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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

In Q1 2017 Epic launched a new program App Orchard – serving physician practices and hospitals to help them build customized apps. The program also supports independent mobile app developers who target providers and patients. Google Voice, Siri, Cortana and Alexa will finally have connectivity to raw and comprehensive up-to-date data.

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HHS Awards $1 Billion to Combat the Opioid Crisis

Medical Mime - EHR

We have written about this crisis which caused 72,000 deaths in 2017 and about a year ago here. Better pain management. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded over $1 billion in opioid-specific grants to help combat the drug overdose crisis. Better data. Better availability of Overdose-reversing drugs.

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Top 5 Examples Of Wearable Medical Devices

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

For instance, connecting electronic health records (EHR) and wearables benefits primary care and chronic care patients. In a study by Burridge and colleagues (2017), the researchers developed a wearable device for patients with stroke. Wearables are a valuable tool in delivering patient therapy.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

In 2017, Adventist’s corporate campus received the Orlando Business Journal ‘s Corporate Philanthropy Award. As a 73-bed acute care hospital, Bailey Medical Center was recognized with Ardent Healthcare’s Ardent Cup as an outstanding facility in four times from 2012 to 2017, and it earned a five-star CMS rating in 2017.