Explore the evolving personalized healthcare industry, key drivers, technologies, and market projections for the coming years. Personalized healthcare (PHC) is a new approach to medical treatment and care that customizes the interventions to the individual features of each patient. Where traditional healthcare models take a generalist approach, prescribing similar treatments to wide populations, personalized healthcare is based on a patient’s unique genetics, lifestyle, and environmental factors to identify the right treatment or prevention plan. It uses advanced technologies such as genomics, big data analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) to evaluate these factors and deliver a more accurate, effective, personalized healthcare solution. Additional examples include precision…
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Joyce E. Pugsley, 74, passed away on March 18, 2025 at Cobacker House, Columbus, Ohio. Joyce was born in Lima on March 28, 1950 to the late Leonard and Janice (Smith) Crowsing. On January 29, 1972, she married David Pugsley, who died on December 30, 2017. Joyce worked as a certified nursing assistant in Cridarville, Lima (Lima and Otterbyne). She also worked as a private home nurse at Chase Bank. Joyce attended the Gods' meeting at the Calvary Temple. She was active at the Lima Garden Club and the Town and Country Quilt Club. Joyce and her husband enjoyed fishing…
Miamiaria nursing home owners must pay frontline staff for unused paid leave after failing to protect themselves from charges of unfair labor practices. Last week, an administrative law judge in favour of the 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East failed to elicit answers after attempting to serve former Krystal Bay Nursing and Rehabilitation Center owners and managers. Advisors to the National Labor Relations Committee called for a resolution of the case without hearings or “substantial” evidence given that the Management Party did not want to participate in the board's legal proceedings. This was the second major lapse of communication in…
According to Altarum's monthly health sector economic indicators, which were released Wednesday, spending on nursing homes was the slowest in January. For the first time in months, home health care is not the fastest growing category, up 6.1% year-on-year, Altaram Fellow and senior researcher George Miller told McKnight's business every day. Among the major spending categories, annual growth from December to January was the largest in retail sales of prescription drugs at 8.3%. The data represent a reversal from previous reports, indicating that among the main spending categories, annual annual growth through December 2024 was the largest in home health…
The VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System initiative has significantly reduced waste and environmental impacts while saving costs associated with pulmonary function testing (PFT). The facility implemented a new standard operating procedure (SOP) for reusing albuterol inhaler, reducing inhaler usage by 91.1%, resulting in cost savings of over $46,000 within six months.Inhalers containing hydrofluorocarbon propellants contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, using Medicare inhalers (MDIs) where Medicare inhalers (MDIs) generate more than 1.1 million tonnes of community for Medicare and Medicaid patients each year. Albuterol inhalers alone account for 60% of these prescriptions.In November 2023, the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System…
arculus by ComposeCure, and IT Lab, said Thursday (March 20), will launch a blockchain-compliant ecosystem for healthcare providers in the US market in the second quarter. The company's solutions will be integrated into clinical networks and act as a secure passkey to record, manage and protect healthcare data within the facility using MedTech devices, according to a press release on Thursday (March 20). The solution, according to the release, will be enabled by circular blockchains and security and software offerings from Arculus. During use, ecosystem solutions include physical cards that hold private keys that allow authorized administrators, operators, and patients…
China-2024/06/23: The illustration in this photo shows American healthcare business HCA healthcare …(+) (NYSE: HCA) logo appears on your smartphone with an economic stock exchange index graph in the background. (via Getty Images Photo Illustrations by Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/Lightrocket)Lightrocket via SOPA Images/Getty Images One of the biggest losers of Mag 7 during the revenue season was Nvidia (NVDA). I called the top of the NVDA in August 2024 and after reporting excellent revenue, I'm not surprised to see it falling sharply. The story of valuation not being important is disproved right in front of our eyes. If you follow my…
Waynesville, N.C. (Fox Carolina) – A former executive manager of a senior assist living facility in western North Carolina has been sentenced to prison under an embezzlement scheme.Amy Elizabeth Curry worked as an office manager and bookkeeper at Silver Bluff in Canton, but made more than 150 fraudulent bank transfers from the facility's account.Between December 2022 and April 2023, Curry embezzled at least $1.5 million.She deleted wire transfer history from Silverbluff's bank account, preventing other employees from receiving notifications about the relocation. She also incorrectly wrote that the transfer was for pay.In fact, Curry used the funds he embezzled for…
NSW Health is taking a transformative journey to modernize and streamline its technology systems. The NSW Ministry of Health has the role of “system manager” for the NSW public health system. More than 228 hospitals in New South Wales face fragmented data, inefficiencies in coordinating patient flow and care, and need a platform that can curate and integrate data from numerous sources in real time. The creation of a statewide operational data store (ODS) supported a platform that provides visibility into patient journeys in environments with multiple patient management systems and electronic medical records. This ODS is now feasible by…
According to a new study from the University of Surrey, health professionals need to help better support in recognizing and treating the symptoms of eating disorders in people living with type 1 diabetes. Disabled diets in people living with type 1 diabetes are often referred to as T1DE. Diabrimia is an example of T1DE, a dangerous eating disorder that involves intentional misuse of insulin for weight loss. Leading by Dr. Katie Fitzgerald and overseen by Dr. Rose Marie Sazare, Sally's new research highlights the challenges healthcare professionals face when recognizing and treating T1DE. This study, published in Diabetes Medicine, found…