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On World Food Day 2018, Imagine A Chef Cooking for Patients

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World Food Day 2018 has four objectives: Don’t waste food. This is one of my family’s choices to engage in DIY healthcare to bolster our well-being and minimize our health risks given what we know-we know from family history, lab tests, and lifestyles. Produce more food with fewer resources.

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Tools for Paying Medical Bills Don’t Help Health Consumers Manage Their Financial Health

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There’s a gap between the supply of digital health tools that hospitals and health systems offer patients, and what patients-as-consumers need for overall health and wellbeing. This chasm is illustrated in The future of the digital patient experience , the latest report from HIMSS and the Center for Connected Medicine (CCM).

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

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step in the right direction” CBS News 8 San Diego covered a caregiver and cancer patient’s experience with a live shot of their thick binder, containing CDs with medical images and data from these various provider institutions laying on top of a pile of letters and lab test results.

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Going Digital for Health Is a New-Normal for Consumers

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consumers, including Seniors, found in the 2018 digital health consumer survey from Deloitte. adults in February and March 2018 for this research, conducted in English and Spanish. Using digital health tech is a new normal for U.S. That’s the consumer-demand side of the equation. Deloitte surveyed 4,530 U.S.

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Consumers Want Help With Health: Can Healthcare Providers Supply That Demand?

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And maintaining good mental health and staying on-track with health goals come close to managing uncovered costs, Oliver Wyman’s 2018 consumer survey learned. But this time around, polling health-insured consumers in July 2018, Oliver Wyman perceives a change in consumers’ “willingness to try new kinds of health services.”

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The Retail Health Battle Royale in the U.S. – A Week-Long Brainstorm, Day 2 of 5 – Amazon and One Medical

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With PillPack, I wrote here in June 2018 that Amazon got 50 U.S. He points to the dominance of voice assistant Alexa, the Astro household robot, and other consumer-generated data from Amazon’s ecosystem which can be mashed up with others’ (say, from wearable technologies like Fitbit or Withings, lab tests, etc.).

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Surprise, Surprise: Most Americans Have Faced a “Surprise” Medical Bill

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Most of the surprise bills were for charges associated with a physician’s service or lab test. adults 18 and over in August 2018. Most surprise charges were not due to the service being excluded from a health plans provider network. The poll was conducted among 1,002 U.S.

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