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Is Gait The Most Overlooked Patient Vital Sign?

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The five commonly known vital signs – temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation – provide critical information in assessing and predicting a patient’s health status. Her prior experience includes working within the rehabilitation and orthopedic settings as both a permanent and travel therapist.

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Enhancing Physical Therapy With Artificial Intelligence

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Population-level data also offers insight into overarching trends in various populations, which can then be used to implement population health strategies or new treatment protocols and monitor intervention efficacy. In fact, research shows that the patient-doctor relationship is crucial and directly impacts the entire treatment experience.

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How Israel’s Largest Medical Center Used AI to Save Lives During Israel-Hamas Conflict

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This period has taught us valuable lessons in crisis management and the value of strategic adoption of health technologies. We’d like to share some of the considerations we have navigated for integrating health technology to meet the new challenges that war thrust upon us.