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Leveraging the power of digital transformation to enhance patient care and healthcare providers’ performance

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Clínica Alemana Osorno, located in southern Chile, has introduced digital communication workflows that leverage connected care. Digital workflows are helping the clinic create a better patient experience, enhance workforce efficiency and increase access to care across its 46 medical specialties and four facilities.

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Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures. "However, the rapid expansion of telehealth services creates new risks for patient safety and enterprise security. ON THE RECORD.

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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

Of these patients, 43% followed up with a medical professional – and 82% had their self-diagnosis confirmed. Maternal health data platform eLovu Health is integrating with Brightside Health and Ruth Health , providers of telemental health and virtual maternity care, respectively.

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Telehealth Visits Can Improve Revenue, But They’re No Cornucopia

Healthcare IT Today

But at least one type of value-based care is getting reimbursed: digital monitoring for behavioral care. Medicare created new codes to cover remote patient monitoring in January 2020, according to Anderson and Null. As Hartsfield says, “Patient engagement strategies have never been more critical.”

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

Health Populi

Remember the bulky Holter monitors worn at the waist to gather data about The AT-Patch from ATsens won an honoree award at CES 2021 , transforming the form factor and streamlining the patient experience of collecting electrocardiogram data over time. Hygiene and the clean home. Justice Department.

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

Health Populi

So we can think about the home’s “HealthQuarters” by “room,” such as the bedroom (for sleep and healthy sex-lives), the bathroom (for weight and mood observed in the mirror, or the toilet as a collector of health data), the kitchen (for healthy food and cooking), and the overall home environment itself for air and water quality.

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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.