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FCC awards Massachusetts FQHC Telehealth Consortium $3.1M

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

million grant stems from the FCC's Connect Care Pilot Program , which is designed to help eligible provider organizations defray the costs of offering virtual care and study how the FCC's Universal Service Fund can help support the trend toward connected-care services. WHY IT MATTERS. THE LARGER TREND.

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Healthcare Via the Cloud, Across the Enterprise and in the Patient’s Home – a Sustainable View from Philips at HIMSS 2021

Health Populi

That’s a big promise and vision, so to kick the tires on such a Holy Grail I had the opportunity to meet, virtually, with two key leaders of Philips’ health care business: Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader Connected Care, and Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Leader, Post Acute & Home.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Through symptom and temperature reporting, occupational health can quickly identify symptomatic and asymptomatic employees, and better allocate resources during a crisis. Equality Health. Patients can securely connect online, including in low-bandwidth environments, using their cell phone or computer.

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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. Last year, Abbott made a big splash with the company’s Board Chairman/CEO delivering a keynote addressing connected care.