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Gait: The sixth vital sign that should be a routine part of primary care

Medical Economics

© japolia - stock.adobe.com In primary care, vital signs are a window into a patient’s current condition. Tomer Shussman, MSc © OneStep It’s time to recognize gait as the sixth vital sign — and to integrate it into the way we practice preventive care. Watch how they walk. But only gait tells us where we’re headed.

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Elevate Patient Experience in Dental Care: Northwest Suburban College’s Patient-Centric Dental Assistant Training

Northwest Suburban College

Dental Assistants play a significant role in enhancing patient experiences throughout their dental care journey. With responsibilities spanning beyond technical tasks, they forge strong connections with patients, helping to create a positive and comfortable environment within the dental clinic.

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Common Myths About Medical Assistants

Scrubs

They can often perform clinical duties like taking patient vital signs, administering injections, and assisting with minor surgical procedures. At the same time, they manage administrative tasks such as scheduling appointments, billing, and maintaining patient records.

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Physicians Lean In to Digital Health, Especially Telehealth and Remote Monitoring

Health Populi

Readings are visible to patients and transmitted to the physician’s office. Alerts are generated as appropriate for missing or out of range readings.”

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

The first graphic shown here illustrates the authors’ view on the digital evolution of HaH from delivery of care (migrating from in-person to fully virtual), telecomms (from telephone to embedded HIPAA-compliant video conferencing), and remote monitoring, moving from patient-reported data of vital signs to wearable sensors.

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Consumers’ and Physicians’ Growing Embrace of Digital Health via PwC

Health Populi

As patients-as-consumers grow more comfortable with telehealth, remote health monitoring and using consumer-facing digital health tools, they’re also envisioning the possibility and viability of more medical area at home.

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

Health Populi

As part of the connected care patient journey, and also to enable hospitals to balance scarce capital and labor resources, Philips imagined how patients dealing with COVID-19 could step-down from intensive care to lower-intensity settings.

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