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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices. and abroad was the topic of a recent Georgetown University Health Policy Seminar.

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Nutrition and dietary guidelines: stirring the (policy) pot

The Health Policy Exchange

At first glance, federal nutrition policy seemed to be an unusual topic for our Georgetown Health Policy Seminar for family physicians. They must learn to work in interprofessional teams with dietitians and other skilled health professionals to help patients make needed dietary changes. and MyPlate.

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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

To supporters of the Affordable Care Act, legislative expansion of the Medicaid program is a welcome financial and health care bonanza for states and uninsured patients. Long-term care services (nursing homes, mental health, home health care) accounted for 3 in every 10 dollars that the program spent.

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