Health Populi

MAY 29, 2020

The barbershop and beauty salon are important community touch points for health, wellness, and social connection in so many peoples’ lives. In my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , I feature the black barbershop to introduce a chapter on “The New Retail Health.” In the COVID-19 pandemic, how we’re dealing with hair is a metaphor for personal control, for political statements, for mental health, and for overall well-being.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 29, 2020

As a historian of medicine and disease, I encounter this stark image of past pandemics with sad repetition: from centuries of recurrent plague outbreaks to waves of cholera epidemics to the Spanish Flu. Images of devastated African villages during the Ebola outbreak of 2014 echo past stories as do pictures from Madagascar’s deadly plague epidemic of 2017.

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Medbridge Education

MAY 29, 2020

CMS has added hospital outpatient and other institutional providers as eligible providers of telehealth services for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis. Therapy services paid under Part B and reported on an UB-04 form (with the -95 modifier) can be paid for as long as they are not part of a bundled institutional payment. This […]. The post Breaking News: Telehealth Update for Institutional Providers of Therapy Services appeared first on MedBridge Blog.

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Cloud Blogs

MAY 28, 2020

The urgent and widespread impact of the global health pandemic is shining a light on the healthcare industry and the critical need for continued , rapid transformation. In response, Microsoft partners are applying advanced technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) to create solutions that are enabl ing healthcare workers to deliver quality care to more people while keeping patients and providers safer.

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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

MAY 28, 2020

We are all caregivers now. The COVID-19 pandemic has touched and continues to re-shape our daily lives. One reality that the coronavirus era has revealed is that caregiving is a daily life-flow for everyone around the world. In the U.S., this has particularly acute impacts — physical, emotional, and financial. The 2020 AARP report on caregiving was published this month, and the survey research into caregivers uncovered fresh insights about caregivers’ demographics, financial stressor

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Instamed

MAY 28, 2020

The Burden of Rising Healthcare Costs The 10th edition of the Trends in Healthcare Payments Annual Report reveals that rising costs continue to influence consumer healthcare decisions. The data also.

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Health Populi

MAY 26, 2020

Millions of mainstream, Main Street Americans entered 2020 feeling income inequality and financial insecurity in the U.S. The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating financial stress in America, hitting women especially hard, based on PwC’s 9th annual Employee Financial Wellness Survey COVID-19 Update. For this report, PwC polled 1,683 full-time employed adults between 18 and 75 years of age in January 2020.

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Health Populi

MAY 27, 2020

By May 14th, 2020, one-half of consumers in the U.S. expected they would schedule a medical appointment in the next two months. “As the country emerges from COVID-19, we’re watching consumer confidence shift back to where it was prior to the onset of this crisis,” noted Dr. Brad Bowman, Chief Medical Office at Healthgrades. The company published the COVID-19 Patient Confidence Study , a survey launched in late March.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 27, 2020

When the time for reflection begins, so too will the soul-searching on our response to COVID-19. As a family doctor, allow me to offer this lesson learned. Family doctors who have been better able to weather the storm have had the benefit of existing and strong connections within their communities.

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Instamed

MAY 27, 2020

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Speaker: Kaitlin Ruby Carroll

Retaining top talent in 2025 means rethinking benefits. In a competitive job market, fertility benefits are more than just offerings - they are a commitment to your team’s well-being. Gain critical insights into the latest fertility benefits strategies that can help position your organization as an industry leader. Our expert will explore the unique advantages and challenges of each model, share success stories from top organizations, and offer practical strategies to make benefits decisions tha

Healthy Debate

MAY 26, 2020

COVID-19 has affected much of our public and private lives – the way we eat, work, communicate and even see our family doctor has changed. Some of these changes may reverberate once the COVID-19 pandemic stops being a daily reality and becomes a collective memory. One trend in the healthcare field has been a shift toward more privatized medicine.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 26, 2020

As it becomes clear that COVID-19 will be with us for a year or longer, the role family doctors play in preventing and managing chronic health conditions like diabetes and heart disease will be increasingly important. We need to ensure family doctors are organized, paid, and resourced to deliver the care patients need.

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Healthy Debate

MAY 26, 2020

That is nine healthcare workers: six personal support workers, two hospital cleaners and one nurse. Nine lives too many that Ontario has lost to COVID-19 already. These deaths are among at least 3,600 confirmed cases of COVID-19 among nurses, first responders, lab workers, personal support workers (PSWs), respiratory therapists, hospital cleaners and other healthcare workers working on the frontline during the pandemic.

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