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ChatGPT's potential impact on preventative care and emergency visits

Healthcare It News

ChatGPT has been making an impact on enduring healthcare challenges. Many providers and patients are reporting the artificial intelligence helping with preventative care and preventing non-emergent emergency department visits.

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Equiva Health, Gilda's Club, healthcare providers leverage affordable broadband funding

Healthcare It News

Gilda’s Club Twin Cities, part of the national non-profit Cancer Support Community network, and Equiva Health, a digital patient engagement company, are partnering to provide stand-alone devices configured for at-home use as part of an oncology-specific initiative to address health disparities through discounted broadband funded by a $14.2

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APAC to double down on home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care

Healthcare It News

Home hospitalisation, tech-enabled preventive care, and genomic data-driven personalised care are some of the emerging trends in care in the Asia-Pacific region. Pondering the same question, Dr Han said it remains a challenge for providers to efficiently collect and analyse a patient's everyday data for preventive care.

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Heart Disease: Still the Silent Killer Despite Prevention Options

HIT Consultant

Perhaps more, striking, however, is that many, if most, of these deaths, were preventable. While we do not have a vaccine to protect against hypertension, there are preventive measures that can be effective. So why, even with these prevention options, does heart disease remain the silent killer?

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare It News

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. And if more consumers embrace preventative care that can easily be done in the home. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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Why The Time Is Now for Healthcare Provider Cloud Migration

HIT Consultant

Rick Froehlich, President and Chief Executive Officer at ClearDATA It’s no secret that healthcare is a slow-moving industry. Once data is shifted, the real trick is keeping it all secure, especially for data that’s more sensitive, as is typically seen in the healthcare industry. as well as through the cloud provider’s infrastructure.

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Asking Your Healthcare Provider the Hard Questions

CDC

Read the blog below, authored by Evelyn McKnight, to learn more about preventing unsafe injection practices. Healthcare providers reused syringes during administration of my chemotherapy, which led to 99 people, including me, contracting hepatitis C.