by Civic Telehealth | Oct 13, 2021 | Remote Patient Monitoring
The University of Michigan Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation (IHPI), https://ihpi.umich.edu, which describes itself as “the nation’s largest university-based group of health services researchers,” conducted a poll on healthy aging in January, 2021. The...
by Civic Telehealth | Aug 25, 2021 | Remote Patient Monitoring
Civic Telehealth focuses on enabling those with a variety of chronic conditions, as well as healthy people wishing to focus more carefully on their well-being generally to get access to remote patient monitoring (“RPM,” also sometimes called remote physiologic...
by Civic Telehealth | Jul 6, 2021 | Congestive Heart Failure
In congestive heart failure (CHF), the heart is unable to pump out to the body all the blood returned to it by the veins. Doctors say the heart has lost some of its “contractility.” As a result, blood tends to back up into the chest, where it can interfere with...
by Civic Telehealth | Jun 21, 2021 | Remote Patient Monitoring
As one of my professors used to say, high blood pressure (“HBP”, or hypertension), is “common as pig tracks in south Georgia.” Although estimates vary, most students of the subject agree that nearly one-half of adult Americans have elevated blood pressure, and many do...
by Civic Telehealth | Jun 17, 2021 | Health
For all the harm it has done, the pandemic may not have been all bad. It seems to have encouraged more people to take more responsibility for and control over their own care, and to have educated themselves more thoroughly not only with respect to COVID but in...
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