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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

Chapter 5 of my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen , details the promise of digital health: wearable, shareable and virtual. Today, we can also call on Alexa to remind us to take medications, play nostalgic music when we are lonely, check our physical activity status with Fitbit, and query WebMD about a symptom.

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CIOs at children's hospitals share lessons from a year of turmoil

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hospitals across the country have been slammed with challenges over the course of the past 12 months as the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the U.S., While juggling all of these challenges during this most unusual period, executives have learned many valuable lessons. You can read past installments at this special theme portal.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.