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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. out of the Great Recession. GDP, in 2018.

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HIMSS 2019: The Mainstreaming of Health IT, from Jim Cramer to Opioid Risk Scores

Health Populi

On January 10, 2019, Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money recommended that Apple buy Epic, a market leader in EHRs. At that moment in the Twitterverse, it occurred to me that health IT as a consumer-facing industry was beginning to mainstream in America. Why is this so important? Patient’s privacy and data security.

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Here are some of the evidence: In a 2009 study on the evidence of the Chronic Care Model in the new millennium , it was found that the Chronic Care Model can improve patient care and create better health outcomes. Under this program, care teams can bill for time spent managing patients’ health conditions. DrKumo Inc.,