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Virtua Navigates Orthopedic Patients Pre- & Post-Surgery with Improved Patient Engagement and Care Coordination

Consumer eHealth Engagement

Through focus group research (Spring 2015), Virtua learned: • Orthopedic patients need a lot of information to get ready for their surgery but are overwhelmed when inundated with too much at one time. Since launching the Wellbe platform in December 2015, Virtua JRI has enrolled 700 patients. Patient Journey.

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#WWBR Week of September 22, 2014

Chilmark Research

Healthline’s new technology will go to market in 2015, and uses a combination of NLP, keyword identification, and a proprietary risk scoring framework to digest doctor’s notes and other free text fields about patients into insight. eHealth Initiative Survey Suggests Many ACOs Lack Mobile Applications and Face High Costs.

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Telemedicine Today (#tday): December 2015

American Well

Welcome to the the final edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today for 2015! As another year approaches its end, we take a look back at 2015 as a year of great progress in the evolving Telemedicine industry. A few of Avizia’s proudest moments from 2015: Forbes – Avizia Is Transforming Healthcare Through Telemedicine. MedCity News.

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With Apple Watch, researchers explore new frontiers in heart health

Digital Health Global

Since Apple launched ResearchKit and CareKit in 2015, researchers, clinicians, and developers have found innovative new ways to study, track, and treat a broad range of conditions. Firefighters will also wear an air quality monitor and complete surveys related to sleep, activity, and wildfire smoke-related symptoms.

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a survey based in the US, patients that experienced telehealth visits highly rated this type of healthcare (recommendations: > 80%) 5,6 , stating it was beneficial for their mental health as well. In a cross-sectional survey, 52.5% In a survey among telehealth patients in the UK conducted by Dhahri et al., ” 27.

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Ochsner Leverages Retail, Connected Health Tools & Apple Watch to Engage Consumers

Consumer eHealth Engagement

In February 2015, we launched our Hypertension Digital Medicine Program, monitoring blood pressure and heart rate. “With the HealthKit/Epic integration, we are able to use the patient’s unique responses to the survey combined with the monitoring data to tailor the intervention to the individual”, adds Dr.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) and 2-1-1 New York have received funding from the HHS Administration for Community Living to establish a trust framework and statewide governance structure to support collaboration and exchange of community information across existing networks and users. Too many. . Too many organizations.