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Why Patient Collaboration and Adherence to Treatment Plans are Critical to Functional Medicine
The importance of patient collaboration and adherence to treatment plans for the success of functional medicine care cannot be overstated. But they are not without their challenges. Strategies to overcome these barriers are required to ensure functional medicine...
Understanding the History and Foundations of Functional Medicine
The origins and development of functional medicine can be traced back to ancient and traditional approaches to healthcare that focused on the holistic well-being of the individual. These approaches often emphasized the importance of preventative care and natural...
7 Strategies for Successfully Growing Your Functional Medicine Practice
While there is a growing demand for functional medicine providers and practitioners, not all functional medicine practices succeed. The right strategies are needed to successfully grow any medical practice, including functional medicine. As more and more people seek...
The Biggest Challenges Faced by Functional Medicine Practitioners Today
While the demand and need for functional medicine continues to grow, the future outlook for functional medicine in the healthcare system is somewhat uncertain, as it faces a number of challenges as a professional medical specialty. Nevertheless, there are promising...
Top Online Tools that Help Functional Medicine Practitioners Improve Patient Engagement & Outcomes
Digital health tools that continuously guide, monitor and, most importantly, motivate functional health patients help produce better health outcomes and greater chances of reaching health goals. Leveraging digital tools to improve almost every healthcare service or...
Leveraging Technology: Helping Private Practices Control Costs and Improve Outcomes
Calcium’s perioperative management support platform enhances operations, patient relations Healthcare providers, no matter the specialty, face many challenges when trying to provide the best care possible to their patients include: Controlling costs and improving...
More than Just Annoying, Surgery Cancellations Are Costly and Largely Preventable
Your surgical team has assembled for an early morning procedure. You’re just waiting for the patient to be prepped and brought in. As you finish your preparations, one of your nurses enters and informs you that the patient had forgotten their instructions and had...
Can the Global Obesity Epidemic Be “Solved?”
Several solutions are available to help manage and prevent obesity—but we must work together This is the third and final article in a series on public health and chronic condition awareness in the United States that Calcium is sharing to highlight the importance of...
The American Obesity Epidemic: How Did We Get Here?
Obesity is getting worse despite increased knowledge of the problem In observance of the March 4 World Obesity Day, Calcium began a three-part article series concerning the obesity epidemic in the U.S. Our first article, World Obesity Day: Why We All Need to Move...
World Obesity Day: Why We All Need to Move Beyond Awareness to Action!
This is first in a series of insight and discussion articles addressing the obesity epidemic and the challenges faced by American healthcare providers and clinicians in their struggle to motivate patients to take greater control of their weight and health While it may...
Why Don’t Hypertension Patients Follow Their Treatment Plans?
[sc name="Image_alignment"] Healthcare Professionals Know How to Treat Hypertension — The Real Challenge Is Changing Patient Behavior To move the needle on this costly disease now affecting more than half of all adults in the U.S., a hypertension diagnosis and...
The Most Common Cosmetic Plastic Surgery Procedures in the United States
Since its emergence in the late 1960s, modern plastic surgery has become increasingly popular in the United States. Many would say, it is now commonplace and widely accepted. From celebrities who have been vocal about their cosmetic procedures to reality television...
Can Employers Require COVID-19 Vaccination Before Allowing Their Workers to Return?
The short answer is that it’s complicated: there are several issues to be considered before requiring your workforce to vaccinate. The increasing availability of COVID-19 vaccines, along with the recent FDA “emergency use authorization (EUA)” approval for a third...
An Overview of COVID-19 Vaccination for Employers (and Employees)
A handy guide for businesses and organizations planning their return to full normal The past year has been a crash course in advanced workplace safety and workforce health, in the face of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, for employers of all sizes. Most employers now...
Easing Your Employees’ Very Valid Reluctance to Returning to the Office
A recent study found that nearly 71% of workers in the U.S. do not feel completely safe in their employers’ facilities. The good news is that there are tangible steps that businesses and organizations can take to relieve much of their employees’ fears. It’s no...
Allowing Workplace Visitors during the COVID Pandemic
When it comes to visiting clients or vendors, how do businesses keep their workers and facilities safe from potential COVID exposure? As a business leader and manager, you have two fundamental challenges when it comes to safeguarding your employees during this...
HIPAA and COVID-19: What Businesses and Employers Need to Know About Privacy as They Combat COVID
While HIPAA regulations do impact how employers handle protected health information, the good news is that businesses have some latitude when it comes to COVID-19. The need to protect workers and workplaces has raised questions among many HR professionals and business...
How Pre-Op Guidance Can Lower Post-Op Complications / Readmittance
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Post-operation complications, especially those that result in having the discharged patient readmitted to a hospital or health system emergency room, significantly impact a surgical center's record, reputation, and overall...
Preventing Post-Op Admissions Due to Preventable Complications: A Guide for Surgical Centers and Clinics
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Preventable complications that arise after surgery and discharge can come very close to being malpractice. Here, "preventable" is the operative word. Complications will happen whenever interventions that impact the human organ...
Preparing for Wave 2: What Employers Can Do to Get Ahead This Fall
As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread across the world, it leaves behind a chaotic trail in its wake, causing loss of employment, loss of economic stability, and devastating loss of life. As a global population, we were caught unaware. However, as the months...
What Michigan businesses need to know and do as they return to work during the COVID-19 pandemic
The roadmap for reopening and re-engaging Michigan’s economy in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic has been published. Is your company ready? As the global COVID-19 pandemic deepened, Michigan enacted one of the strictest stay-at-home orders in the nation, starting on...
A COVID-19 Checklist for Human Resources Directors and Managers
As companies across the country begin to reopen or ramp up operations, the job of ensuring that employees are kept safe typically fall on the shoulder of human resources professionals. And it hasn’t been an easy task. Business leaders are increasingly turning to their...
COVID-19 employee screening tips to prevent this pandemic from entering your offices, facilities and worksites
While not foolproof, daily employee pre-screening for COVID-19 symptoms is important for lowering the risk of exposure for all employees The need to transition back to work is clear for most businesses. But how can businesses re-open or continue to operate safely when...
Calcium Offers Free Access to COVID-19 Symptom Tracker
Essential businesses can also use app to support employees’ health and manage reporting requirements CHICAGO, IL – Calcium, a digital health analytics company and creator of the world’s first consumer-driven health platform, today announced it is offering free...
COVID-19 Pandemic: Why Patients Need to Control Their Own Health Data
We’re in the throes of a global pandemic. Healthcare providers must focus on fighting COVID-19, but we can’t afford to ignore the reason we’re going into this fight blind. Our best weapon is our own healthcare data. We are going to learn many things from this...
One-size-fits-all gamification is not enough to improve patient outcomes
Around one in three of all adults suffer from multiple chronic conditions, many of which can be avoided or whose symptoms can be mitigated through diet and exercise. Medical professionals have long understood that patient engagement and adherence is the simplest...
Can digital health bridge the low-income gap?
We’ve known for a few years that income correlates with health in a major way. From the length of life to stroke risk to self-reported health status, the more access, opportunity, and means of upward mobility a person has, the better their projected health outcomes. ...
Treating the smartphone generation: How doctors are embracing mHealth to improve patient care
It’s been just more than a decade since the iPhone made its debut, but it’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t rely on our smartphones for nearly all aspects of our lives. According to the Pew Research Center, the share of Americans that own smartphones is now 77...
Making sense of the healthcare ecosystem and how technology is enabling people-driven health
Healthcare used to be much easier. The “ecosystem” consisted of you—the patient—and your doctor, the provider. If you needed medical attention or required a hospital stay, your doctor was in charge of coordinating your care. Healthcare works best when all stakeholders...
3 common threats to healthcare privacy
It’s a normal day, John strolls into his clinic clutching a steaming cup of coffee, as the beams of sunlight reflect from the tall glass windows that surround the reception area. Everything is as usual, a typical day in the life of a healthcare worker. John enters the...
Why consumer health data is the key to people-driven health
Digital technology and the age of big data have disrupted nearly every industry, and healthcare is no exception. While there have been cutting edge advancements to nearly all aspects of care, a significant gap remains between the promise of what is possible. That...
Now 2 decades old, does HIPAA have the muscle to protect patient rights?
Critics contend that some parts of HIPAA are hindering health tech innovation, while others argue it doesn’t protect privacy on emerging channels. HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, has been one of the most hotly debated pieces of...
3 Ways technology is returning individuals to the center of population health
Returning patients to the center of population health — and empowering them with the right tools — can help solve many challenges faced by population health programs. Ever since Greg Stoddart coined the term “population health” in 2002, health organizations, providers...
Too heavy to fight: How the obesity epidemic is threatening U.S. national security
The obesity epidemic has decreased the number of young Americans able to meet the physical conditioning requirements of the U.S. military. Obesity is no longer just a population health challenge. This nationwide epidemic is now an emerging national security threat....
Despite more data than ever, interoperability remains a barrier to patient-driven health
The people-driven healthcare movement holds great promise as a solution to today’s broken healthcare system. By empowering patients to take control of their own healthcare decisions and costs, we can improve quality of care, increase the efficiency of our healthcare...
Why isn’t our healthcare system easier and more transparent?
Today’s Health Consumers Want Easy Access to True Costs and Quality Services When we purchase something at a store, we’re given the price before we decide to buy. But when we go into the doctor’s office, we’re provided a service where we may (or may not) pay out of...