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Health @ Retail – Prelude to GMDC SelfCare Summit with Updates from Hims & Hers, GoodRx, Sam’s Club and Amazon Care

Health Populi

I’ve addressed the company’s growing health/care ethos here in Health Populi in these posts written this year — Walmart’s Growing Footprint in Health/Care, from Guns to Mental Health and Gardens. FANGs & MAGA – Meet WaWa for Health, Walgreens and Walmart.

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Evans, chief officer in the VA's Office Of Connected Care, will speak about some lessons learned as the department, a longtime health IT leader, works to make more progress with its connected care initiatives. VA is piloting a health chat feature as well. At HIMSS20, Dr. Neil C. In FY19, there were more than 20.6

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Mississippi provider org's use of telehealth enables huge turnaround during the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before shifting gears to telemedicine, the technology infrastructure of Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex in McComb, Mississippi, was very old and extremely limited. The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008. " Margo Brooks, Southwest Mississippi Mental Health Complex.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. platform – a very interesting story in its own right. Source : [link]