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Using Fitbit data to track influenza-like illness in real time

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Primary topic: Population Health Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: Using Fitbit data to track influenza-like illness in real time Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. It has various applications in healthcare, including tracking medical equipment and medicines, monitoring patient movements, and managing medication inventory. FDA’s Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

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RTLS & AI: Solving the Riddle of Healthcare Inefficiency

Healthcare IT Today

How RTLS Works Most RTLS systems depend on a combination of tags, sensors, and software. Tags are attached to any vital assets that need to be tracked including equipment, supplies, devices, and even people. These tags come in a variety of sizes and will vary in range and data quality.

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Care coordination for older adults – still elusive, does tech help?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Handoffs across disparate providers is described as a software capability by one player, WellSky, that can reduce readmissions – and they tout the integration they already have tracking 30% of annual discharges to 130,000 post-acute facilities. category tags: healthcare , home health care , Home Care , tech-enabled home care

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

The Washington State legislature passed House Bill 1155, aka the My Health, My Data Act , last week. The My Health, My Data Act defines “consumer health data” as “personal information that is linked or reasonably linkable to a consumer and that identifies a consumer’s past, present, or future physical or mental health.” First, the law.

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US Census: some older adults still lack computers and Internet access

Aging in Place Technology Watch

The growth has been tracked most recently in survey samples that compared the most recent with prior time periods: AARP surveyed 2063 and Pew Research surveyed 1502 adults. million households pulled from the 5-year census ( American Community Survey/ACS ) data? category tags: computers, broadband, and social networking.

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

One-third of physicians have concerns about using virtual care services, such as medical errors that may result, access to technology, and data security. consumers are now tracking health via digital tools, and one-half of these share the data generated by their apps. One in two U.S.