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2011's AARP prediction for older adults: technology to live your best life

Aging in Place Technology Watch

According to a 2010 Forrester report (gone now, only the chart remains), only 4% of seniors aged 66+ owned a smartphone and only half had a desktop PC. Universal broadband, a prediction in 2010, mostly came to pass -- the 4 megabit definition of broadband seems quaint compared 2024’s 100 megabit definition.

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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Timely availability of clinical information during health care transitions, in a setting with robust telemedicine access, can shift the method of care delivery without adversely affecting patient health outcomes," wrote the researchers. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Elation Health and Surescripts® Partnership Supports Patient-Specific Prescription Cost Transparency for Primary Care Clinicians at Point of Care

Digital Health Global

Surescripts , the Arlington, Virginia–based information technology company, is the nation’s leading health information network. About Elation Health Elation Health is the most trusted technology platform for high-value primary care.

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Telehealth's uncertain future raises alarm bells for cancer patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Jenny Ahlstrom, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2010, says the recent changes have made it clear just how big a role virtual care can play for people with cancer and other chronic diseases. About 32,000 people will be diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of plasma cells, every year.

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AHRQ program seeks provider organizations to help improve hybrid telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

DeBakey Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and chief of health policy, quality and informatics program at the Houston VA Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety. " Singh: We currently are recruiting primary care, OB/GYN, community-based health and urgent care clinics for the program.

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Smart Phone Sign – A Measure of Well-Being and Suitability for Discharge

33 Charts - Digital Health

So long as we don’t see our smart phones as extensions of ourselves, we’re unlikely to see them as key sources of health information. My biggest challenge with my smart phone in the clinic is iPhone attribution error , first described in 2010. H/T to Dr. Allison Bond for bringing this link into my information stream.

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Shaping the future of health technologies

Digital Leaders HealthTech

The best health tech powering our healthcare systems: 2010-2020. Digital health records. Patient information is the currency through which health systems process, exchange, and interpret information. You can now search for health information online, simply by typing in your symptoms.