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Gen Z and Millennials: What They Want from Healthcare

MeMD

The workforce is changing – drastically. Millennials, the age group born between 1981 and 2000, now make up 35% of today’s employees. Right on their heels is Gen Z, born between 2001 and 2020, the largest population segment in the U.S. The oldest members of this generation are now entering the workforce en masse. What Younger Employees Want.

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Health SXSW 2018 | The 33 charts Super Guide

33 Charts - Digital Health

I’m an advisor to the Health SXSW and so I’ve had the opportunity to check these out beginning last summer when judging submissions. And so I’m stoked to see it all come together beginning with the first Health SXSW in 2011. Headed to SXSW 2018? Think of it as the ultimate guide for the health care power user. Browse the health track.

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The Heart Attack That Wasn’t

Society for Participatory Medicine

I felt exhausted at the beginning as I absorbed the scope and the stakes, then exhausted again after the fact, once it was clear how much harm could have been done. Next, I was sent to the cath lab to get a cardiac stent that, as it turned out, I did not really need. Risky business. The heart of a much longer tale.

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RTLS Helps Address Staff Duress

Healthcare IT Today

Realtime location systems (RTLS) have long been known to help hospitals with medical device management, but there is a new use-case that is growing in popularity and importance: addressing staff safety and duress. As violence towards nurses and physicians increases, this will become a more important use-case for this technology.

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Pandemic allows CIOs to move with new speed, but cyber threats lie in wait

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the U.S. early last year, life slowed down, even ground to a halt in many circumstances. But for health IT, things sped up. When new technologies were needed to solve fast-moving healthcare challenges, hospitals and health systems could not afford to wait the time it normally took to stand up IT.

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What's on the horizon for Teladoc? CIO Claus Jensen weighs in

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

It's been a busy few years for virtual care, to say the least. It's the beginning of the right question, but it's only the first half – and it's the easy part. Now, many patients and providers are asking: What will telehealth look like five or ten years from now? And we figured it out – because we had to.

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Patients – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

In any case, health systems will need to work to improve access to care – and can do so by offering integrated, personalized options. As we kick off 2024, we wanted to start the new year with a series of 2024 Health IT predictions. In fact, we got so many that we had to narrow them down to just the best and most interesting.

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