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The Health Insurance Premium for a Family Averages $25,572 in 2024 – KFF’s Annual Update on Employer-Sponsored Benefits

Health Populi

Putting the microscope on increases in premiums, worker contributions, workers’ earnings (the paycheck), and overall inflation, shows variability depending on the era we’re looking at, Figure B illustrates these trends by four time periods: 2004-2009 (the latter years of which marked the Great Recession); 2009-2014, which experienced the (..)

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Elation Health Announces $50M Series D for Innovative Primary Care

Healthcare IT Today

Generation Investment Management and Ascension Ventures co-led the round for Elation’s primary care platform supporting practices in new payment models and more than 12.8 Elation Health , the clinical-first technology company powering innovation in primary care, today announced a Series D financing round of $50 million.

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Building Trust and Truth in Patient Social Networks

Health Populi

Those were the early days of the formation of patient social networks [Patients Like me was founded in 2004, and WEGO Health and Stupid Cancer in 2007]. .” Trust and truth underpin health engagement, we learned in the first Edelman Health Engagement Barometer launched ten years ago.

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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. They would stay a few days, get fluids, and get Phenergan around the clock for nausea, and narcotics for pain.

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Update: How empathy, education, communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell patient care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Florida, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. Because I had developed the pain questionnaire, administration asked me to be the Sickle Cell Coordinator for Care Advisor.

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Diabetes patients given access to their Electronic Medical Records achieved improved Glycemic control

Lloyd Price

Objective: The objective of this review is to explore the use and impact of having online access to computerized medical records and services for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in primary care. No limitations were placed on study design, though we applied detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria to each study.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. Sixty percent said social media improves the care they deliver.” I’d like to discuss what I believe are five areas of significant opportunity for quality technologies.