article thumbnail

How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. We had to reinvent how to engage, monitor, and treat” patients with new approaches both in and outside the acute care setting. What a difference 90 days makes.

article thumbnail

Telemedicine found to be effective for diabetes management in KSA and UAE

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During lockdown, not only did telemedicine play an important role in continued, connected care, it also proved to be a cost-effective and time-efficient alternative, the paper stated.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

"The sustainable advancement of telehealth is one that removes inequalities in healthcare"

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Pushing the boundaries in digital health should be done very cautiously until data security and the right skills are ensured," said John Rayner (UK), Regional Director, EMEA, Analytics, HIMSS, who moderated the event ' Telehealth adoption in Europe: The findings of the HIMSS e-Health Trendbarometer. '

Telecare 114
article thumbnail

2020 Roadmap: Overcoming Telemedicine Barriers

GlobalMed

Tribal lands sometimes have the lowest rates of broadband adoption; many Indian Health Services facilities lack the bandwidth to offer virtual care. FCC initiatives such as Connected Care NPRM and the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund strive to bring telehealth services to patients in underserved, rural and tribal areas.

article thumbnail

What will it take for HCPs to embrace the Digital Health Journey?

Digital Health Today

But the average clinician doesn’t know the difference between DTx and other digital tools, and that’s a problem according to Senior Executives who attended the DTx Event. One thing we do know is that 68% of doctors said in a recent survey that have discussed digital tools with at least one patient in the past year. Only time will tell.

article thumbnail

8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a survey based in the US, patients that experienced telehealth visits highly rated this type of healthcare (recommendations: > 80%) 5,6 , stating it was beneficial for their mental health as well. In a cross-sectional survey, 52.5% In a survey among telehealth patients in the UK conducted by Dhahri et al., ” 27.

article thumbnail

A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Biovitals’ AI-based treatment algorithms then enable software-based therapeutic interventions that signal to clinicians what they should do next to intervene, in order to prevent critical events that would otherwise lead to hospitalizations or visits to the emergency department.