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How CrossFit and 23andMe Are Moving from Health to Primary Care

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CrossFit announced the company’s launch of CrossFit Precision Care, described as primary care that provides personalized, data-driven services for “lifelong health,” according to the press release for the program. The converging factors are: Primary care. Retail health. Telehealth.

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In A Declining Consumer Tech Spending Forecast, Consumer Health Tech Will Grow in 2022: Reading the CTA Tea Leaves

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With that macro context, CTA expects “healthy growth for health tech,” illustrated in the first chart, with over $13 bn in U.S. The largest segments in health tech are for smartwatches, connected exercise equipment, and fitness activity tracks whose revenues may have hit their max last year. About 1 in 5 U.S.

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Why Having Pets is Good for Your Mental Health? Top 5 Reasons

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Science supports that owning a pet can be good for your mental health. According to some studies [1] dogs can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, encourage exercise, and improve human health. But what do pets do to contribute to some good impact on our mental health? Keep on reading. Gives comfort.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

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The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” Health equity is prioritized in Quincy’s community as a community investment.

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Physicians in America – Too Many Burned Out, Depressed, and Not Getting Support

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Doctors cope with burnout differently by generation, too: more Millennials look to sleep more and talk with family and friends; more Gen X doctors exercise and isolate themselves from others to deal with burnout; and, among Boomers, isolation and exercise are the go-to strategies for burnout management. Women in the U.S.

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The Doctor Will See You Now…At Home? The AMA Launches a Health at Home Framework

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The last chart arrays tasks that consumers would be comfortable performing for self-service health care — expressing their top two preferences. 45% of folks would do blood glucose tests at home, 39% a cholesterol test, and 35% screen for diabetes.

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From Evolution to Innovation, from Health Care to Health: How Health Plans With Collaborators Are Re-Defining the Industry

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The combination of Kaiser Permanente and Geisinger to form Risant Health will be a test of how Kaiser can build a national brand while embedding its approach to a regional health system that has been geographically boxed-in in central Pennsylvania. Re-building a community health system from an innovative blueprint.