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Top Pain Management Technologies

Electronic Health Reporter

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 50 million American adults had chronic pain in 2016. The article Top Pain Management Technologies appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. That is a whopping 24 percent of the population unable to go about their daily […].

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Virtual Reality Pain Management with Children

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Virtual reality (VR) pain management apps and other technologies have been developing for over a decade to help children struggling with chronic pain conditions and rehabilitation. They reviewed and summarized various programs developed and utilized VR pain management with children. The Hospital for Sick Children.

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XRHealth Secures $6 Million in Funding Led by Asabys Partners and Welcomes NOVA Prime as a New Investor

Healthcare IT Today

The company offers a variety of patent-pending solutions from rehabilitation services to cognitive assessment and training to pain management. Founded in 2016, XRHealth is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and its R&D center is located in Tel-Aviv, Israel. XRHealth works with several world-renowned U.S.

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

Society for Participatory Medicine

Five years later, I developed a questionnaire for Sickle Cell patients in hopes of improving their pain management. Because I had developed the pain questionnaire, administration asked me to be the Sickle Cell Coordinator for Care Advisor. In 2016, she was awarded the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

By the end of the year we will see the use of Virtual Assistants by patients to help interact with their health data and "transact" via voice technology to order repeat prescriptions, pain management and medication requests. Voice technology also has massive potential for clinical drug trials.

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Virtual Reality Applications in Workers’ Compensation Reviews

Advanced Medical Reviews

VR headsets offer new mediums for therapy and pain management. Improved Pain Management and Rehabilitation. The audio-visual fidelity of VR-assisted telehealth is also useful in the management of pain for WC patients. VR can be the next step in such high-definition telemedicine.

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XRHealth and Amelia Virtual Care Announce Merger, Creating the Largest XR Therapeutics Platform in the World

Healthcare IT Today

The company offers a variety of patent-pending solutions from rehabilitation services to cognitive assessment and training to pain management. Founded in 2016, XRHealth is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and its R&D center is located in Tel-Aviv, Israel. XRHealth works with several world-renowned U.S.