Every employees spend more hours at their workplace than anywhere else, not to mention the time spent commuting. The typical worker spends about 47 hours a week in these activities, many of them sitting in cars, trains, buses, or at their desks. New healthcare technologies can now monitor an individual’s personal health data continuously with services that provide health alerts when the data deviates from a healthy pattern. Such technologies can engage an employee in his/her own health care and encourage a healthy lifestyle. Health Relationship Management Services (HRMS) is such a system that is ideal for employee wellness as it makes it fun and engaging for individuals.
The initial wave of baby boomers turned 65 in 2010 making the elderly the fastest-growing segment of the Asian population. In the past decades, there have been many efforts to reduce health spending, yet the costs of health care continue to escalate...
Patient hospital discharge re-admissions has become a major problem for the healthcare industry. Patients are being discharged as soon as possible, where they often return home with little or no professional assistance...
Individuals are becoming more concerned of their own health and the need to be proactive. With digital services being readily available, individual are now demanding access to their personal health information and looking to instantly and securely share their health information with their care providers...
The Asian population is aging, and persistent chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension are ubiquitous. Thus, healthcare providers and patients are looking for new solutions to lower their healthcare costs...
Medical tourism has become an important alternative for patients to get timely treatment and to seek desired medical care in foreign countries. Telemedicine can play a vital role in medical tourism through an evaluation of the involved business processes.