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Bonus Features – October 30, 2022 – 46% of Americans have gone into debt paying medical bills, 41% say retail and virtual care experiences are disjointed, and more

Healthcare IT Today

ixlayer launched self-testing kits for Vitamin D, Lyme disease, sexually-transmitted infections, and thyroid function. Linus Health published research in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience validating its tool for assessing biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease. Clinical pharmacy service provider Aspen RxHealth launched its payer platform.

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

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The promise of personalized medicine is a world in which interventions, screening, and therapeutics are targeted to those most likely to get the disease. Polygenic risk scores will help society reach this ambition by accurately assessing the contribution that one’s DNA makes to disease risk. . Many factors affect your risk of disease.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, researchers found higher rates of cardiovascular diseases and poor outcomes among people today whose neighborhoods were redlined in the 1930s. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. SDoH data can help us identify and help these people—perhaps even before they have diagnosable diseases.

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Health Provider News – February 3, 2023

Hall Render

Joe’s to buy part of big Onondaga County orthopedic surgery center for $25 million NewYork-Presbyterian nurses push back on alleged doubling of retiree healthcare costs New York hospital names 1st surgeon CEO Northwell VC arm backs company detecting emotions with AI in $12.7M