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The 5 minute download on the NYeC Conference 2013

American Well

Last week I was fortunate enough to attend New York eHealth Collaborative’s Digital Health Conference 2013 in New York City. This wild and beautiful city is a magnet for all types of industry, so it’s no surprise that it’s a hotbed of digital health technology innovation. What does this mean to you? Neither will her physician.

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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. In 2001, a prisoner taken to University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas took two nurses hostage and assaulted them.

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The Chronic Care Model and its Key Elements

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

The Chronic Care Model is based upon the idea that people with chronic illnesses should have access to continuous care and support. It shifts the focus from acute and reactive care to proactive, population-based care. Under this program, care teams can bill for time spent managing patients’ health conditions.

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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.