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International Nurses Week 2020: Compassion, Expertise, and Trust

Digital Health Today

WHO designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife. Two additional events, National Nurses Week (May 6-12, 2020) and International Nurses Day (May 12, 2020), provide even more opportunity to recognize the nurses working at the front lines, and how this important group of professionals hold the key to shaping the future of healthcare.

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Dispatches from the Frontlines: Connected Health and COVID-19

Connected Health Initiative

The Connected Health Initiative (CHI) and our members worked tirelessly with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Congress, and state officials to expand access to connected health solutions during COVID-19 pandemic.

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The CES 2022 Tech Trends to Watch Have Everything To Do With Health/Care

Health Populi

As a connected health device, Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3, and. Withings’ FDA-cleared smartwatch as a health/care wearable technology. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Our homes are undergoing “the great home makeover,” Steve described. Welcome to #CES2022: where health/care is everywhere.

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Exploring the Benefits of Remote Care for Skilled Nursing Facilities

care innovations

A new report published in McKnight's Long Term Care News explores the connection between remote care and skilled nursing facilities, and how the application of the former can contribute to the success of the latter. By improving post-acute care for a variety of procedures, skilled nursing facilities can also maximize patient outcomes.

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CHI urges Congress to focus on opportunities to modernize the American healthcare system through the responsible uptake of innovative technology tools to achieve value-based care goals

Connected Health Initiative

This is a timely topic, especially now that the public health emergency (PHE) has ended, removing access to a number of flexibilities designed to improve access to healthcare. Members of the Connected Health Initiative (CHI) used these flexibilities to better reach patients, improve the quality of care, and reduce costs for caregivers.

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges.

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Real-Time Versus Store-and-Forward Telehealth Technology

AMD Telemedicine

They provide remote healthcare providers with live access to the exam site, not just with video conferencing technologies but also via live streaming medical images, documents, and video. These fields usually involve doctors and nurses relying on documented information and images rather than physical examinations.