Wed.Jul 04, 2018

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Is Healthcare and the NHS suffering from Martec's Law?

Lloyd Price

Martec’s Law encapsulates the greatest management challenge of the 21st century: how do we manage relatively slow-changing organizations in a rapidly changing technological environment? It is a hard problem. As shown in the graph above, we know that technology changes at an exponential rate. This is the phenomenon of Moore’s Law — and, more broadly, Kurzweil’s Law of Accelerating Returns.

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Telemedicine, Telehealth, and mHealth Bolster Health Independence and Healthcare Related Quality of Life

Arizona Telemedicine Program

The Fourth of July is Independence Day for the United States of America. Independence is about individual freedoms and liberties and we celebrate these annually on the 4 th of July. In healthcare, telemedicine, telehealth, and mobile health (mHealth) technologies can help us maintain or improve our health more independently by enabling us to track our health, and access and connect with expert care from where we are.

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Diabetes and Telehealth

American Well

Diabetes care has long since progressed to a state where self management is the normal course of action for adults and even many children. Through dietary controls, activity regimens, and automatic injectors with pre-measured doses of insulin, one might think there was little room for improvement. And yet there are still 14 million annual emergency department visits related to diabetes in the US and over 75 thousand deaths each year.

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Checklist: Choosing the Right Telehealth Company

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Telehealth — i.e., the process of digital healthcare delivery — is rapidly transforming many of the fundamental aspects of healthcare, including: Improving communications and strengthening the bond between patients and clinicians. Expanding the financial options available to payers and facility administrators. Spreading access to quality care to the most remote corners of America.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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Diabetes and Telehealth

American Well

Diabetes care has long since progressed to a state where self management is the normal course of action for adults and even many children. Through dietary controls, activity regimens, and automatic injectors with pre-measured doses of insulin, one might think there was little room for improvement. And yet there are still 14 million annual emergency department visits related to diabetes in the US and over 75 thousand deaths each year.

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Society for Participatory Medicine - Untitled Article

Society for Participatory Medicine

Originally published six years ago – as good as new today! The empowered patient, skeptical of professional authority, is not a new phenomenon: s/he was actually created by the American Revolution. Reading through historian Gordon Wood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Radicalism of the American Revolution , I came across a passage describing how national independence from the British led to an independent turn of mind in other spheres.

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Five ground-breaking British Med-Tech companies backed by Coutts

Lloyd Price

Improved cancer treatment, greater chance of pregnancy and faster heart scans are just three benefits brought to healthcare by UK companies attracting investment from Coutts clients. One business we support claims its technology could potentially save the NHS £200 million a year. Our clients have invested in med-tech businesses through the Coutts Investment Club, which introduces financially sophisticated, high net worth clients looking for opportunities to invest in exciting new private compani