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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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It's time for solutions -- not products -- for aging in place

Aging in Place Technology Watch

And they are willing to spend on services to enable them to remain there – home security, food and supplies delivery, and transportation services if they choose to or must go places without driving. They don’t see themselves as focused on averting disaster (as with the advertising for some medical alerts), but just living.

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The Evolution of a Patient Ambassador – Learning from Stacy Hurt

Health Populi

Consider: fighting health insurance appeals, crafting countless medical necessity letters, justifying being discharged against medical orders, and other battles fought hand-in-hand with her husband on behalf of Emmett and his well-being. Why should this be an imperative?

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9amHealth Raises $9.5M Series A Extension Led by The Cigna Group Ventures to Expand to Employers Nationwide

Healthcare IT Today

A recent survey conducted by 9amHealth found that 48% of Americans are on or want to be on a GLP-1 medication, and a staggering 20% would even change their jobs to get access to coverage for the drugs. Their members receive personalized care plans, prescription delivery, at-home lab tests, and unlimited specialist access.

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A new COVID-19 wave is coming – how can health systems prepare?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Now, Krass said, many hospital executives are looking toward medication supply chains as other potential weak points. "The medication supply chain is fragile," said Krass. " One problem, he said, is the technology hospitals use to record medication use around health systems. Keep telemedicine tools easy to use.

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Four factors underpin AI potential in health and home care

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from hospitals. As care delivery and consumer expectations change, the traditional fee-for-service model has already morphed into the new era of health-care consumerism – a patient-organized mix of self-care, urgent care, and in-home care.

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For care delivery and older adults, is the time now for AI in Healthcare?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

For example, consider medical scribes -- did we know there was a ten-best AI medical scribe list? Yet it is critical to update the interaction notes in the medical record. category tags: Conversational and generative AI , healthcare , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health