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Report: How Apple Is Advancing Digital Healthcare Transformation

HIT Consultant

. – The report covers Apple’s two-pronged approach to advance health: Apple’s focus on personal health and fitness features on Apple Watch and iPhone, and Apple’s work with the medical community to support research and care. Empowering Users on Their Personal Health Journeys. Keeping Privacy in Mind.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

In March 2014, Danny Wegman, patriarch of the family-held Wegman’s grocery chain, came out in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a statewide health information network in New York, where Wegman’s headquarters sits in Rochester. Beyond the local economic effects, think about the larger region or State.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This new system facilitates the secure transfer of active-duty service members’ health records as they transition to veteran status, improving data analysis capabilities and leading to better health outcomes. CIO, Banner Health. Deanna Wise.

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Healthcare Access and Cost Top Americans’ Concerns in Latest Gallup Poll

Health Populi

It’s important to note that equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans were worried about healthcare between 2014 and 2016 as the Affordable Care Act was being implemented. More Democrats worry about healthcare than Republicans, this year at a huge gap of 72% for Dems vs. 39% for Republicans. Gallup interviewed 1,041 U.S.

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Scene Health Secures $17.7 Million Series B Financing Led by ABS Capital Partners

Healthcare IT Today

This financing brings the total investment in Scene to over $25 million since its founding in 2014. This funding is a critical milestone to defining a new, modern standard for supporting medication adherence using evidence-based public health strategies.” Medication nonadherence is a $500 billion challenge in the U.S.

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Technology, Aging and Obesity Drive Healthcare Spending, BEA Finds

Health Populi

Some key findings from this study were that: The fastest-growing spending conditions between 2013 and 2014 were infectious disease, mental illness, and diabetes. Health Populi’s Hot Points: The third chart shows consumers’ top-line for healthcare spending: that healthcare makes up 20.6% health citizen.

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Obese, Access-Challenged and Self-Rationing: America’s Health Vs Rest-of-World

Health Populi

In the Weighing Down America study, the Milken Institute gauged that health conditions related to obesity and overweight totaled $428 billion. healthcare spending in 2014. that can nudge the country’s health outcomes, healthcare costs, and health system performance for the better. Analyzing the U.S.