Chronic health issues can be exhausting for patients. Whether they’re lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and hypertension or diseases that require lifelong management such as fibromyalgia, arthritis, or Crohn’s disease, the patient who is suffering has to plan their life around the management of their illness.Certainly, for these patients, their
Another year, another trend watch. We know, these conversations are everywhere. But we’re a tech company. And we’re quite geeky about the tech toys and tech innovations of the world (mostly because we get to work with so many of them every day).So, more than a trend watch, this list
Image Credits: WikimediaAlong with all the technological advancements taking place in the healthcare industry, chatbots on websites have also come a long way. From the staid and stoic automated responses, healthcare chatbots have now evolved – with the help of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) – to have
Image Source: eHealth magazine The healthcare system in India is facing many challenges, especially in rural and remote areas. The disparity between the care needs of rural areas and care providers is fairly immense. Although 75% of Indians live in rural communities, approximately 75% of the doctors and medical staff
What is burnout? How does it show up in people? Although burnout has always been present in people’s lives, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought it to the forefront of work-related conversations. There was a time when people were extremely hesitant to talk about burnout because of the stigma attached to
Burnout in healthcare workers has been prevalent for many years, but the Covid-19 pandemic has brought the seriousness of this issue to the forefront and in the public eye. Burnout within healthcare workers is now so pronounced that it prompted the U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy to write a
While burnout amongst healthcare workers has always existed due to a wide variety of factors, the Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted exactly how much healthcare workers bring to the table, and sometimes at great personal risk to their physical and mental health and even that of their families. While burnout amongst
Picture a normal work day for yourself. You head in and have most of your home healthcare therapy sessions and tasks for the day planned out for you. And then, upper management calls for an unplanned town hall. The subject of the day is that the entire organisation is moving
The HealthScore team spends a lot of time immersed in healthcare and technology – which works really, considering it’s what we do. And what we do is really exciting. As a health-tech company, we get to work at the cutting edge of an emerging industry, bring creativity and innovation that
A changing landscape comes with its own set of unique problems, many of which we’re usually not prepared for, which is what we’re seeing happen with the home care industry. With the demand for home care services rising, we’re starting to see quite clearly that the need for home care
