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Covid-19, Subway Stops And Health Equity: How Digital Health Platforms Help Reduce Disparities In Care
Fortunately, as the importance of SDoH has become more recognized and data has started to come in showing the returns on investment that programs to address SDoH can yield, plans are increasingly dedicating more resources to addressing them.
Care At The Counter: Technology And Policy Are Empowering Pharmacists
On the flip side, for community pharmacies, it’s been a call to action to revisit the role that pharmacists can play in improving care management and consumer health engagement, especially for those with chronic conditions, in a Covid-19 world.
What Digital Health Entrepreneurs And Investors Can Do To Combat Disparities In Health
In 2002 the average life expectancy for a person born in the United States had reached 77 years old, an increase of 7 years over a forty year period, reflecting an impressive 10 percent gain.
Can Platforms Help Reduce The $935 Billion In Wasteful Healthcare Spend?
The healthcare industry is particularly ripe for platforms to add value.
Covid-19 Is Fueling A Digital Therapeutics Revolution, But The Road To Maturity Travels Through The Four Healthcare ‘Ps’
In just a few short years, digital therapeutics (DTx) have become an exciting, incredibly competitive new frontier in healthcare. DTx deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions to patients via software applications, and help to prevent, manage or…
One Tech Firm’s Quest To Save Independent Physicians — And Our Healthcare System
Forty percent of primary care providers said they weren’t sure their practices would be open through August, according to The Primary Care Collaborative’s survey fielded in late June.
Home Health Care Is A Bright Light During Covid-19 With An Even Brighter Future
Home health care encompasses a wide range of services that can be delivered in a patient’s home, including injections, post-operative and chronic wound care, rehabilitation, physical therapy, intravenous or nutrition therapy, etc.
(Part Of) What We Need To Battle Covid-19: A National Health Information Network To Replace The Fax Machine
Hospitals in many areas are becoming overwhelmed, laboratories are racing to process thousands of tests and report results, and public health agencies are drowning due to continued widespread use in health care of a communications technology most young…
Platforms And Pandemics: Embracing Digital Health Platform Disruption In The COVID-19 Era
Of the key lessons that COVID-19 has served up on a silver platter, one of the clearest takeaways is that the U. S. healthcare system is not set up to handle a public health pandemic like the novel coronavirus.
