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Let’s Save the Date and Make Patient Engagement Official in 2022

Society for Participatory Medicine

Let’s look back even further to 2013 to examine one definition of patient engagement: Health Affairs defines patient engagement as combining patient activation with interventions designed to increase and promote positive patient behavior, such as obtaining preventive care or exercising regularly, hopefully to lower costs.

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Bonus Features – August 7, 2022 – Patients like digital health but have security concerns, healthcare leaders optimistic “seamless” care is coming, and more

Healthcare IT Today

Cybersecurity company Surfshark found the number of government requests for user data increased 4x from 2013 to 2020 among Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. While 7 out of 10,000 may not seem like a lot, a large hospital with up to 20 connected devices per patient room could have several devices at risk.

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Teladoc Livongo merger: what went wrong with the 'one-stop shop for virtual care' strategy?

Lloyd Price

History of Teladoc Teladoc Health is a multinational telemedicine and virtual healthcare company headquartered in the United States. In 2013, Teladoc went public on the NYSE. Current status Teladoc is the leading provider of telemedicine in the United States. Teladoc's future looks bright.