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April 2019 Telemedicine News

Enzyme Health

mHealth App for Juvenile Arthritis Patients Shows Promise for Youth Patient-Doctor Relationships. A new Swedish-developed mHealth app called Genia is showing promise at the University of Minnesota for fostering communication between juvenile arthritis patients and their care providers.

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How Telehealth Is Improving Healthcare for Veterans

InTouch Health

The 2016-17 program gave mHealth-enabled tablets to some 6,750 veterans in rural areas across the country. Each tablet came with remote patient monitoring and virtual visit capabilities, and some veterans received additional mHealth devices such as a blood pressure monitor or weight scale. The VA’s Telehealth Tablet Program.

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Reuters Health: Telemedicine surging in US but still uncommon

mHealth Insight

in recent years, the vast majority of American adults still receive care from doctors in person rather than via remote technology, a new study suggests. The goal of telemedicine is to help improve access to specialty care, particularly in rural, underserved areas of the country, researchers note in JAMA.

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Telemedicine Today: November 2016

American Well

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! million Americans under the age of 18 lack “access to care that meets modern pediatric standards.”. Many children with insurance cannot access primary care, and those who can often have challenges getting specialty care. mHealth Intelligence.

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The Importance of Broadband and Net Neutrality for Health, to the Last Person and the Last Mile

Health Populi

I’ve talked about the importance of connectivity as a social determinant of health here on this site in December 2017, as well as in July 2016 in the Huffington P ost (appropriately published in the “Life/Wellness” section).