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Provider Spotlight: How an Urgent Care Telemedicine Nurse Practitioner Balances Family and Career

Enzyme Health

We sat down with telemedicine provider Michelle Everhart to learn about why she started in telemedicine, why she may never go back to “brick and mortar”, and why telemedicine makes her a better care provider. From Family Nurse Practitioner to Urgent Care Telemedicine NP. I’ve been a nurse since 2007.

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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. They would stay a few days, get fluids, and get Phenergan around the clock for nausea, and narcotics for pain.

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WhatsApp, Messaging Apps and the future of Digital Health in the UK

Lloyd Price

Looking forward 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, secure communication between doctors, patients, clinicians and nurses is going to be an essential utility and productivity tool, potentially unrivalled by any other technology in terms of impact and widespread adoption. Messaging apps are the future of digital health technology in the UK.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

Long waiting lists and clinicians’ shortage Healthcare waiting lists represent a significant challenge for many countries, with millions of patients facing delays in accessing essential medical care. million people were waiting to start routine hospital treatment, the highest number since the NHS began to collect data on the issue in 2007 3.

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Asymptomatic Hypoglycemia, a Silent Killer

Insulin Nation

According to Dr. Jing Wang, an assistant professor with the department of nursing systems at the University of Texas Health Science Center, asymptomatic hypoglycemia, like other forms of hypoglycemia, can occur because of any combination of too much insulin in the bloodstream, excess stress, or skipping a meal.

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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 (Downers Grove, Ill.). 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 also offers home care and hospice services and has ownership in facilities across six states.