate programs in the country.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.