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Even Short Workouts Have Benefits
By Marilyn Shreve
Would you be able to find an extra ten minutes a day to scroll on your phone? Or binge the latest season of your favorite show? Odds are your answer is YES! But what about ...
Continue Reading Find Your Exercise Inspiration
By Marilyn Shreve
Having a workout routine you like isn’t just fun—it helps keep you coming back for more. If you are still trying to find your exercise groove, try one (or more) of these ideas: ENJOY THE ...
Continue Reading Predictive Analytics=Patient Empowerment
By Marilyn Shreve
For people with high cholesterol or diabetes, adhering to a medication treatment plan is more than a good idea, it can be essential to their health. Simply prescribing medication and lifestyle changes and expecting a ...
Continue Reading WAKE UP! Patients Want Better Access to Mobile Health and Telehealth Tools
By Marilyn Shreve
According to a recent Pew Internet report, roughly 77% of Americans now own a smartphone. Entrepreneurial strengths will be increasingly important in a rapidly changing healthcare environment of the 21st Century that focuses on the ...
Continue Reading Here’s to a Technology-assisted HealthCare system “JAILBREAK”
By Marilyn Shreve
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a clinical pharmacist who believes that at the heart of our United States healthcare system there must be a relentless effort to improve every American's health and to sustain their wellness. ...
Continue Reading A PUBLIC HEALTH EPIDEMIC
By Marilyn Shreve
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a pioneer in using digital, mobile and interactive technologies as powerful tools to engage patients to take a proactive role in managing their treatment regimens and medication therapies... resulting in lowering ...
Continue Reading PATIENT ENGAGEMENT–The New Call to Action for Clinicians
By Marilyn Shreve
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a clinical pharmacist who led California's efforts to become the first state to implement policies and regulations that authorize electronic transmission of prescriptions (e-prescribing). Over the last ten years, there has ...
Continue Reading Could a smart toothbrush replace your GP?
By Marilyn Standifer Shreve
Originally published on Friday Nov 25, 2016 on nzherald.co.nz by Liam Dann. We are fast approaching a future where your bathroom mirror and your toothbrush will give you a full health check first thing in ...
Continue Reading Medication Non-Adherence… A 290 Billion Dollar A Year Challenge
By Marilyn Standifer Shreve
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a pharmacist who is helping todays clinicians employ ADHERENCE TECHNOLOGY to expand their voice, reach and care beyond the walls of the medial office, pharmacy, hospital and other traditional practice settings. ...
Continue Reading Tech-Based Medication Adherence Program Improves Outcomes, Reduces Costs
By Marilyn Standifer Shreve
Published in Managed Health Care Connect on September 23, 2016 Thomas Morrow MD Having officially reached Medicare age, I am amazed that the focus of virtually every conversation with my older friends when we get ...
Continue Reading Everyday Inspiration_Think Health For A Change
By Marilyn Shreve
We believe in home and that our home should restore us from the stresses of the day and ready us for tomorrow. We believe in seeking the balance between hustle and rest and learning to find contentment in both. We believe in kindness, knowing we are made better when we all work together. We believe…
Continue Reading Make Yourself Stronger
By Marilyn Shreve
More than ever we need qualities like grit, resilience and drive as well as physical power and stamina for a healthy mind and body. Fortunately. having one can make building all the others easier, research has found. Studies indicate that increasing your physical strength ” allows you to see that you can do difficult things…
Continue Reading The Biggest Obstacles To Changing The Standard of Health Care Are The Excuses
By Marilyn Shreve
Michelangelo had his Pope Julius II, Mozart his Colloredo. But they did not make excuses about the restrictions placed upon them. They made masterworks that changed the standards of art and music. In the US healthcare system, the medicines are complex, and the regulations are stifling but using the complexity of our healthcare system as…
Continue Reading Three Cheers for America’s Birthday!
By Marilyn Shreve
The Pledge of Allegiance just thirty-one words… whether we are aware of it or not, these thirty-one words carved out a place in our hearts—in the shape of a true patriot: a love of liberty, a defender of faith, a promoter of unity, a champion of peace, a protector of democracy and a guardian on…
Continue Reading For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters
By Marilyn Shreve
A new study in the journal Global Epidemiology authored by Dr, Brendan Case (Associate Director for Research at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program gain and Dr. Ying Chen, research associate), it makes the case in its findings that married women were more optimistic and had a greater sense of purpose. Their findings’ were striking. The…
Continue Reading Another Medical Revolution Is Under Way
By Marilyn Shreve
We sometimes forget that, as recently as the 19th century, people suffered through gruesome surgeries without anesthesia. The first part of the 20th century saw only slow progress in clinical medicine. Even by the early 1970s, doctors, for the most part, could only observe the human devastation caused by serious diseases. Physicians had little in…
Continue Reading AWAKENINGS
By Marilyn Shreve
Spring, a time of awakening. Everything is clear and fragrant. “Live in each season as it passes: Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” Henry David Thoreau Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. By finding beauty in the ordinary , you can add…
Continue Reading Declutter Your Mind
By Marilyn Shreve
“If you don’t know what to do with it, or where to put it, or why you ever bought it in the first place, or if looking at it depresses you, throw it out,” say Leslie Raycraft my friend and CEO of Posh Organizing in Connecticut. According to Gail Blanke, a personal life coach, here…
Continue Reading It’s Time to BREATHE
By Marilyn Shreve
Studies have shown that increasing the flow of oxygen to the brain and lungs can help reduce stress and impose endurance. As we face change in our world, just a thought to help you remember to breathe.
Continue Reading Hope, Wish and Dream DAILY!
By Marilyn Shreve
Record your holy cow revelations. Answer the big “why not?” questions. Make your own life…in dreams there are no impossibilities. Capture new ideas that encourage you to press on regardless. Expand on those magical callings that give your heart wings. Celebrate the dreamer in you. Life is the grand adventure and only a life worth…
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