Falls Prevention Programs are Helping the Aging Population Overcome Physical and Emotional Barriers to Well-Being in an Easy and Effective Way
The following is a guest article by Dr. Byron Crowe, M.D., Chief Medical Officer at Solera Health.
For millions of older adults each year, even a small mishap such as tripping over a rug or sliding on a damp floor can have far-reaching consequences when it results in a fall. As individuals get older, reductions in strength and balance increase the risk of an unexpected fall, with substantial implications for individuals and population health.
The Burden of Falls on Older Adults
Between 2010 and 2020, the U.S. population of those 65 and older grew by more than a third. And by 2030, those older than the age of 65 will mak...
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Featured Health IT Job: Support Technician – C.N.A.
We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Support Technician – C.N.A. position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by Arrowleaf and is in Vienna, IL.
Here’s a description of the position:
About Us
When you join the Arrowleaf team, you are committing to a meaningful career where your work will make a difference for your neighbors throughout Southern Illinois and strengthen our region as a whole. You’ll have a chance to build well-being not just for the people you work with, but for yourself a...
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Healthcare Devices Combined with Intelligent Remote Patient Monitoring from OMRON Healthcare
VitalSight is a new tool for remote patient monitoring (RPM) from OMRON, a company that offers a wide range of health devices for blood pressure, respiratory problems, and more.
RPM is the order of the day for health care. Monitoring, together with providing data-based guidelines for patient behavior, is a crucial component of telehealth and a key building block of value-based care, where an improvement in the patient’s condition is more important than the number of clinical visits.
Payers have been covering devices like the ones offered by OMRON for decades. VitalSight can be reimbursed under similar codes.
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Unlocking the Future of Health —and Care—with AI
The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck, Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab.
Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s, but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.
Now, AI is effective across the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The benefits are already being felt by many: 92% of healthcare institutes and professionals say they performed better as a ...
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Elaborate Announces $10M in Funding to Modernize Lab Results
Elaborate’s technology offers doctors a way to contextualize health data and deliver clear, action-oriented communications to their patients
Elaborate, the tool that doctors and their staff use to deliver contextualized, action-oriented lab results to patients, announced today it has raised $10 million in Seed funding. The funding round was led by Tusk Venture Partners, with participation from Founder Collective, Company Ventures, Bling Ventures, and Arkitekt Ventures, as well as renown investors such as Elliot Cohen (Pillpack, Amazon), Sara Wajnberg (Oscar), Scott Belsky (Behance, Adobe), and Sean and Peter...
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