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5 Women Nursing You Need to Know About Today

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She was appointed the RCN Northern Ireland director in 2019 when nurses were about to go on strike. She also mentors and teaches nurse managers and physician medical directors at the University of Colorado Hospital and Colorado Children’s Hospital when it comes to areas of leadership, operations, safety, and process improvement.

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Heart Health at #CES2019 – Food and Tech as Medicine

Health Populi

Self-care is the new health care as patients, now consumers at greater financial risk for medical spending, are learning. At #CES2019, I’m on the lookout for digital technologies that can help people adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that can help consumers save money on medical care and enhance quality of life-years.

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What’s Causing Fewer Primary Care Visits in the US?

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For context, I re-visited a similar recent study on this topic, published in the November/December 2019 Annals of Family Medicine, looking at national trends in primary care visit use between 2008 and 2015. Primary care promotes effective communication with patients and encourages the role of the patient as a partner in health care.

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Mastering Prior Authorization Roles: Responsibilities and Training Demands Explored

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Engagement in Prior Authorization: Duties and Training INTRODUCTION: The prior authorization (PA) process is critical in providing some patients with their medically necessary products. It ensures that what the patient receives is medically appropriate for their situation.

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Can a Food-As-Medicine App Extend Chronic Health Management at the Grocery Store?

Health Populi

He is collaborating with Dr. Robert Lustig as Chief Medical Officer, a pediatrician well-known for his evangelism about the deleterious role of sugar in the human diet. Foogal was developed by Todd Knobel, who has worked in law, in plastics, and in various entrepreneurial ventures.

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Wasted: $1 of Every $4 Spent on Health Care In America

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health care system, calculating that 25% of medical spending in America is wasted. medical spending. The second largest waste component was pricing failure, associated with medication pricing failure (the largest piece of three components), payer-based health services pricing failure, and lab and ambulatory pricing. of the U.S.

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Top Physicians and Clinicians to Follow in Digital Health

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She currently works as hospice medical director in Maryland. She is a medical advisor to One Key Virtual Care, a remote caregiving reporting and monitoring platform. She is passionate about improving access to high quality care and develops patient-centered digital health solutions to bridge the gap between technology and healthcare.

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