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Cough Monitoring Solutions: The Current Digital Health Landscape

The Medical Futurist

We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. These could even make cough monitoring as common as step tracking to inform individual patients and provide doctors with deeper health insights.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Here, we collected the top dermatology apps to aid your digital skin care. There are widely varying figures, ranging from 66% to 90% depending on the source of information.) Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.