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How Personalized Healthcare Technology Is Revolutionizing Patient Care

Strategy Driven

This includes everything from personalized treatment plans to customized wellness strategies. This type of personalized healthcare is possible thanks to advances in genomics, big data analytics, predictive modeling, diagnostic testing, and population health.

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WHE05: New Tools for Health Care Consumerism | with Clayton Nicholas from Change Healthcare

Engaging Leader

Health care consumerism is a key part of most employers’ strategies for workforce health engagement. This involves tools, resources, education, and motivation to help employees and family members make decisions that optimize health outcomes and cost-effectiveness. What types of decisions?

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The Potential For Human Augmentation

The Horizons Tracker

The ability of technology to augment humanity is not a new one, but with the release of generative AI in 2022, there were renewed calls for tech to help humanity rather than replace it. Augmenting humans Some technologies are still new and not clear in how they’re used, and not many people are using them.

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Examining Disparities and Opportunities in Older Adults’ Engagement with Patient Portals

The Horizons Tracker

Equitable access “This change makes access to secure portals even more important for older adults who want to see their doctors and other health care providers virtually. It also makes the disparities we found in our poll even more troubling,” the researchers explain.

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How Telehealth Improves Obstetric Outcomes

The Horizons Tracker

The study conducted a comprehensive review of studies on telehealth interventions across family planning, obstetrics and gynecologic conditions, and found that those patients seen via telehealth platforms often had better outcomes. “It would also be helpful for overcoming barriers to adoption of clearly beneficial technologic advances.”

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WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement

Engaging Leader

Workforce health engagement: improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity. The post WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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How Our Phones Can Predict The Onset Of Depression

The Horizons Tracker

“ Simply put, current health care standards are mostly just asking people how they feel and then writing a prescription for medication. The approach utilizes machine learning and takes into account a number of factors related to each individual, including their sleep diet, brain activity, exercise, stress, and cognitive function.