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How Digital Health Can Transform Cardiology

Xealth

Neither are remote teleICUs. The multidisciplinary heart team approach (cardiologists, radiologists, imagers, echocardiographers, nurses, and research coordinators) has serious legs for value-based care, and digital health has the potential to keep the team connected. This is not new technology.

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Six Aging and Health Blog Posts from the Prolific Month of June 2022

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Homecare: Consider a vision for 'connected care.' This was conceived by Andrea Cohen, Founder and Vice-Chair of HouseWorks , a large home care company started in Boston. Andrea noted, "When employed to its fullest, remote care technology improves every aspect of how care is delivered in the home.

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Bonus Features – July 16, 2023 – 95% of patients are concerned about data breaches affecting their medical records, 81% incorrectly assume PHI collected by digital health apps is protected under HIPAA

Healthcare IT Today

The most notable approval is USCDI v3, and others include two implementation guides from CMS for Quality Reporting Document Architecture and three HL7 standards (for C-CDA, FHIR, and QRDA). ONC has approved six standards as part of its annual annual Standards Version Advancement Process.

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Leveraging Technology to Improve Referral Management in Home Health Care

Healthcare IT Today

While these are two large factors behind the increased demand, other factors are driving the increase, including the technological advances that enable better remote care. The process begins when a patient is referred to a specialist home health provider by his or her primary care physician.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

Healthcare IT Today

Gary Hamilton, CEO at InteliChart To make meaningful progress on health equity, hospitals and health systems will first need to identify existing barriers to care that impact their own patient populations. When selecting patient-facing digital tools, health systems should evaluate platforms on their ability to engage all patient populations.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Patient education material in the form of images, documents and videos is pushed to patients through the app, as well. It uses artificial intelligence to interpret and display remote monitoring data, striking a balance between alerting of concerning trends and avoiding alarm fatigue, the company said. Spry Health.