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Breaking new ground in healthcare with the next evolution of AI
Because the commencing of modern day drugs, the arc of innovation has sent earlier unimaginable breakthroughs and treatments that have improved overall health outcomes and lengthened lifespans. We are now in an era the place digital transformation is redefining the way corporations solution affected individual engagement, treatment group collaboration and the supplier encounter. From greater access to affected individual facts by means of digital health and fitness information (EHR) to improved obtain to health care by way of telemedicine, know-how has supplied providers remedies that help greater efficiency and, most importantly, enhance the good quality of care offered to individuals. But there is an prospect to do more. The health…
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Is California breaking its promise to cut health care costs?
Brian Iv works in a factory in Orange County, earning around $26 per hour. He suffers chronic pain from a lifetime of manual labor jobs and previous workplace injuries, but often treats the pain with home remedies or traditional Cambodian practices. Going to the doctor is too expensive, he said. Iv recently got a raise and was able to purchase health insurance through his company, but for a long time he had a Covered California Silver Plan, a mid-tier plan under the state’s version of the federal Affordable Care Act marketplace. A visit to a primary care doctor cost nearly $50, and every time Iv picked up a prescription it…
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Transcript: Breaking the Stigma: Women’s Health
UnlockThis article is free to access. Why? MS. STEAD SELLERS: Good morning, and welcome to Washington Post Live. I’m Frances Stead Sellers, a senior writer here at The Washington Post. My first guests today are going to be talking a lot–about a lot of issues that are unique to women’s health, and first of all, we have Laura Modi, who is the co-founder and CEO of Bobby Organic Infant Formula. We’re also hoping to have Simmone Taitt, who is the founder and CEO of Poppy Seed Health. And, Laura, let’s start with you right away, if we can. The clip at the end of our introduction was all about the…
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Our fraying health care system is reaching a breaking point
The oft-heard chorus “talk to your health practitioner …” is a joke. It is practically impossible to access one’s major care doctor even if we have one. Founded practitioners are leaving in droves, possibly for retirement or, if they have prominence, concierge exercise. Curiously, the collapse of most important care medicine has obtained scant community consideration. In contrast to overall health insurance policies coverage, access to physicians is absolutely nothing to rally for or protest from. Of equivalent concern is the Faustian discount made by doctors to give up control of their practices in trade for working fewer hrs. As a end result, primary treatment doctors are not obtainable to see their individuals…