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Cedars-Sinai Expands Virtual Healthcare for Children & Spanish Speakers

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What You Should Know: Cedars-Sinai is expanding virtual healthcare for children and Spanish speakers in California through its mobile app Cedars-Sinai Connect, a fast-growing online option that allows patients to quickly access top healthcare professionals for acute, chronic and preventive care. and weekends from 8 a.m.

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AR/VR in Healthcare: Why Collaboration is its Most Important Use

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Wyatt Oren, Director of Sales, Telehealth and EdTech, Agora Throughout history, new and emerging technologies have helped revolutionize and advance the field of medicine, allowing medical professionals to develop groundbreaking new procedures, work towards cures to previously incurable diseases, and much more.

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The future of technology can make your hospital a model of care and efficiency

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By Martin Jones Current and emerging medtech change how hospitals, clinics, and medical practices deliver care. The role of technology in healthcare According to Deloitte, 92% of survey respondents consider better patient experiences the “top desired outcome from digital transformation.

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Patients benefit from AI-powered care navigator at Columbia Memorial Health

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"We also were keen on enhancing the overall patient experience," said Dr. Ronald Pope, vice president of medical services, care centers, at Albany Med-Columbia Memorial Health. THE PROBLEM CMH’s digital presence was not able to capture all the business opportunities in its area of influence.

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Prescribing Trends Surge: Wegovy & Ozempic Gain Popularity, Survey Shows

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– Prescriptions for Ozempic, the lower-dose version for treating diabetes, increased by 65% during the same period among doctors on the DrFirst prescribing network. including 260,000 doctors, who use their prescribing apps and solutions to transmit prescriptions. .

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High Drug Costs Threatening Affordability of Employer-Sponsored Healthcare

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Constance Sjoquist, Senior Healthcare Analyst with RazorMetrics Large employers report that the biggest threat to self-funding medical coverage is the increasingly high cost of pharmacy claims. Ninety-one percent of employers cited million-dollar treatments approved by the FDA, and 89% pointed to specialty drug spending as a top threat.

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Mass General Brigham CMIO on AI: 'exciting, but a little anxiety-provoking'

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Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of features on top voices in health IT discussing the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare. To read the first feature, on Dr. John Halamka at the Mayo Clinic, click here. To read the second interview, with Dr. Aalpen Patel at Geisinger, click here.

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