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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Even if the home can't be the hospital, community spaces and retail locations can fill in as connected care stations for underserved communities or patients [who] don't have an ideal setup at home.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

As the OMRON VitalSight, described above, demonstrates, more consumer-facing digital health technologies are bridging patients and doctors, and patients and hospitals. The good news about hospital care being able to move to home is exactly what’s concerning in terms of privacy and cybersecurity. Home as hospital.

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Our Homes as HealthQuarters – Finding Health and Well-Being at CES 2023

Health Populi

For over ten years, digital health technology has been a fast-growing area at the annual CES , the largest convention covering consumer electronics in the world. For wonkier health care folks, you can consider these the “home determinants of health,” a subset of the big umbrella of social determinants or drivers of health.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the consultation, the provider can use integrated digital medical devices to capture vitals, images and other health data that is then stored as part of the patient’s health record. This ensures valuable health data is not lost, as could happen with a video-only telemedicine service.