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The best explanation on Obamacare ever made (for 5-years-old) – From Reedit

The best explanation on Obamacare ever made (for 5-years-old) – From Reedit

Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: What people call “Obamacare” is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (abbreviated to PPACA or ACA). However, people were calling it “Obamacare” before everyone even hammered out what it would be....

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Dr. Robert D. Hunt: How and why tablets will transform mental health care !

Dr. Robert D. Hunt: How and why tablets will transform mental health care !

By asking the right questions and sharing data in real-time, tablets can be used to create more effective treatment for mental health disorders. The tablet industry is providing physicians with new opportunities to profoundly optimize their clinical practice. As a psychiatrist, I am most excited about the promise tablet devices and tablet-oriented technology holds for the...

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ANS investiga hospitais Santa Lucia e Santa Luzia de Brasília que teriam negado atendimento a paciente infartado

ANS investiga hospitais Santa Lucia e Santa Luzia de Brasília que teriam negado atendimento a paciente infartado

BRASÍLIA - A Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar (ANS) vai fazer diligências ainda hoje nos três hospitais por onde o secretário de Recursos Humanos do Ministério do Planejamento, Duvanier Paiva Ferreira, passou antes de morrer na madrugada da quinta-feira. O ministro da Saúde, Alexandre Padilha, acionou a ANS para investigar o caso. Ferreira, de 56 anos,...

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At Boston hospital, robots monitor patients’ recovery at home (SpringWise)

At Boston hospital, robots monitor patients’ recovery at home (SpringWise)

At Children’s Hospital in Boston, doctors are now in the midst of a pilot project in which patients take robots home with them after their stay, for help with post-operative consultations and care. We’ve already seen robots serve as “personal avatars” for employees working away from the office, but recently we came across what is potentially an...

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How innovation could transform Health Care? (by @fboermeester on @healthstartup ))

How innovation could transform Health Care? (by @fboermeester on @healthstartup ))

Innovation is a wonderful phenomenon.  It leads to all sorts of astonishing products and services like the internet and the tablet PC.  As big an impact these innovations have on our lives, it is in health care that innovation is of existential importance.  To be blunt, innovation in health care matters because most of us...

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How to live longer and happier lives ? (Dan Buettner/Blue Zones)

How to live longer and happier lives ? (Dan Buettner/Blue Zones)

1.  Move Naturally Americans burn fewer than 100 calories a day engaged in “exercise”.  We can get more physical activity naturally if we live in walkable communities, de-convenience our  homes by getting rid of power tools and grow gardens.  Walking is the best activity for longevity. 2.  Know your Purpose People who know why they...

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Healthtech Accelerator Rock Health Peels Back The Curtain On Its Second Batch Of Startups (TechCrunch)

Healthtech Accelerator Rock Health Peels Back The Curtain On Its Second Batch Of Startups (TechCrunch)

As Dave Chase wrote earlier this year, the healthtech space is heating up, and a lot of serial entrepreneurs with consumer web experience are turning their focus to fixing some of the big problems inherent in the legacy health systems we have today in the U.S. and abroad. Yet, in spite of the $1 billion...

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How Visualizing Data is Changing the Conversation in Public Health

How Visualizing Data is Changing the Conversation in Public Health

Is there a connection between your health and where you live?This link between community and health, and the inequity that can result, is not always intuitive, but the Connecticut Association of the Directors of Health (CADH), a membership organization of Connecticut’s 75 local health departments, is working to change that. The Health Equity Index seeks to make...

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Who are the ten most innovative companies in healthcare in America ?(Fast Company)

Who are the ten most innovative companies  in healthcare in America ?(Fast Company)

  01 / Epocrates >> For creating software that gives doctors and nurses instant information on drug-to-drug interactions, treatment recommendations, and more on their mobile devices or laptops. Coming up: mobile access to electronic health records. 02 / SynCardia Systems >> For giving mobility to artificial-heart recipients. Syncardia makes the world’s only FDA-approved completely artificial heart. Now, thanks to...

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10 maiores inovações na Saúde – Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit

10 maiores inovações na Saúde – Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit

Esse ano, o Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit focou em Tecnologias Cardiovasculares com o nome “State of the Heart”. O evento consistiu em 3 dias de apresentações estimulantes e painíes de discussão moderados por âncoras televisivos como Maria Bartiromo e Bob Woodruff. O painel destacou tecnologias que prometem mudar o setor, podendo transformar a maneira como...

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