Tue.Jun 01, 2021

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a whole lot of digital transformation for people staying home. For digital natives, that wasn’t such an exogenous shock. For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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The In-Between Spaces

Center for Health Progress

Since February, I have been working alongside our members, member leaders, and volunteers to ensure greater access to the COVID-19 vaccine in Pueblo County. Our work is focused in the communities that many people call “hard-to-reach,” but we know it’s not our fault the state’s distribution system doesn’t reach us—it’s theirs. Their system was never designed to reach us, let alone meet our health and health care needs.

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Put Patient Recall Software to Work for You This Summer

Solution Reach

As we find ourselves suddenly in the month of June – the month when summer officially begins, when so many people begin taking vacations – it’s a great time to take inventory at your practice. Are you prepared for the next couple months when it comes to scheduling and reminding patients of upcoming appointments? Are you and your team working harder or smarter ?

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Advocating for continuous improvement

Osf Healthcare

By empowering OSF leaders to identify needs and challenges within their facility, the Performance Improvement department within OSF Innovation, is giving Mission Partners a stake in the improvement of products, processes or services that impact our patients.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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How technology is improving patients’ experiences for leading endocrinologist

Twistle

We recently got a chance to connect with Asheesh Dewan, MD, an endocrinologist and founder of The DOCS , Nevada’s only American Diabetes Association Certified Center and a designated “Center of Excellence” for Medtronic, a manufacturer of insulin technology. Dr. Dewan’s practice treats more than 44,000 endocrinology patients annually, successfully helping his patients navigate their diabetes treatment and use medical devices to manage their conditions.