mHealth Insight

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Laura Donnelly, Health Editor at the Telegraph reports on how new mothers will be offered counselling by Skype under NHS plans to tackle post-natal depression. “An estimated 140,000 mothers each year – one in five – suffer depression, anxiety and other mental health problems during pregnancy or in the months after their baby is born.

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Mental health mHealth 51

Healthcare Exchange Standards

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Apple has re-entered the Healthcare space with their new announcement about support for a person to maintain their health data on their iPhone. There is really nothing technically new, but new or not is not the important bit. What is important is that any visibility given to the Health Data portability problem is good for making changes. My understanding of what has happened is that Apple has moved from their own proprietary API support, to support for Argonaut defined APIs.

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Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Intermountain’s simulation concept is currently featured on display at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Total Health. Heart failure is a growing problem in the U.S., with over a million hospitalizations, skyrocketing costs, and pressures to improve care. While many treatment options exist, heart failure is complex and we know that treating patients with medications, devices, and surgeries is simply not enough.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Health care ranks highest among working Americans as the top critical issue facing the country, well above terrorism, the role of the Federal government, unemployment and jobs, education, immigration and taxes. Over half of American workers also rate the country’s healthcare system as “poor” or “fair,” based on the results of the EBRI/Greenwald & Associates Health and Workplace Benefits Survey.

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