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How Medicare Plans can Attract and Engage the Aging Population Through Digital Channels With 10,000 people turning 65 daily in the United States over the next 17 years, health plans know they cannot ignore the aging population.1 What many do...

One of the most significant topics of this year’s HIMSS 14 Conference is transparency of patient data. Far from endangering data privacy and safety, giving people electronic access to their medical records can induce them to take better care...

Thanks to a new technology that rapidly, robustly and automatically integrates real-time ultrasound images with previously-acquired 3-D computed tomography images, doctors can see inside the body as never before, thus performing needle biopsies and ablations with confidence. Whoever thought that...

Welfare Denmark is addressing the health care challenges—rising costs and aging populations—that municipalities around the world face. It developed Virtual Rehabilitation, an interactive platform based on Kinect for Windows, which supports movement, voice, and gesture recognition. Physiotherapists use Microsoft...

A $56.3 million redevelopment began in 2005 on the RMH Emergency Department. The project, completed in October 2009, has significantly expanded ED capacity to 106 beds to cater for an anticipated 65,000 attendances per year by 2015. Royal Melbourne Hospital...

An Accenture survey among 3,700 doctors in eight countries reveals that today’s doctors are going digital—now more than ever before. In fact, the recent. Accenture Doctors Survey showed a spike in healthcare IT usage across all countries surveyed (Australia, Canada, England, France, Germany, Singapore, Spain and the...

HIMSS Asia Pacific India Chapter organized a roundtable discussion on the National Health Portal project of the Ministry of health & family welfare at JLN Auditorium, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi on 8thJune. The idea behind...