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Amazon Restructures Healthcare Division and Renews Commitment To The Trillion Dollar Industry

Forbes Healthcare

Nevertheless, Amazon has made some innovative efforts, including its acquisition of PillPack in 2018, its various telehealth service offerings, and its more formal movement into primary care with the acquisition of One Medical in 2023. But this has not always proven easy, given how cumbersome and intricate the sector remains.

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Healthcare Data Breach Statistics

The HIPAA Journal

You can view our H1, 2024 Report here.You can also receive a free copy of our HIPAA Compliance Checklist to understand your organization’s responsibilities under HIPAA. There was no letup in cyberattacks on healthcare organizations in 2023, which set two new records – The most reported data breaches and the most breached records.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Kendra Coles

Minority Nurse

In this role, she oversees a team of 125 FTEs across various units, including Labor & Delivery, Postpartum, Pediatrics, and Special Care Nursery. This series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and making significant changes in the nursing field. Talk about your role in nursing.

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Health Populi

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies. ” The U.S.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Marliyn “Nia” Wright

Minority Nurse

As a result, the initiative’s name was changed to the Cultural Diversity and Workplace Advocacy Collaborative, and in 2018 Wright became the Executive Sponsor of the Collaborative. The series highlights healthcare leaders who are prominent figures in their organizations and are making transformational impacts in nursing.

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Loneliness, Public Policy and AI – Lessons From the UK For the US

Health Populi

There’s a shortage of medical providers in the United Kingdom, a nation where healthcare is guaranteed to all Britons via the most beloved institution in the nation : The National Health Service. This initiative resulted in a strategy for tackling loneliness in the United Kingdom. million people in Britain.

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The Opioid Epidemic and Foster Care: The Opioid Epidemic’s Forgotten Victims

Relias

The opioid epidemic has continued to make a devastating impact across the United States. By 2018, this number had risen to 46,802. Foster children were often placed in unsafe environments, and once they aged out of the child welfare system, they had insufficient resources helping them effectively transition to adult independence.