The two top uses cases for analytics in healthcare are financial and care quality measures, according to a Dimensional Insight report. Healthcare IT News sister company HIMSS Analytics conducted the survey. WHAT THE DATA SAYS Among the 110 senior healthcare leaders polled, about a third of those organizations that have not yet deployed analytics… Read More »
We humans do not appreciate our sense of smell. Compared to other senses like vision and hearing, we tend to ignore the information from our sense of smell with the exception of flowers, food being prepared and, of course, those lucky people who have discovered aromatherapy. But according to a recent documentary, “Smell — Our… Read More »
Katie BuckleitnerGetty Images Thanks to things like the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act and Title X funding, access to birth control is, in theory, a right in the United States. But in practice, a vast majority of women who rely on publicly funded contraception in this country live in places where they can’t… Read More »
As POZ readers well know, the Deep South is our country’s ground zero for HIV. In fact, nearly 52 percent of the 38,739 new HIV cases in 2017 occurred in Southern states, and the groups at greatest risk of contracting the virus include young gay, bisexual and transgender people of color. And yet one of… Read More »
Alcohol, Caffeine, Exercise, Lack of Sleep Are Most Common, UCSF Study Finds A personal survey of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), one of the most important causes of irregular heartbeats, has found that the majority of triggers for the condition are easily modifiable lifestyle choices, including alcohol, caffeine, exercise and lack of sleep. The findings,… Read More »