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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Turbocharging, really inspiring that bold statement is the love of a son for his parents coupled with tech-innovation chops that could, indeed, eventually bring that audacious claim of being health care’s OS to fruition.

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How Can Health IT Help Reform the CDC?

Healthcare IT Today

COVID-19 forced a spike in policy-makers’ interest and willingness to invest in public health; a spike that is unfortunately retreating to the old business as usual. I consulted several experts in health IT to ask how such IT could improve data collection and sharing in public health.

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How Digital Health Can Stimulate Economic Development

Health Populi

It’s National Health IT Week in the US, so I’m kicking off the week with this post focused on how digital health can bolster economic development. As the only health economist in the family of the 2018 HIMSS Social Media Ambassadors, this is a voice through which I can uniquely speak. Improve health care for all New Yorkers, 2.

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Latinos and Diabetes: The Need for Outreach

Insulin Nation

They also are experiencing the fastest increase in the rates of both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and that alarms many public health officials. According to a recent American Diabetes Association analysis of diabetes health data, 52.5% health care system. population. of Hispanic women and 45.4%

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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 Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Here are some of the evidence: In a 2009 study on the evidence of the Chronic Care Model in the new millennium , it was found that the Chronic Care Model can improve patient care and create better health outcomes. However, the Chronic Care Model offers approaches that could help us address this critical public health crisis.

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How mHealth Apps are redefining the medical sector

Waracle

Mobile health – or mHealth – encompasses the provision of medicine and public health services through mobile devices, or as the WHO says more succinctly, “medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and other wireless devices.”

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