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Revolutionizing Healthcare: The power of Digital Health in dietary education for chronic conditions

Digital Health Global

Digital health encompasses electronic health (eHealth) and mobile health (mHealth), which leverage electronic platforms and mobile technologies, including wearable devices and apps, to provide health information and services. billion in 2016 to a staggering 6.3 billion in 2021.

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Why Elevance Health is “Prescribing” Phones for Members

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: In an essay I wrote for The Huffington Post back in July 2016, I asserted that broadband connectivity was a social determinant of health.

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What are the implications of Babyl Rwanda's closure for the future of Digital Health in Rwanda?

Lloyd Price

Intro to Babyl Rwanda Babyl Rwanda is the country's largest digital health provider. It was launched in 2016 in partnership with the Rwandan government and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This has improved the coordination of care and made it easier for patients to track their own health information.

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The Different Types of Telehealth

iSALUS Healthcare

In 2016 the global telehealth market was valued at $2.78 Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) Often used for seniors or in senior living areas, remote patient monitoring is the collection of a patient’s health data from a patient or resident in one location that is then electronically sent to a healthcare professional (provider, nurse, etc.)

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5 Digital Health Predictions for 2018 by Lloyd Price

Lloyd Price

Source : Bots in healthcare: interview with Thomas Schulz, Organiser of Botscamp [link] ) 2018 Digital Health Prediction 4 : Mobile phone manufacturers will follow Apple's lead on connecting to hospital EHRs using FHIR. He launched and scaled Healthcare.Digital from an idea in 2016 into one of the UK's leading Digital Health blogs.

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How mHealth Apps are redefining the medical sector

Waracle

Today we’re exploring how mHealth apps are redefining the medical sector. That’s right, the health and medical sector has been touted as one of the top three industries being transformed by the humble mobile device, and will likely retain its spot on the podium for some time if the figures are anything to go by.

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

Health Populi

This chart, on page 262, is important for healthcare delivery because a large proportion of the healthcare labor force is indeed foreign-born — at all levels of the system, from hyper-specialists in the operating room and research labs to home health aides helping elders with activities of daily living.

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