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Parkview Health brings diabetic retinopathy tests closer to the patients

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Living with diabetes is challenging. THE PROBLEM In addition, those living with diabetes must take care of themselves by performing daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly tasks to stay ahead of the chronic condition. So is treating it, with a myriad of factors determining or influencing a person’s health.

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Banner Health reduces generalized anxiety with digital therapeutics

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serving more than eight million patients across six states in the Southwest. Allowing the digital layer to be available to patients with mild and moderate depression and anxiety allows care teams to have a new type of tool to provide care in this population, he said.

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Tufts Medical Center to pilot nutrition screening in EHR

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By creating food and nutrition insecurity screening within Tufts Medicine’s Epic electronic health record and patient engagement system, the new Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute in Boston and its team of medical, science, technology and health policy collaborators hope to further food is medicine science.

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POGO Automatic Blood Glucose Monitor Now Covered by Medicare Part B

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a medical technology company committed to making it easier to live with diabetes, announced today that its POGO Automatic® Blood Glucose Monitoring (ABGM) system, featuring one-step testing, is now covered by Medicare Part B. million seniors age 65 and up living with diabetes. What You Should Know: – Intuity Medical, Inc.,

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Health Plans: Tackling Diabetes Disparities for All Americans

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Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of Podimetrics Sukanya Soderland, SVP, Chief Strategy Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts During Diabetes Awareness month (November) – and every month – someone is having a limb amputated due to diabetes every three-to-four minutes here in the United States.

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At Providence, RPM is improving patient health and reducing provider workload

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Many of the virtual care and digital health systems in development, as well as those pursued over the past several years, are geared toward addressing three macro challenges healthcare currently faces: workforce shortages and burnout; hospitality capacity and throughput; and care fragmentation or patient access.

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

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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. "One of the most obvious and tangible examples of this is technology that detects elevated blood-glucose levels, a red flag for prediabetes or diabetes. an estimated $3.7