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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

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Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services. Telehealth in 2019. The telehealth approach is growing in popularity among patients and providers, and will only continue to do so throughout 2019. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO.

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HC3 warns of Clop ransomware targeting medical images

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center said in its latest analysis that the Clop ransomware gang has shifted tactics, directly impacting the healthcare and public health sector.

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Our Pandemic Lessons: Listening to Michael Dowling – a #HIMSS21 Wrap-Up

Health Populi

Scale matters to survive a public health crisis. Dowling pointed to the benefits of being a large integrated health care system with multiple hospitals, ambulatory care services and a broad portfolio of capabilities that enabled Northwell Health to be responsive to the needs of the pandemic and deal with the crisis.

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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

Health Populi

counties revealed that most of observed racial disparities for COVID-19 deaths persisted after controlling for overall 2019 mortality rates and COVID-19 cases per 100,000. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges.

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Income Inequality is Fostering Mis-Trust, the Edelman 2020 Trust Barometer Observes

Health Populi

Note that peoples’ faith in healthcare remained steady from 2019 to this year (just a 1 point decline in the index). In health care, these would be our honest-and-ethical front-line workers — nurses, physicians, and pharmacists, the latest Gallup Poll on the question learned (described here in Health Populi).

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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A nurse meets a patient at their home and sets up medication and equipment for treatment and devices for teleconsultation and remote monitoring. Nurses can also visit patients up to several times a day to administer drip-based medication or draw blood for testing.

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Dr. Burnout – The 2021 Medscape Physician Burnout & Suicide Report

Health Populi

” In 2015, the Physician Lifestyle Report was titled, Health-Wealth-Weed Burnout. Then in 2019, Medscape added the word “suicide” to the title of the annual assessment. By 2018, Medscape conducted a separate study from the Lifestyle report, titled the National Physician Burnout & Depression Report.