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Buying Health Insurance from eHealthInsurance.com

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Visit http://www.ehealthinsurance.com/ for free online health insurance quotes. Compare health plans and buy health insurance online.

Health care in America can be complicated…

With all of the disruption, finding something you can actually afford is harder now than ever.

That’s why eHealth has started to offer low-cost medical insurance packages…

What’s a medical insurance package?

Great question.

Medical insurance packages combine supplemental insurance products together, sometimes with other types of products, so that a customer can apply for insurance in a single process.

With each package look to provide three key benefits:

— the first is catastrophic coverage for large medical bills;

— the second is coverage for certain out-of-pocket costs, so you’re not crushed by a night in the hospital or a ride in an ambulance

— the third is coverage for certain routine medical care, like a certain number of visits to the doctor.

We also give you the option to add other products, such as telemedicine benefits and discount cards for prescription drugs, as well as dental and vision insurance.  

Whenever possible, we work with one insurance company to offer these benefits in a single package, often at about half the typical cost of a major medical or “Obamacare“ health plan.

Why do these plans cost less than Obamacare plans?

Because they provide fewer benefits than Obamacare plans.
They may be a great fit for people who do not want or cannot afford the full set of benefits of getting an Obamacare plan.

But, you need to be aware of their limitations.

In most states you’ll find a medical insurance package with the eHealth logo on it.

When you see our logo, that means we’ve built the entire package with one insurance company providing each of the products in the package.
You could buy these insurance policies separately at eHealth.com, for the same price.

BUT, buying a package from a single insurance company can make it easier for you to file a claim, coordinate benefits, and get reimbursed.

And, if you ever have problems,  you’ve only got one insurance company to call.

AND… if that doesn’t work,  you can call us – as you’re broker, we’re your advocate whenever you’re not getting what you need from your health plan…

At eHealth we know health insurance is useless if you can’t afford it.

Whether you need a major medical plan, or a medical insurance package that fits your budget, let our team at eHealth help you find coverage that’s right for you. Come to our website or speak with our telephone representatives to learn more about the important differences between a medical insurance package and a major medical plan to see which one is right for you.

eHealth.com – We make health insurance easy.

Tri-C Health Career Programs

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Tri-C Health Career Programs

Cuyahoga Community College is a leader in health careers education, offering 20 heath care related programs. Most health career programs are two years in length and lead to an Associate in Applied Science Degree. Tri-C also offers short-term certificates and awards in many health career programs.
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Exercise, Nutrition, and Health: Keeping it Simple | Jason Kilderry | TEDxDrexelU

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Exercise, Nutrition, and Health: Keeping it Simple | Jason Kilderry | TEDxDrexelU

The speaker is very passionate about exercise, nutrition and health. He reflects that in the talk.

Jason found his passion for athletics, health, and fitness at an early age. Throughout his childhood, Jason’s athletic career revolved around basketball and baseball. When he reached high school, Jason decided he would one day like to enlist in the military, which led him to focus on his increasing his overall health and fitness on a regular basis. Inevitably, his enrollment in the military did not occur. But all the training he had done in preparation for the military left Jason in the best shape of his life, and that is when he truly realized his passion for health, fitness, and endurance sports. Jason started pursing a career in the health and fitness field at a local community college, and then transferred to Rowan University, where he also ran cross-country. Juggling academics, athletics, and a part-time job as a personal trainer was difficult, but it allowed Jason to realize that balancing all aspects of life is a challenge most health and fitness enthusiasts face

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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William Paiva: Transforming health care and medical education through clinical Big Data analytics

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Health care is undergoing significant transformation, and digital health data is at the center of this change. According to the Centers for Disease Control, nearly 80 percent of the nation’s health care institutions have converted to an electronic medical record (EMR) system from the old paper-based system. New technologies like smartphone applications are also creating new stockpiles of digital data. Genetic data is growing as well; scientists can sequence a person’s entire DNA within 24 hours and for less than ,000. Collectively, the amount of digital health data is expected to grow from 500,000 to 25 million terabytes over the next five years.

Why do we care that our health information is now in a digital format? How does it benefit all of us?

People who work in health care—and every industry for that matter—are smart, well trained, and do their best to stay up-to-date with the latest research, methodologies and trends. However, it is not rational to assume individuals have the depth of knowledge or data access to deal with every situation they encounter. Furthermore, the health care field is already understaffed, and this issue will only get worse as the looming mass retirement of baby boomers from the health care workforce creates an unprecedented supply-and-demand crisis.

Digitized health data has the potential to help mitigate this troubling situation. Predictive medicine uses computing power and statistical methods to analyze EMR and other health-related data to predict clinical outcomes for individual patients. Beyond health outcome forecasting, predictive medicine also can uncover surprising and often unanticipated clinical associations.

Oklahoma State University’s Center for Health Systems Innovation (CHSI), through its Institute for Predictive Medicine (IPM), is a leader in the exploding field of predictive medicine thanks to the unprecedented donation by Cerner Corporation of its HIPAA-compliant clinical health database, one of the largest available in the United States. Specifically, this dataset represents clinical information from over 63 million patients and includes admission, discharge, clinical events, pharmacy, and laboratory data spanning more than 16 years.

Over 20 full-time CHSI employees and nearly two dozen graduate students are working to execute the CHSI mission to transform rural and Native American health through data analytics. Further, CHSI has a number of ongoing partnerships with academia, health systems and corporations to extract value from digitized health data.

One example of CHSI’s numerous predictive medicine projects is an effort to help physicians determine whether the performance of particular cardiovascular drugs varies by gender or race, or both. Conversely, this study will help indicate which drugs perform poorly or even cause complications in these populations. Other CHSI studies are designed to give physicians insight into whether patients with a particular disease are likely to develop or already have an associated disease, which will aid in co-managing these conditions and lead to better health care. Another project is designed to help hospitals use data on patient demographic characteristics, comorbidities, discharge setting, and other medical information contained in comprehensive EMR systems to determine if patients are at high risk for being readmitted for disease-associated complications. If patients are considered high risk, they can get the care and support necessary to prevent frequent cycling through the health care system.

Predictive medicine can also lead to the creation and implementation of tools for managing larger patient loads, which can aid health care providers in dealing with supply-and-demand problems. For instance, CHSI has developed a clinical decision support system that can detect diabetic retinopathy with a high degree of accuracy using lab and comorbidity data available through primary care visits. This algorithm addresses the very real challenge of low patient compliance, particularly among rural and underserved populations, with annual ophthalmic eye exams, which are the gold standard for retinopathy detection and preventing vision impairment or total vision loss. CHSI is extending this work to other common diabetes-related microvascular complications with the goal of developing a comprehensive suite of tools that can help increase prevention and management of these complications among the nation’s growing diabetic population.

How Does Implicit Bias Affect Health Care?

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First-Hand Look at Health Care Careers

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Nearly 150 Bay Area high school and community college students aspiring to careers in health got a glimpse of the wide array of jobs in health care during a day-long Kaiser Permanente-sponsored Youth Career Day at Kaiser Permanente’s Garfield Innovation Center. The students and teachers came from health career preparatory programs at 8 schools and organizations around the Bay Area and Sacramento, including Oakland’s Technical High School Health Academy, Sacramento’s Health Professions High School, Contra Costa Community College, and First Place for Youth. Kaiser Permanente created the hands-on program to introduce a diverse group of young people to health careers they may not know exist. The program also provided students and instructors with guidance on what education they would need for a given career, and how to find financial aid and support services to help get there.
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The Health Care Spending Dilemma

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This video describes health care spending in the state of Minnesota, how health care spending growth can create problems for individuals, businesses and governments, and why constraining health care spending is hard. It also provides an outline of how policymakers might approach limiting health care spending growth in the future. More information on health care spending in Minnesota is available at www.health.state.mn.us/healtheconomics

Seven Challenges Facing Today’s Health Care Leaders

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Seven Challenges Facing Today’s Health Care Leaders

It’s always been challenging to be a leader in health care—competing priorities, tight budgets, helping staff find meaning and joy in work. But this time, right now, may be the most trying we’ve ever seen. In this short video, IHI’s President and CEO shares seven specific challenges facing today’s health care leaders. Along with former IHI CEOs Don Berwick and Maureen Bisognano, Feeley will share proven strategies, potential solutions, and bold new ideas in IHI’s Fall 2017 Change Conference: Leading at the Edge. Learn more about the two-day event here: http://www.ihi.org/education/Conferences/fall-2017-ihi-change-conference
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Next Generation of Health Care Technology at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center

Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center is now using smartphone technology for all care team members to improve patient safety, help provide a quieter hospital environment and allow team members to spend more time with their patients.

Visit us: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/johns_hopkins_bayview/
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Boo! Don’t let these health facts scare you

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Have a good scream this Halloween. Then see if these frightening health facts – which don’t go away when the calendar turns to November – are enough to make you take charge of your health. Read the story at news.heart.org.
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Mayo Clinic Minute: Avocado gets an 'A' for health benefits

Avocados are getting their moment in the limelight because they taste good and have health benefits. Avocados contain mostly good fats — monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats plus a small amount of saturated fat.

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Mayo Clinic Minute: Can the MIND diet improve brain health?

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Eating certain foods can help preserve brain function. There’s mounting scientific evidence that shows sticking to a method called the MIND diet can make a difference in your risk of cognitive decline and dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.

Mayo Clinic Wellness Dietitian Angie Murad says the MIND diet is a combination of two other healthy diets and includes a variety of brain-friendly foods.

The benefits of the MIND method go beyond just the mind.

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