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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

Remote patient monitoring: Remote patient monitoring refers to technology and programs that help track patient health data at a distant site outside of the hospital or clinic and send that data to care providers in real time.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness. The idea makes sense; it can reduce running costs while leveraging the offer for future health insights. This year there was job posting for a HIPAA compliance lead for the Alexa team.

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When Household Economics Blur with Health, Technology and Trust – Health Populi’s 2023 TrendCast

Health Populi

COVID-19 and working from/learning from/exercising from/praying from/cooking from home accelerated, our homes have been morphing into our personal “HealthQuarters,” I recently discussed here in Health Populi. As we observed in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008, more DIY care came to people’s self-care at home.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others. PLM built custom software, stored a staggering amount of data, and secured access to it, all while making constant improvements to the user experience.

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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

Mobile Devices and Health was published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine. who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians.