Health Populi

DECEMBER 19, 2018

It would not be surprising to know that when the Great Recession hit the U.S. in 2008, one in three Americans delayed medical treatment due to costs. Ten years later, as media headlines and the President boast an improved American economy, the same proportion of people are self-rationing healthcare due to cost. That percentage of people who delay medical cost based on the expense has remained stable since 2006: between 29 and 31 percent of Americans have self-rationed care due to cost for over a

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Healthy Debate

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Patient access to health records is changing as more and more information is available electronically, How does that change the way providers take notes?

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Health Dialog

DECEMBER 18, 2018

This is the second installation of our “Overcoming Barriers to Medication Adherence” blog series. Read our introductory blog post to learn the common characteristics of medication non-adherence and how to identify the patient-level barriers to adherence. The most frequent reason given for not taking medication properly is poor time management. Many distractions get in the way of taking medications as prescribed; forgetfulness, lack of a medication-taking routine, competing priorities, complex m

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 20, 2018

For the first time, we can take a clinically accurate blood pressure measurement from our wrist — welcome to the first of its kind wrist-worn blood pressure monitor, HeartGuide, brought to market by Omron. I know this journey has been a long, patient one, as I came to know Ranndy Kellogg, Omron’s President and CEO, several years ago at CES.

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