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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. But even more troubling, many Americans are unaware of their health status.

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Is Telehealth the Key to Changing the Opioid Crisis?

GlobalMed

Patients in treatment facilities can have virtual group sessions with their primary care providers and family members back home. Wearable medical devices can deliver timed doses of pain medication to help users avoid drug misuse and overdose; they can also monitor a patient’s vitals and alert providers in the event of an emergency.

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Health IT – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Rise of value-based care: Value-based care models, which reward providers for improving patient outcomes, will become more common. Growth of digital health: Digital health technologies, such as wearable devices and health apps, will become more widely used to monitor and manage health.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

As the OMRON VitalSight, described above, demonstrates, more consumer-facing digital health technologies are bridging patients and doctors, and patients and hospitals. The public health crisis, combined with Medicare Advantage and other payors’ regimes, supported an economic model for the hospital-to-home movement.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Brigham Health also recognizes the challenges faced by working parents and offers backup day care services and flexible schedules to strike the optimal work-life balance. Employees also have access to the PERKS program, which provides discounts on concerts, sporting events, travel expenses, and health and beauty services.

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The Health Consumer in 2024 – The Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

Consumers will also seek food-as-medicine support from grocery stores, with companies such as Kroger growing its Kroger Health identity recently announcing its entry into “value-based primary care in the Atlanta metro market. so please stay tuned for more on consumer health tech trends and the growing retail health ecosystem.