Category Archives: Health News

How Covid-19 Can Inspire Tech-Enabled Value-Based Health Care in a Cash-Constrained America

“The COVID-19 pandemic…has highlighted like never before the pitfalls of paying for healthcare based on the number of patients seen and services rendered,” a Modern Healthcare article asserted in mid-June 2020. In other words, the U.S. health care financing regime of volume-based payment didn’t fare well as millions of patients postponed or cancelled procedures and… Read More »

How to improve your mood through diet

Important B vitamins to look out for include folate, vitamins B3, B6 and B12, and eating leafy green vegetables — such as spinach or broccoli — will help keep your levels up. Beans and Peas. Certain nuts and seeds are high in tryptophan, zinc, and selenium, which may support brain function and lower your risk… Read More »

These doctors and nurses volunteered to battle Covid-19 in the Navajo Nation, and came back with a warning

A group of medical providers gathering at the Gallup Indian Medical Center Source: Nate Teismann Dr. Jeanne Noble has worked all over the world as an emergency medicine physician. So when the hospital where she works, UC San Francisco, asked if anyone was willing to fly out to the Navajo Nation and help with an… Read More »