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Improving Patient Care Through Technology Orchestration

by YuliaApr 04, 2023

As healthcare shifts towards a more patient-centric approach, health providers across the world are looking for innovative ways to enhance the patient care journey. The infusion of software solutions into the healthcare industry has helped providers improve the overall patient experience. One of these solutions is Care Orchestration, a method that uses Information Technology (IT) to improve the care journey. Care Orchestration can be defined as the coordination of many complex computer systems, servers and applications in a way that enhances the care journey. In a clinical setting, Orchestration allows for a simplification of patient workflows and an overall improvement

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Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)

by YuliaMar 25, 2023

HEDIS is a set of performance measures that are used to compare health plan performance and measure the quality of health plans. These measures were created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). About 90% of health plans use HEDIS as a standard to measure the performance of their plan. The data is tracked from year to year to measure the performance of the health plan and thus provide information regarding the population served.

The data that is collected is used to monitor the health of the general population, evaluate treatment outcomes, etc., and the data is collected

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How to Build Healthy Eating Habits with These 21 Simple Tips

by YuliaJan 27, 2023

When it comes to food, everyone takes a different approach. How—and what—you choose to eat is unique (or at the very least, it should be!). From food preferences to religious traditions and habits, many factors influence your grocery basket. And this is a beautiful thing. We’re bio-individuals, after all. In many ways, what you eat is a celebration of your lifestyle, beliefs and goals. Accessibility and appetite play a part, too. That said, many of us have lost our ability to have a normal relationship with food. In turn, we embody a fearful and resentful attitude toward eating. Hello, diet

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On healthy eating, we’re still set up to fail

by YuliaJan 22, 2023

In case you missed it, there’s been a cake-related furore in the news this week. Professor Susan Jebb, chair of the Food Standards Agency and professor of diet and population health at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, infuriated office workers across the country when she said in The Times that if people didn’t bring cakes into the office, she wouldn’t eat them.

“Horrendous Nanny Statist”, the Institute of Economic Affairs labeled her. Twitter users called her untrustworthy, accused her of having impulse control issues and posted taunting pictures of their cakes (“Prof

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Patient Centricity as the Future of Digital Health Management

by YuliaJan 14, 2023

Digital health is an all-encompassing term that refers to the care provided through eHealth and mHealth through advances in computing sciences.

Challenges or Gaps in Traditional Care

Major technological challenges faced by the healthcare industry have got to do with data processing, cybersecurity, and providing a user-friendly experience. However, advancements in each of these fields have proven to be profitable, and will continue to do so. Our focus here is more to do with the user experience aspect of digital health management.

There are quite a number of digital health care providers, rather, platforms that avail services outside the traditional

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