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Privacy Issues with Patient Portals

BHM Healthcare Solutions

Editor’s Note: Payers stay informed with information security trends to protect their patients’ data. Often when sensitive data is entered into the EHR, it can automatically appear in the patient portal, be printed in a care summary report or get transmitted to other providers or payers.

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Miss one of these? Six aging and health tech blog posts from April and May

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The news articles pile up – assisted living and nursing home staffing shortages ; stranding older adults without home health care ; keeping patients in hospitals longer because of lack of care; nursing home staffing crisis ; Medicaid paying family members to provide care , low wages and low unemployment worsen care situation , and on and on.

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Key trends expected to shape Pain Management and Adherence markets in 2024 and beyond

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: The pain management market is experiencing exciting growth, driven by several key trends: Increased Demand: Chronic pain prevalence: Chronic pain affects a significant portion of the population, with an aging demographic further increasing demand. Affordability and access to new technologies remain a barrier for some patients.

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Why did Google Glass fail in Healthcare and overall with consumers?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: There are many reasons why Google Glass failed. The initial price tag was $1,500, which is much more expensive than other wearable devices on the market. The device had the potential to revolutionize the way doctors and nurses interact with patients, and it could also be used to improve patient care.

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Allurion: first HealthTech IPO of 2023 via SPAC with Compute Health

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Allurion, a weight loss company that makes a swallowable gastric balloon, went public this week on August 2, 2023 through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) called Compute Health. Additionally, the company has been criticized for its high price tag. The deal valued Allurion at $500 million.

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Healthcare Experts in Quebec Ask “Who Chooses How Much of What?”

Society for Participatory Medicine

Last Thursday, August 17, at the convention center in Quebec City, more than 400 doctors, patients, clinicians, caregivers and policy makers from around the globe met for an international conference on the topic of overdiagnosis in medicine, or as the event banners said: “ Preventing Overdiagnosis: Winding Back The Harms of Too Much Medicine.”

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Food Effect on Glucose

Insulin Nation

This incorporated both production in Type 2 patients and disposal, including how it was potentially diminished by insulin resistance. The parameters for this model consisted of: “ Glycemic Value ” for the food, roughly the fraction of the food input, its Total Available Glucose (TAG), that eventually appears as glucose. Glycemic Index.

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