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See all 273,325 articlesThe magic of mobile "health" moments
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...phone with behavior change – the concept of a micro mobile moment (MMM) for health. There is now a term to describe what... to provide the consumer with ‘that’ which they need when ‘that’ is all that matters. Health is seemingly the last frontier...
The Case for a True Health Coalition: Who Hears Whom?
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...forever confused about the fundamentals of a health-promoting dietary pattern, there is a new fad diet to sell every day, or at... world’s leading health experts live and eat far more like one another than any or us lives and eats like the “typical...
Can Apple Watch and Other Wearables Improve Health of Sickest?
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...asked all the time about the wearable device impact on health – do they really help people lose weight? What do you use? What are they missing when it comes to monitoring health? What will they look like in five years? Who will have a bigger impact...
Health IT: The Promise of Interoperability
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The promise of interoperability for health IT is that it can help knit together our fragmented, disconnected health care... , hospitals, health care professionals – indeed, all of us – are currently paying the price for our fragmented, disconnected...
Predictions for 2015: Uber, Apple, Google, China, Health, Adtech
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2015. My eleventh year of making predictions. Seems everyone’s gotten onto this particular bus, and I’m now late to the... changes how we view our relationship to health data and services. One such startup will become the darling of the press and the...
Solving the Biggest Health Care Challenge of Them All
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...a significant impact on a population. In health care, the following clearly illustrated this concept: “HOW 15% OF SENIORS... USA Today. The story showcases the scope of the challenge facing the health care industry as the baby boomers age into...
Health Data Security in Crisis, Phase 2 Audits, and Other HIPAA Privacy + Security Updates
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...and resources we’re finding. We have split the health/HIPAA material from our updates on other topics. To see our updates for... action plan (CAP) HHS critiqued for not issuing enough fines for health data breaches (April 2015) [Link] -- Sisi Wei and Charles...
The Pope, the Planet, and Public Health
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...-long mission has been preventing disease, promoting health, adding years to life and life to years. What we know reliably... planetary stewardship, the modern trends in public health are shaped not by individuals, but by cultural patterns. Decisions or...
The Health Data Breach and ID Theft Epidemic
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...ruptured aorta. In January of this year, an article citing U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) statistics noted that in the past 5 years, there have been roughly 120,000 reported data breaches involving HIPAA protected health...
Mobile Health Services-a breakthrough model for serving rural population
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...which India accounted for 56,000 – a staggering 19%! The new-born health challenge faced by India is bigger than that... . Among the many health system bottlenecks and other special issues that we face, key ones include: Early marriage and adolescent...
The 10-Point: The Presidential Race, Iran Nuclear Talks, Health-Care Deals and More
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...Tie-Ups Breaking on WSJ.com: It’s shaping up to be big day for health-care deals. UnitedHealth Group is set to acquire... Optum health-services arm of the health-care giant. And in Europe, Zimmer Holdings has secured approval in the European Union...
Health Promotion? Here's the thing...
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There is no shortage of health promotion efforts in our world. Everyone hears about them all the time, and those inclined to tune in here to what I have to say may be better informed in this area than most.We have health promotion programs in...
Why HIPAA Matters: Medical ID Theft and the Human Cost of Health Privacy and Security Incidents
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...identity theft, health identity-theft victims can remain on the hook for payment because there is no health-care equivalent of... restore credit, pay health-care providers for fraudulent claims and correct inaccuracies in their health records." The WSJ...
The 10-Point: U.S.-China Relations, Health Law Enrollment, FX Settlements and More
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...uncomfortable interactions at the APEC event. Health Reading As the second chapter of open enrollment under the U.S. Affordable Care... Hispanics will be one of the Obama administration’s biggest challenges when it reopens the health law’s insurance exchanges on...
Gates Annual Letter's Big 2030 Health Goals: How Do We Get Them Done?
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By Jeffrey C. Walker and Ellen Agler, CEO of the END FundTo accomplish the big bets in health that Bill and Melinda Gates... health systems for sustainable improvements; Empower local communities and country-level leaders even more than we do today and...
Jeffrey Walker
Vice Chairman, United Nation's Secretary General's Envoy for Health Finance and Malaria
5 Innovations in Global Health: Maybe not what you were expecting
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About two months ago, The Guardian’s Global Health team asked me to contribute five innovations that I thought would be revolutionary in global health. After brainstorming with my colleagues at D-Rev, I submitted a list, and after a few weeks...
Investing in Community Health Workers Was the Best Thing We Did in our Fight Against Ebola
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...Conference in Addis Ababa on July 13, 2015 In May, the World Health Organization declared Liberia “Ebola free” after forty... neighboring Sierra Leone and Guinea, one vital measure for epidemic preparedness has emerged: a robust community health system...
Jeffrey Walker
Vice Chairman, United Nation's Secretary General's Envoy for Health Finance and Malaria
The 10-Point: Effects of Cheap Crude, a Health Care Hack, Net Neutrality and More
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...prices--had begun to slide) Health Care Hacked Another large database of personal information has been compromised. This time, it’s at the country’s second-biggest health insurer in what is likely to be the largest data breach disclosed by a health...
Can We Spend Less on Sickness and Gain More Health?
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...medicines are entering the system that further improve health, extend longevity and are more cost and clinically effective than existing treatments. The result is that as a nation we have better health and would expect to see this improvement in...
Apple & IBM Team Up For New Big Data Health Platform
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...’s Watson Health cloud-based healthcare analytics service. The initiative will potentially bring the benefits of crowd... illness as well as prescribe treatment and assist in the design and testing of new medicines. Watson Health is powered by...
