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Doctors don’t have time for digital

World of DTC Marketing

QUICK READ: Patients are returning to their doctor’s office, and it’s not uncommon for appointments, or routine visits, to be scheduled weeks or months in advance. When I sent an email to my doctor’s office, I was shocked when she said the earliest appointment she had for physicals was in September.

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Insurance companies putting profits ahead of patients

World of DTC Marketing

Unfortunately his insurance company, he pays $1400 a month for additional insurance, said no and put him in a nursing home for three days. Doctors have long asserted that prior authorization — the need to get approval from the patient’s insurer before proceeding with treatment — causes delays that can hurt patient care.

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Does CVS have a crystal ball into the future?

World of DTC Marketing

You can find anything on Amazon, but soon you will be able to “see” a nurse, a doctor, or get a diagnosis using telehealth within minutes, from the comfort of your home. Amazon is developing AI models for surgery which “has the potential to reduce cost and complications of certain surgeries by 40 to 50%.

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How to Reduce Your Chance of Medication Errors

Triage Cancer

Lastly, nurses can give a patient the wrong medication, or give a medication at the wrong time. Share this list with your doctors – they often don’t know what other doctors prescribe. Tell your doctors about any medication-related allergies and/or side effects. You could develop an adverse drug reaction or other issues.

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Top 10 Healthcare Innovations of 2024, Per TIME’s Best Inventions List

XTalks

Developed with Johns Hopkins University, Bayesian Health’s adaptive AI platform uses real-time data to detect critical conditions like sepsis with 82 percent sensitivity — alerting doctors 5.7 Bayesian Health’s AI platform analyzes patient data from electronic medical records to identify those at high risk.

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Sensing robot healthcare helpers being developed at SFU

Scienmag

The current pandemic highlights how remote healthcare robots currently being developed at SFU could be beneficial in the future Credit: Simon Fraser University Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future.

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Giving Back: Once a Lung Transplant Recipient, Now a Surgical Nurse

The Pharma Data

30, 2020 — Nurses are known for being kind, caring and sympathetic, but Brianna Fogelman brings an uncommon empathy to her nursing job at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore. Though she had always planned to become a nurse, it wasn’t until after her transplant that it felt like more of a calling, Fogelman said.

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