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Nurses are the most trusted profession in America, followed by doctors and pharmacists

Health Populi

Nurses rank top in Americans’ minds for the seventeenth year-in-a-row, Gallup found in its annual survey of honesty and ethics in professions. Gallup conjectured that in 2017, some consumers were associating pharmacists with contributing to the opioid addiction crisis (that discussion covered here in Health Populi ).

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Ren Ci Nursing Homes in Singapore to implement 3D wound management app in 2019

Mobi Health News

Created in response to the challenge of wound management in the community care sector in Singapore, the CARES4WOUNDS wound management application was developed and pilot-tested with 25 patients at Ren Ci Hospital and Tetsuyu Healthcare since November 2017, with good initial results.

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Nursing home Covid-19 deaths – the NY Times data shouts – but what is it saying?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The NY Times decided that tracking down and mapping the list of nursing home deaths nationwide required more than 30 contributing writers for the story. The ‘Nursing Homes in Crisis’ collection is about Covid-19 in 2020. Why are people in nursing homes? Women make up the majority of nursing home residents.

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Nursing home deaths – the NY Times data shouts – but what is it saying?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The NY Times decided that tracking down the list and mapping nursing home deaths nationwide merited more than 30 contributing writers for the story. The ‘Nursing Homes in Crisis’ collection is about Covid-19 in 2020. Why are people in nursing homes? You probably know the reasons -- but let us recap. Lawyers are at the ready.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

By 2017, she was finishing active treatment and emerging victorious against pretty big clinical odds, only an 8% chance of five-year survival. Stacy was fighting for home nursing services for Emmett. “I In 2018, Stacy launched her website, began blogging, and got social media traction when HIMSS appointed her a digital influencer.

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Americans’ Trust in the Healthcare System Low Compared to Rest-of-World’s Health Citizens

Health Populi

Among these people, healthcare trust fell by 20 percentage points between 2017 and 2018, a “crash” (Edelman’s descriptor) from 75 percent to 55%. Finally, the pharma industry ranked fifth of five segments, with only 38% of Americans trusting pharma companies, dropped by a whopping 13 percentage points over 2017.

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Consumers Changing the Channel on Where They Shop for Health

Health Populi

Overall, 2017 to 2018 year-on-year, HBW sales were flat-to-no growth, notwithstanding the consumer and influencer buzz around the categories. GMDC and AT Kearney had a meeting in June 2017. While sales for HBW via FDM channels were pretty flat between 2017 and 2018, “the basket is upgrading,” Knight said.

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