Health Populi

MARCH 11, 2019

“The Fourth Industrial Age,” Dr. Abraham Verghese writes, “has great potential to help, but also to harm, to exaggerate the profound gap that already exists between those who have much and those who have less each passing year.” Dr. Verghese asserts this in his forward to Deep Medicine , Dr. Eric Topol’s latest work which explores the promise of artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and robotics — three legs of the Fourth Industrial Age stool.

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Beterra

MARCH 11, 2019

Despite being arguably the most important industry for the wellbeing of humanity, changes and improvements in healthcare seem to take the longest. If you work in healthcare, you probably know this better than anyone. Healthcare improvement advocates have ideas to make processes better, but often encounter barriers to putting their plans into action.

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Health Dialog

MARCH 11, 2019

This is the fourth installation of our “Overcoming Barriers to Medication Adherence” blog series. Read our introductory blog post to learn the common characteristics of medication non-adherence and how to identify the patient-level barriers to adherence. Simply put, a lack of provider trust, limited communication with a provider, delivery of care by multiple providers, and the overall complexity of navigating through the healthcare system can all be barriers to medication adherence.

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Healthy Debate

MARCH 12, 2019

Doctors emailing patients: Barriers to this practice include privacy, but a new project aims to overcome these

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Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

Patient Experience

Health Populi

MARCH 15, 2019

Today, the number of searches on Google using the phrase “self-care” reached a high, shown in the line graph I created on Google Trends and marked up in red. A Google search overall yielded over 2 billion results. I started this search when the Great Recession began in the U.S. in December 2007, and tracked “self-care” searches to today, 15 March 2019.

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Beterra

MARCH 11, 2019

Despite being arguably the most important industry for the wellbeing of humanity, changes and improvements in healthcare seem to take the longest. If you work in healthcare, you probably know this better than anyone. Healthcare improvement advocates have ideas to make processes better, but often encounter barriers to putting their plans into action.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2019

“Patients as Consumers” is the theme of the Health Affairs issue for March 2019. Research published in this trustworthy health policy publication covers a wide range of perspectives, including the promise of patients’ engagement with data to drive health outcomes, citizen science and participatory research where patients crowdsource cures, the results of financial incentives in value-based plans to drive health care “shopping” and decision making, and ultimately, w

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