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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: Acting on SDoH

Healthcare IT Today

One Brooklyn Health employed CipherHealth to automate outreach for an Equity Index Survey, with the goal of advancing health equity by amplifying the patient’s voice and reducing health disparities. Sema Sgaier, founder of Surgo Health, points out that different factors are important for different conditions.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them.

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Bonus Features – July 2, 2023 – Nuance and Epic integrate, 5 in 6 physicians say telemedicine improves continuity of care, news from HFMA, and more

Healthcare IT Today

According to the latest State of Telemedicine Report from Doximity, 83% of physicians said telemedicine improves continuity of care for patients with chronic conditions , and a similar percentage of patients said they plan to maintain or increase their use of telemedicine in the future.

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Asymptomatic Hypoglycemia, a Silent Killer

Insulin Nation

According to Dr. Jing Wang, an assistant professor with the department of nursing systems at the University of Texas Health Science Center, asymptomatic hypoglycemia, like other forms of hypoglycemia, can occur because of any combination of too much insulin in the bloodstream, excess stress, or skipping a meal.

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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians. The health informatics field is rapidly growing in all areas of healthcare and healthcare management.

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A Family’s Guide to the ICU, Part 4: The Human Aspect of Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

My mom had thin veins and the nurse practitioner struggled to place the line. The reaction of the nurses in my mom’s room and adjacent ICU rooms reinforced they were very uncomfortable with what was happening. As we entered the room, 2 nurse practitioners, two nurses, a social worker, charge nurse and doctor on call all squeezed in.

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Video doctor appointments are the future, but there is a reluctance to change from both patients and clinicians

Lloyd Price

The same technologies (Skype, FaceTime, WhatsApp and others) that connect us with our friends and family can potentially connect us to our doctors, nurses, psychotherapists, pharmacists, dieticians and interpreters. Proof-of-concept examples (mostly in primary care) already exist and are gaining traction.