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Courage

Everyday Inspiration_Think Health For A Change

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 ...
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Brain Health

Make Yourself Stronger

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 ...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Biggest Obstacles To Changing The Standard of Health Care Are The Excuses

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 ...
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Inspire

Three Cheers for America’s Birthday!

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, ...
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Health lifestyles

For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters

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 ...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Another Medical Revolution Is Under Way

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 ...
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Health lifestyles

AWAKENINGS

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 ...
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Declutter Your Mind

“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 ...
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Brain Health

It’s Time to BREATHE

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 ...
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Brain Health

Hope, Wish and Dream DAILY!

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 ...
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Brain Health

Even Short Workouts Have Benefits

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 an extra TEN MINUTES a day that is dedicated to exercise?  If your answer changed to a hesitant maybe, you…
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Brain Health

Find Your Exercise Inspiration

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 CLASSICS: walking, running, biking TACKLE SOME CHORES: mowing the lawn, bagging leaves, planting flowers TAP INTO YOUR INNER CHILD: hopscotch,…
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Chronic Diseases

Predictive Analytics=Patient Empowerment

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 person to comply does not assure health improvement. Achieving improved patient health outcomes can require much more than gentle reminders…
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

WAKE UP! Patients Want Better Access to Mobile Health and Telehealth Tools

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 use of “Health IT” to employ tailored communication that effectively engages patients to take an active role in managing their…
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Marilyn Shreve, TIP Health,
Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Here’s to a Technology-assisted HealthCare system “JAILBREAK”

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. When it comes to patient-centered care, we have done little in the U.S. to harness or leverage the astounding progress…
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Marilyn Shreve, TIP Health
Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

A PUBLIC HEALTH EPIDEMIC

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 the growth of health care costs and improving patient health outcomes. Americans are dying in record numbers from heart disease,…
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patient-centered care

PATIENT ENGAGEMENT–The New Call to Action for Clinicians

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 been much discussion within the healthcare industry about patient-centered care or improving the experience of patients. However, in a 21st…
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Healthcare innovative technology

Could a smart toothbrush replace your GP?

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 the morning, says Michael Gillam, a Silicon Valley based health IT strategist who was in New Zealand last week for…
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Medication Non-Adherence… A 290 Billion Dollar A Year Challenge

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. The Problem—the What’s: The health care system in the United States is in crisis.   One of the of greatest health…
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Healthcare innovative technology

Tech-Based Medication Adherence Program Improves Outcomes, Reduces Costs

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 together is about health, doctor visits, surgical procedures, and medications. It is also interesting how many people talk about their…
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