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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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Health Consumers Keen to Share and Download Data, But Privacy Remains a Concern

Health Populi

More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA.

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

More younger people would be interested in downloading personal health records compared with older people. Still, over 50% of consumers ages 56 to 74 would like to download their EHR data. This is particularly concerning when personal health data is downloaded to an app that may fall out of the protection of HIPAA.

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The Promise of Digital Health and the Privacy Perils – HealthConsuming Explains, Part 4

Health Populi

The supply side of digital health tools and tech is growing at a hockey-stick pace. There are mobile apps and remote health monitors, digital therapeutics and wearable tech from head-to-toe. Today in America, electronic health records (EHRs) are implemented in most physician offices and virtually all hospitals.

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How One Hospital System Baked Love Into Their Health App

Health Populi

With the alarming growth of cyber-threats in healthcare, it’s key for an enterprise health cloud to address security rules, safeguards and specs required by HIPAA. That’s really a core value bridging health care providers and patients to boost the most effective engagement, shared decision-making, and trust.

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#Engage4Health: How Patients Are Morphing Into Healthcare Consumers, for #HIMSS18

Health Populi

However, adopting and implementing poorly designed electronic health records (EHRs) has diminished the time available to clinicians to lay hands and eyes on patients – essentially, limiting their ability to do the jobs they were trained, hired and personally driven to do.

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Hypertension Management: A Guide to Remote Patient Monitoring in 2024

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Mobile Health Applications: Mobile Health Applications enhance RPM by linking directly with devices for blood pressure tracking and more. Integration with Health IT Systems: Ensure RPM tools are compatible with electronic health records (EHRs) and other clinical management systems for efficient data sharing and analysis.