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United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPM

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” The other challenge United Methodist faced was facilitating specialty and primary care physician visits for residents. The lockdown and quarantine restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic put a significant burden on residents who required routine specialty and primary care. ” MARKETPLACE.

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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

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Meanwhile, 58% have never considered where their PHI is shared when using those apps – in part because privacy is secondary to insurance coverage and convenience for most digital health users. Sales National wound care center Healogics implemented Net Health’s Tissue Analytics solution.

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The Ins and Outs of Remote Patient Monitoring

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For patients, it is best to have messages about remote patient monitoring programs delivered by someone they trust and have a relationship with: their primary care physician (PCP). Kimberly O’Loughlin, Chief Executive Officer at HRS The time has come for remote patient monitoring.

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How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Health Equity

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Whether it is integrating Apple Watch data, shortening emergency department wait times or providing better concierge care, these interventions can be helpful, or even great. (We And many of us can’t get into our primary care doctors, either). We do need to automate data collection, who wants to sit in an ER?