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Digital Healthcare Intervention: Using Remote Monitoring to Lower Blood Pressure

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

In the year 2020, heart disease deaths increased by 4.8%, the largest increase in heart disease deaths since 2012. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) has been created to gather patients’ health data without being heavily burdened by hospitals and emergency rooms. . Telemedicine has been around since the rise of technology.

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Top Healthcare IT Today Resources, Articles, Videos, and Podcasts

Healthcare IT Today

Although, this article is from 2012. HIPAA vs HIPPA – Fun Friday – I’m glad some humor made the top list since I enjoy humor as much or more than the next person. Clean, Usable Health Data and the Impact of Sharing Data with Partners. Plus, Bad HIPPA Takes is a great Twitter account.

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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. Our data shows people don’t really want a place to store data, per se,” Bosworth continued.

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

But then there’s the formidable challenge of medical privacy and the regulation of Big Tech companies’ use of personal data, covered in general terms on page 167 shown here. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014 – Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.

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