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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

This survey, conducted in 2019 among 1,359 U.S. ” The key findings on changes from 2016 to 2019 were: An increase in the number of physicians seeing an advantage in using digital tools, even among physicians 50 years and older. Readings are visible to patients and transmitted to the physician’s office.

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

The report outlines health/care industry issues for 2019, with a strong focus on digital health. Health Populi’s Hot Points: A column in JAMA published January 11, 2019 discusses Personal Health Records: More Promising in the Smartphone Era?

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

Philips, recently named as one of the largest Fortune Global Companies in 2020 (#385, up 46 spots and ranking in the top 10 largest public health care companies in the world), has been working globally with health systems since the emergence of the coronavirus in Wuhan, China in 2019. equipment and hardware).

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

He is wearing his BioIntelliSense “BioSticker” which communicates vital sign metrics, used along with Philips remote patient monitoring program. In particular , I learned so much from a conversation during CES 2019 with Sean Carney , Philips’ Chief Design Officer.

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Why You Should Become A Medical Assistant?

Bell-Brown Medical Institute

Good Salary Is Not A Problem Medical assistants are in high demand, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that this field will grow by 19% between 2019 and 2029. The median annual wage for medical assistants was $33,610 in May 2019, but those with more advanced degrees can earn salaries of $40,000 or more.

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Medical Assistant Training Program

MedAssistantEDU.org

As per the data, nearly 725,000 medical assistants were working in America in 2019. As per BLS, the highest paying state for medical assistants in 2019 were- Alaska: $45,630 Washington D.C.: They support the physicians and fulfil multiple roles to keep the healthcare facilities functional.

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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

Sepsis screening, for me, comes in many different flavors -- from EMR alerts based on lab and vital sign data to anyone being able to draw a lactate or call an RRT. If there is one thing a medicine resident or hospitalist should be able to do well is identify the patients who are sick and need attention.

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