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Thailand’s Princ Hospital Suvarnabhumi clinches HIMSS EMRAM Stage 7

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Recognised as a digital hospital, it is also one of Thailand’s go-to facilities for medical tourism, equipped with modern technologies (such as a digital telephone/vocal order program for ordering medicines without using a computer and robots that act as patient escorts and caregivers), a full-time Burmese interpreter, and a medical assistant.

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JWT’s Future 100 Tells Us Tomorrow Is All About Health

Health Populi

And you’ll find even more health-related trends blurred throughout the report, such as energy-positive hospitality (part of medical tourism), fitness interfaces, vegan luxury, diagnostic travel, and elemental health experiences, among others. Asia wellbeing wave. China health tech.

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More People Using Meditation and Yoga as Medicine, Especially Women

Health Populi

The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health has compiled some resources on the evidence base for the practice for many medical issues such as cancer, heart disease, respiratory conditions, menopause, gut health, MS, and pain, among others.

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Wellness in 2023 Is About Connections, Mental Health and Science – Global Wellness Summit’s 2023 Trends

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Two of the 12 trends deal with business and the workplace, illustrating the reality of the blur working people now have between their “9 to 5 lives” and home/social lives.

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“People will see wellness, peace and healing” – Reading the GWI Future of Wellness Report, 2024 Trends

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Healthy eating and weight loss, personal care and beauty, exercise and physical activity, and wellness tourism are the four biggest components of the world’s wellness economy, quantified in The Future of Wellness, 2024 Trends , the perennial report from the Global Wellness Institute (GWI).

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

Integrating with the telehealth service Care on the Optum Store. On its website, the Optum Store identified 4 ways using the service could make patients’ lives easier, including: Offering free prescription delivery in all 50 U.S. states in 5 days or less (or for a fee of $7.99 for 2-day delivery).

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The Rough Guide to Health/Care Consumers in 2025: The 2025 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

Technology adoption continues as older adults integrate tech into daily life, AARP notes in its discussion of the associations 2025 Tech Trends annual report. Here, we see the integration of food, medicine, retail, and digital health via an app developed by a nutritionist collaborating with the smoothie company.