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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

million veterans interacting with the site, including their personal health data, every month. "These digital tools are allowing veterans to more actively understand their health data, to better communicate with VA clinical teams and to engage more productively as they navigate their individual health journeys."

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Multiple formats of the same Document content

Healthcare Exchange Standards

A Patient Generated Health Data (PGHD) CDA document vs a CCDA CCD. They could all have been created at the same time, from the same underlying EHR data, simply for the purpose of satisfying the largest range of clients. text/x-hl7-text+xml urn:hl7-org:sdwg:ccda-structuredBody:1.1 are laying around.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

So let’s take inventory: software for medical research, new sensor technology that provides activity data and remote diagnostics, health records, medical clinics and a powerful soft asset – consumer trust. Google started a health-records initiative in 2008, but shut it down by 2011, citing poor adoption.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

However, distinguishing between the two forms of health IT tools can often be difficult, due to nebulous definitions and overlapping features. Patient portals give users an online view of their health data, as do PHRs. Both standalone and tethered PHRs present issues with patient-generated health data.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. Greater investment in the science of digital biomarkers is needed to evaluate the value of mobile health data for clinical use.