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Big Data Helps Drive the Future of Virtual Healthcare

Smart Data Collective

Big data technology is shaping the future of healthcare. Global healthcare companies are projected to spend over $105 billion on big data by 2030. One of the biggest benefits of big data in healthcare has been in the field of virtual healthcare. Demand for virtual healthcare services exploded during the pandemic.

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Legislative battle continues over how to address health care costs in North Carolina

NC Health News

He was diagnosed with severe Crohns disease Isaacs immune system had decided that his own intestines were an enemy. Isaacs immune system was on high alert and could continue to attack his intestines. She spent hours on the phone between the company, pharmacy and the physician. Hes now 10 years old and back to playing soccer, she said.

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Suicide Prevention Month: Latest Advances Shaping Suicide Response

Bamboo News

With such high prevalence, healthcare providers and governments face increased pressure to innovate and improve existing crisis response processes. Such alerting systems allow providers to have greater patient insight and establish follow-up support programs so that the individual can remain in the continuum of care until recovered.

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Report on Georgia Latinos: Legal status and language among barriers to health

HEALTHBEAT

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Latinos, who make up at least 11% of the state’s population, face serious barriers to health care, especially mental health services, according to the State of the Latino Community in Georgia report released Tuesday.

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Homeless sweeps thwarting health care in California as medicine, ID lost

HEALTHBEAT

On the ground, health care experts and homeless service providers say the law enforcement crackdown is undercutting taxpayer investments in evidence-based treatment and housing services that are being deployed by cities and states around the nation as politicians look to the health care system to aggressively move people off the streets.

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“Hospital Mergers Kill”: An Economists’ Exercise in Reality Distortion

The Health Care Blog

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur.

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From abortion to Hurricane Helene to medical debt, here’s what drew readers to NC Health News in 2024

NC Health News

As we look back on the year that was, some of the most-read NC Health News stories included articles about Helenes effects, from its upheaval of municipal water systems to the use of cadaver dogs and other issues that arose during the aftermath of the havoc generated by the storm. Roy Cooper told NC Health News during a Sept.