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Health informatics and why participatory healthcare is key to its future

Society for Participatory Medicine

Health informatics deals with the resources, devices, and methods to utilize acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of information in health and medicine. Healthcare informatics provides electronic access to medical records for patients, doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, insurance companies and health information technicians.

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Telemedicine Today (#tday): June 2015

American Well

For its part, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) is taking a step forward in supporting the wider use of telemedicine. “This allows providers to use telemedicine technology to improve the cost and quality of healthcare delivery.” Healthcare Informatics. ” Read More.