The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

This often-overlooked connection between routine medical care and opioid dependence demands urgent attention. How Physicians and Hospitals Sustain the Opioid Epidemic For decades, the pharmaceutical industry has shaped medical education, ingraining the belief that opioids are the best first-line treatment for acute pain.

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Electronic Health Reporter

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The American Medical Association (AMA) has created a new resource to help physicians extend care beyond the exam room with technologies that are “changing the way patients interact with healthcare.” This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter.

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Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

In today’s healthcare environment, emergency rooms and urgent care centers are often the first points of contact for the uninsured. These patients face unique challenges, from high medical costs to limited access to necessary treatments.

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Finally, Deloitte asked consumers about their willingness-to-try emerging technologies, including surgical robots that assist surgeons in procedures, virtual clinical assistants, robots to assist caregiving, voice assistants for medication management support, and drone delivery for prescription drugs to enable a new model for “mobile pharmacy.”

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Enter the second chart, which expands what we traditionally have called “home healthcare” into new areas for care at home. Typically, home healthcare has covered (definitionally and in terms of reimbursement) services addressing activities of daily living, durable medical equipment, and hospice.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

Another facet of telehealth is in helping to scale intensive care units (ICUs). In health systems with high-demand for COVID care, Philips has seen intense demand to extend care via “eICUs” which enhance productivity in scarce resource situations. The new medical home is…home.

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Health Populi

APRIL 25, 2023

In addition to making cutting out waste in healthcare spending Job 1, OECD also notes that medical errors also represent waste in clinical settings, and that employing trained clinical workers to function at the top of their abilities could also be a useful strategy for cost-saving and extending care for access.

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