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Correctional Healthcare Is Changing and Here’s Why

GlobalMed

But did you know virtual health is making a big impact on inmate care? When you think of a typical telehealth visit, you might picture a patient at home communicating with a primary care provider or a patient and nurse in a long-term care facility coordinating care with a specialist. Improved Care.

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Five Potential Buyers of Babylon's UK Business? Operose, Huma, Modality, BUPA, Aurelius/McKesson UK

Lloyd Price

Operose Health owns and operates a number of GP surgeries and other primary care facilities in England. Operose Health is one of the largest primary care providers in the UK, with over 640,000 patients. Operose Health owns and operates a number of GP surgeries and other primary care facilities in England.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them.

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Asymptomatic Hypoglycemia, a Silent Killer

Insulin Nation

A 2011 Catalina Research Institute study on continuous glucose monitoring found that 60% of all people with diabetes experience unrecognized hypoglycemia, with most of these silent incidents happening at night. In one 2011 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation study, patients who used CGMs saw their incidents of hypoglycemia drop from 21.8

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Collecting Data

Healthcare IT Today

Hands-On Data Collection I talked to Dr. Geoff Rutledge, chief medical officer of HealthTap , a company that came early to telehealth and that I covered several times as far back as 2011. A visiting nurse can look in the kitchen cabinets and refrigerator, for instance, to find out whether the patient has enough food and what its quality is.

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Telemedicine Today (#tday): January 2016

American Well

The majority of the telehealth visits are for primary care or mental health. Oftentimes, a nurse or aide at the prison helps patients to conduct virtual visits with primary care providers. Other times, the PCP may be at the hospital, but will use telemedicine to consult a specialist at another hospital.

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New Generations, Digital Expectations

GlobalMed

Millennials (born 1981-1996) and Generation Z (1997-2011) either grew up or came of age in a digital world. The doctor will send him home with a thermometer, blood pressure cuff, and other tools so nurses can monitor Matt’s vitals and intervene if necessary. Generation Next. It’s obvious which doctor Matt is going to choose.