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Tweets at Lunch with Paul Krugman – Health IT Meets Economics

Health Populi

More #nurses than #miners #healthcosts. 3 forms of #health financing models accdg to @PaulKrugman: government as #healthcare provider @NHSEngland; #singlepayer #Canada ; regulated/subsidized decentralized a la Switzerland, Germany, #Obamacare #ACA. Lowest-cost is 1st model #HIMSS18 #HX360 @HIMSS #healthcosts #heatlhIT.

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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. THE PROBLEM.

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Polyclinics and Labour's Digital Health vision

Lloyd Price

NHS polyclinics were first introduced in England in 2008 as part of a wider reform of the NHS. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. They are often located in community settings, making them easy to get to.

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HealthSnap Closes $25 Million Series B Funding Amidst Continued Triple Digit Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform

Healthcare IT Today

HealthSnap is actively hiring for care navigator nurse positions, customer success managers, and patient enrollment specialists. For a complete list of open positions, please visit healthsnap.io/careers.

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Avel eCare Announces the Acquisition of NightWatch to Expand Pharmacy Telemedicine Services

Healthcare IT Today

Avel eCare, the nation’s leading provider of clinician-to-clinician telemedicine services, today announced the acquisition of NightWatch , a West Virginia-based company that provides remote pharmacy services to hospitals, clinics and nursing homes throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic region. the parent company of NightWatch.

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Polyclinics and the Labour party's Digital Health plans for the NHS

Lloyd Price

Email , lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk , HealthTech M&A Newsletter from Nelson Advisors - HealthTech, Health IT, Digital Health Insights and Analysis. NHS polyclinics were first introduced in England in 2008 as part of a wider reform of the NHS. They are often located in community settings, making them easy to get to.

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The Consumer and the Payor, Bingo and Trust: My Day At Medecision Liberator Bootcamp

Health Populi

That individual could be a member of a health plan, a nurse, a physician, a grandparent-caregiver tapping into her grandchild’s medical portal…all people, with different abilities to read and comprehend data, values, and incentives. “We are all the same,” a doctor’s essay in JAMA noted this week.