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An app a day: Enabling the digital doctor
By fusing innovative digital solutions with existing healthcare knowledge, communications and high-tech companies and the health industry are developing cost-effective new ways to engage patients and deliver care, anywhere, anytime.
“Wait—are you playing my video game?!?”
Billy was shocked at the...
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Building a low-cost system
As Lord Nigel Crisp points out, there has often been a regrettable tendency among emerging health economies to copy some of the least effective elements of high-cost Western healthcare. Hospital dominated systems with sophisticated technology can seem attractive but...
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Running smoothly: Fast and effective joint replacements
According to the Singapore Ministry of Health, the number of knee and hip replacement surgeries in the country totaled 2,641 and 647, respectively, for the period December 2012 to November 2013. With an increasingly aging society, the number of...
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CLOUD SERVICES RAISE THE BAR ON PATIENT CARE
Upgraded, cloud-based IT enables Steward Health Care to improve collaboration and raise the bar on patient care.
Formed in 2010, Steward Health Care is the second largest healthcare system in New England. It has quickly grown from an original group...
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SILVER SURFERS ARE CATCHING THE E-HEALTH WAVE – Digital has no age limit
How Medicare Plans can Attract and Engage the Aging Population Through Digital Channels
With 10,000 people turning 65 daily in the United States over the next 17 years, health plans know they cannot ignore the aging population.1 What many do...
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Making HEALTHCARE More TRANSPARENT
One of the most significant topics of this year’s HIMSS 14 Conference is transparency of patient data.
Far from endangering data privacy and safety, giving people electronic access to their medical records can induce them to take better care...
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OPENING A 3-D WINDOW
Thanks to a new technology that rapidly, robustly and automatically integrates real-time ultrasound images with previously-acquired 3-D computed tomography images, doctors can see inside the body as never before, thus performing needle biopsies and ablations with confidence.
Whoever thought that...
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