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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

At the same time, digital health companies should collaborate with the insurance industry to build a knowledge base about risks and safety to bring some standardization and accountability to the market. Those risks do not naturally fit, Beazley says, into traditional insurance silos.

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Technology can help diagnose, contain COVID-19 – within limits

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

He noted that during a public health crisis, the more high-quality data that is available, the better organizations will be at forecasting and planning for multiple scenarios based on their likelihood. " Rajput agreed chatbots can have some advantages.

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Healthcare Reimagined: Creating a Better Remote Care Experience

CiscoHealth

Reducing the need for physical waiting rooms will ultimately reduce the risk of disease transmission to both frontline workers and patients, which can have great implications on public health. In this way, smaller facilities can access a broader knowledge base, which will help improve patient outcomes.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Public health in particular can leverage telehealth to great advantage. "Passive" telehealth refers to storing and accessing digital knowledge bases, health and wellness Web content, and interactive software applications that help us understand, prevent, treat, or recover from threats to our physical and mental health.

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How generative AI will change the doctor-patient relationship

Henry Kotula

Although public health experts have long touted the concept of clinicians and patients working together through shared decision-making , this rarely happens in practice. In time, people will be able to self-diagnose and manage their own diseases as accurately and competently as today’s clinicians. Generative AI will alter that reality.

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A Nutrition Label for Health IT

Health Populi

Even though the label appears to be a strict template, it was designed to be flexible to allow regulators to adapt to evolving nutrition knowledge based on a growing scientific evidence base. Here’s another facet of this history that resonates with health data rights and equity.

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Uses of AI in Healthcare – 2024 Health IT Predictions

Healthcare IT Today

Meghan Schaeffer, National Public Health Advisor & Epidemiologist at SAS Forecasting and modeling are rapidly becoming the cornerstone of public health work, but government needs help. Enter academia.

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