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How Routine Medical Care Fuels America’s Opioid Crisis

The Healthcare Blog

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

Health Populi

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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

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Nurses can be crucial navigators by providing information on hospital financial assistance programs and flexible payment plans. Most healthcare facilities have protocols in place to assist uninsured patients in applying for emergency Medicaid or charity care programs, which can significantly reduce or even cover the cost of treatment.

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

Health Populi

aren’t broken out in the report, but globally, one-fourth to one-third of health citizens appear interested in these new techs to extend care beyond the office and hospital. 85% of these patients believe health care costs in general are “too high.” .” Detailed results for the U.S.

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Health Happens at Home: Lessons from the Parks Connected Health Summit

Health Populi

Hospitals, clinicians, long term care and other legacy health care system players must collaborate with the folks on the right side of the chart to provide continuity of care to people at home, if we are to realize the vision of connected health where people live.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Health Populi

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

Health Populi

This is not “health care,” Dr. Saxon described. It’s “life care.” ” Connected health devices help health care extend beyond the hospital’s walls, Dr. Saxon noted. Gupta manages the first telehealth operation of its kind in the U.S.

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