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Doctors and nurses raise the alarm on WhatsApp being used to transmit patient medical information

Lloyd Price

The website providing a guide to the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) asks the pertinent question: is using WhatsApp in a professional setting by healthcare workers compliant with the law? That, in the end, cost the NHS a lot of money and good faith in the 2017 WannaCry ransomware disaster.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. The evidence for telehealth’s tipping point is rooted in new research published today by Accenture on Patients + Doctors + Machines, Accentures’ 2018 Consumer Survey on Digital Health. Accenture surveyed 2,301 U.S.

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A Fresh Look at Telehealth Patient Demographics in 2019

Enzyme Health

Knowing more about who your patients are and what they’re looking for in their medical practitioners is important for any doctor or nurse to know, but it’s especially important in a field like telemedicine. The number of patients willing to switch PCPs because of video visits has grown from 17 million in 2015 to 50 million in 2017.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services. In fact, a 2017 survey found that two-thirds of healthcare consumers would prefer seeing a doctor via virtual visits. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO. Telehealth in 2019.

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Biofourmis Raises Additional Funding from Intel Capital in Series D Extension and Names Top Healthcare Leaders to its Board

Healthcare IT Today

Fetter also launched adjacent businesses—Conifer Health Solutions and United Surgical Partners International—which are now multi-billion-dollar enterprises and leaders in their respective fields. Fetter retired as chairman and CEO of Tenet in late 2017. Dr. Jain contributes healthcare delivery reform insight.

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How Millennials are Reshaping the Entire Healthcare Sector

Advanced Medical Reviews

These clinics are typically open on weekends, well-integrated with provider mobile/web apps for easy scheduling and staffed by nurse practitioners. As of August 2017, 21 states granted nurse practitioners full prescriptive authority to diagnose, treat and prescribe medicines for patients, free of physician oversight.

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Fit-tech: Bridging the Gap between Fitness and Healthcare

Digital Health Today

An undeniable consequence of the IoT revolution is that consumers have no shortage of resources or access to medical and health-driven information. For example, Fitbit recently partnered with Solera Health in the fight against Type 2 Diabetes.