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First connected health service in Malaysia launched

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The 400-bed hospital joint venture by Ramsay Health Care Australia and Sime Darby Malaysia seeks to "revolutionise" healthcare delivery through its latest service called Connected Care. ON THE RECORD "We want to shift from patients to people, from healthcare to health, from hospital to home.

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Telehealth set for big boost with $100M in new funding from FCC

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has announced the agency will vote to advance a $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program, enabling telehealth expansion for low-income Americans nationwide. "I think the FCC should support this new trend towards connected care, which is the healthcare equivalent of moving from Blockbuster to Netflix.

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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For these patient populations in particular, COVID-19 spurred an interest in becoming a more active participant in care plans, bringing them new levels of convenience and personalization. Providers need to rely on a longitudinal health record to activate the right care anytime and anywhere.

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United Methodist Communities has early successes with telehealth and RPM

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

MEETING THE CHALLENGE. “This technology is not simply a video chat, but a telehealth station that includes specialty cameras, remote stethoscopes and other diagnostic tools that can be used by the clinician facilitating the telehealth visit.” To read this special report, click here.

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Personalized Care Company Validic Acquires Trapollo

Healthcare IT Today

Validic’s EHR-integrated healthcare application ingests remotely collected health data from the world’s largest health IoT platform to help healthcare organizations personalize chronic condition management, remote care, and support for healthy living. ” Validic is headquartered in Durham, NC.

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The Digital Transformation of Home for Health – Brainstorming with Karsten Russell-Wood of Philips

Health Populi

At the start of CES 2021, I had the opportunity to catch up with Karsten Russell-Wood, Portfolio Marketing Leader, Post Acute & Home, Connected Care at Philips. We brainstormed just as CES 2021 was going to “open,” virtually, for the consumer electronics conference’s first all-virtual meeting.

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HIMSS21 tech news: Salesforce Health Cloud innovations; Vivify telehealth scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

IT vendor Salesforce is rolling out new healthcare tools designed to help healthcare and life sciences organizations meet their patients, members and customers where they are to deliver the right care, at the right time, from anywhere. Vivify Health's remote care enhancements. Salesforce is in HIMSS21 booth 2216.