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6 Ways ER and Urgent Care Nurses Can Bridge the Gap for Uninsured Patients

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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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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

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More Americans would also be more likely to use at-home tests for genetics, blood tests connected to apps, tests for infections pre-visits to a clinician, sharing stool samples for gut microbiome testing, and apps to gauge heart health. consumers 18-64 years of age assessed the state of medical debt in the U.S.

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

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Philips continues on its “journey into Connected Care,” as Roy described the current trajectory as the company has pivoted directly into the heart of the coronavirus pandemic with health care systems around the world. It’s also an enormous stress test of the [health care] system. The new medical home is…home.

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Patients’ Expectations for Health Beyond Care: Think Food, Exercise, Emotions, Sleep and Finance

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The second graphic taken from my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , illustrates those social determinants of health beyond medical services. A sensitive conversation about sex, drugs, rock ‘n roll, faith, purpose… that information isn’t generated by a lab test or a digital image.

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Human-Powered Health: How Abbott Is Unlocking the “Possibility of You” at CES 2022

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“This strengthens (patients’) relationship with doctors extending care beyond clinic walls,” she has found, leveraging the convenience and flexibility of remote care to provide the best therapy possible. Gupta manages the first telehealth operation of its kind in the U.S.

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