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Power of Cell Phones: How a Single Text Message Can Improve Refugee Health

We first started by asking how we could make an inherently inefficient process more efficient. How could we connect patients to clinics quickly, in a way that doesn’t burden resource- and time-limited clinics? We wanted to prove that a text message alone would bring a patient back to the clinic. Instead of spending time calling …

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Patients say deploying a patient portal isn’t enough to engage them

Much has been made of the push to better engage patients, but little has been spent on examining exactly what patients want. Despite the requirements set by the EHR Incentive Program, simply deploying a patient portal isn’t enough to engender real, sustainable engagement. Recently TechnologyAdvice surveyed 409 adult Americans about their digital health services preferences. I …

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The future of medicine and the incredible innovations we can expect by 2064

The Fred Alger Management team reached out to me recently asking what innovative changes I thought the medical and healthcare industry will be going through over the next 50 years. It was for their innovative “Think Further” series.   As Yogi Berra famously quipped “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future” but Alger’s …

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How health IT enables safer medical travel and tourism

IT innovation, global medicine and frustrated medical patients drive the demand for medical travel. But telemedicine also improves patient care and the customer experience of medical travelers. Once again, we welcome medical IT entrepreneur, Agha Ahmed, Managing Partner of GHIMBA, as we explore how IT innovations help patients get high-quality healthcare outside of the USA. …

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Finding Our Voice: Sharing our Disability Experiences to Seek Empowerment and Affect Change

Understanding disability is a rising issue among the Muslim community. It is a topic that is not frequently discussed and often ignored. As a result, Muslim individuals with a disability feel left out affecting their self-esteem and thus their mental health. To combat this issue, simple steps are being taken within the local community to …

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Mountains or Molehills: Depression, Suicide, and Your Help

Depression. One of the most commonly used terms to describe a number of emotions: sadness, apathy, or just the blahs. True depression, however, is mostly misunderstood. Depression includes symptoms such as a reduced interest in normal activities, insomnia, fatigue, diminished ability to think clearly, and recurrent thoughts of death, which may include suicidal ideation (DSM-V, …

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