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Connected health tools can play a vital role in the COVID-19 crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Even before the COVID-19 crisis, the healthcare industry faced a number of challenges: physician shortages, clinicians overwhelmed by changes and population health needs. The center of care has also shifted, noted Mike Braham, CEO of the connected health platform Trapollo, during a recent sponsored HIMSS20 Digital session.

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It’s Official! – No Large Health IT Conference Until 2021

Healthcare IT Today

I think we’d all been waiting for the shoe to fully drop, but it now seems official that there will be no large health IT conferences for the rest of 2020.

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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In the meantime, here are some of the most-read Healthcare IT News stories of 2020 so far. It also demonstrated the power and utility of increasingly powerful yet affordable connected health devices, which could be distributed to populations who need them most as important sentinel surveillance tools. Twitter: @MikeMiliardHITN.

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The 'internet of healthy things' poses unique privacy challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Even as these devices have widened access, however, the "internet of healthy things" has also meant more potential privacy issues, explained experts in a HIMSS21 Global Conference Digital session available on demand this week. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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HIMSS21 tech news: Secure telehealth connections, remote diabetes care with Fitbit

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Kajeet, a vendor of wireless connectivity and software and hardware solutions for controlled Internet access, has debuted Kajeet Connected Health, an Internet of Things (IoT) solution designed to enable the secure and reliable delivery of telemedicine services. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication.

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Telehealth: ATA president says 'we have a lot more work to do'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Joe Kvedar during his keynote address Monday, the first day of the virtual ATA2020 conference. Kvedar, who has run the Center for Connected Health at Boston's Partners HealthCare since 1995, has been a self-described "telehealth evangelist" over those decades. Twitter: @kjercich.

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Telehealth resource centers nationwide aid providers at no cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In addition to the regional TRCs, the National Telehealth Technology Assessment Resource Center and the Center for Connected Health Policy evaluate different types of telehealth technology and track telehealth-related policy, respectively. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. HIMSS20 Digital. Twitter: @kjercich.