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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Sensor-based home monitoring was a 2007-ish innovation. Telehealth was a pioneering concept in 2008. In 2020, telehealth (and its other prefixes or monikers) is an accepted service with reimbursement codes. Do these visits result in recommendations for telehealth? This is laudable. That’s 5 percent! Just saying.

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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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Telepsychiatry saves east Texas hospitals $18 million over 7 years

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

“Newly available state funding in 2007 that was earmarked for special projects in crisis response helped us fuel the creation of a regional mental health authority that became the Burke Mental Health Emergency Center,” explained Susan Rushing, CEO of the Burke Mental Health Emergency Center. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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GMA Network Joins Forces With Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health to Advance Global Health-Tech Innovation in the Philippines

Digital Health Global

focused singularly on early-stage healthcare disruptors in the areas of health-tech, digital health, medical device, telehealth, pharma-tech, science and marketplaces. Officially listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange in 2007, GMA Network, Inc. To learn more about Wavemaker 360, visit www.wavemaker360.com.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

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. When discussing healthcare waiting lists and clinicians’ shortages the public often focuses mainly on a need to increase the supply of clinicians, nurses and other allied healthcare practitioners.

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How RPM & PERS Offer More Data-Driven Insight to Healthcare Organizations

Clear Arch Health

In addition, a system that employs both telehealth/RPM and PERS provides clinicians with reliable electronically captured patient-generated health data (PGHD). While telehealth is often considered to be an equal experience to in-person care, the fact is that data gathered in clinics is often missing from telehealth encounters.

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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.