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Winning the Battle Against Obesity – Digital Health Visions

The Medical Futurist

Instead, Kate downloads a report from her app and sensor, compiling all the data on her diet, activity, and achievements. Her cardio fitness values, cholesterol levels, and blood pressure have improved so significantly that her insurance provider has reduced her premiums. Is there a future where digital health thrives?

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Episode 263: Neurology VMR – Diplopia

The Clinical Problem Solvers

After college, she worked at Collective Health, a healthcare insurance technology company, and then completed her Master’s of Science in Global Health at UCSF where her research focused on understanding preferences for HIV care among people experiencing unstable housing. Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS

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Episode 282: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Although healthcare services are publicly funded, access to medications depends on private or public insurance and is linked with employment. April 4, 2023 Transcript Download CPSolvers App here RLRCPSOLVERS

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

In this first installment of a two-part series, “An Arm and a Leg” shares lessons from Bob’s experience navigating a maze of pharmacies and insurance companies to get his daughter the medicine she needs. Because… Dan: Bob’s new job meant… a new insurance plan for the family. He left without it.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

Read transcript and/or download & listen to MP3 below:  Physician burnout—symptom of a broken system “Burnout” has become one of the most talked-about issues in healthcare—but behind the buzzword lies a deeper crisis. You get your own insurance checks. I just got my first insurance check, this is actually working.

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