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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Improving health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health What does health literacy have to do with patient safety? I would like to highlight a few.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. s National Health Service.

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How Bluetooth Medical Device at Home Can Help Military Veterans with Chronic Diseases

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Real-time physiological measurement capabilities and data processing provide patients with relevant information. Bluetooth medical devices monitored remotely could replace expensive home visits from community nursing staff for routine checking and evaluation because medical data could be sent via cellular network or through the internet.

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Trust Is the Currency for Consumer Health Engagement – A Bottom-Line at CES 2020

Health Populi

The Digital Health Summit at CES collaborated with Kantar on a poll gauging peoples’ perspectives on trust , technology and health. While most consumers say technology enables us to be connected with our health care, trust is a barrier to digital engagement. adults conducted in November 2019.

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The Consumer and the Payor, Bingo and Trust: My Day At Medecision Liberator Bootcamp

Health Populi

To succeed in the business of health information technology (HIT), a company has to be very clear on the problems it’s trying to address. Eleven years later, trust as a health engagement requirement is even more important in light of our AI-enabled health care world. There’s surely lots of data to mine.