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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an age when nearly everyone is digitally connected in some way – even many senior citizens, who are often characterized as technophobic – it only makes sense that the healthcare industry is seeing a lot of connected health devices and remote patient monitoring (RPM) technologies.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

Susannah Fox has collected over twenty years of notes recording patients’ and caregivers’ experiences which, collectively, document the growing phenomenon of peer-to-peer healthcare she observed early in her career working on the Internet and health. I often eat dessert first, and in this book the 2.5

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

Health Populi

The coronavirus pandemic accelerated digital transformation of organizations, including health care providers. Consumers’ trust in all sources of health information increased between 2018 and 2020 except for peoples’ trust in online health websites/apps and social media, both of which lost a number of consumers trusting them.

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Consumers’ Embrace of Digital Health Tech Stalls, and Privacy Concerns Prevail – Accenture’s 2020 Research

Health Populi

Department of Health and Human Services unveiled the long-anticipated ONC Cures Act Final Rule for health data interoperability. That’s a wonky phrase that translates, simply put, into how our health data will be made available to us patients, consumers, health plan members, caregivers all.

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Will Technology Cure Americans’ Health Care System Ills? Considering Google and Ascension Health’s Data Deal

Health Populi

“Google’s ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans,” the Wall Street Journal reported in today’s paper and on the WSJ.com website. And, according to the WSJ reporting, “Neither patients nor doctors have been notified.

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

Healthcare IT Today

Reeya Patel, Vice President of Healthcare Insights at Azalea Health, points out that a televisit can document that a follow-up appointment has been scheduled, a request for a medication took place, or a referral to a specialist has occurred, all for billing purposes. Another company says that allows patients to schedule visits faster.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

Not only that, they directed the streams of data to researchers who were standing by, catching every drop, like phlebotomists filling vial after vial. This data would not go to waste and patients had a forum to act on their own desires to carefully document and share their experiences for the benefit of themselves and others.