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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

Health Populi

By the middle of 2020, as Edelman noted the sharp decline in trust for tech companies, consumers-as-health-citizens’ trust in sharing data in the COVID-19 pandemic for contact tracing and tracking tumbled. Health disparities, continued digital divide, health inequities, are unsustainable if we prioritize advancing public health.

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Telehealth advocates ramp up pressure on elected officials

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The American Telemedicine Association announced Friday that it had launched ATA Action, a new affiliated trade organization aimed at supporting the enactment of state and federal telehealth coverage throughout the United States. Teladoc Health. HCA Healthcare. Hims & Hers. Intermountain Healthcare. One Medical. Ophelia Prescribery.

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Fresenius Connected Health: Improving Patient Care Through New Technology

Lloyd Price

Fresenius Medical Care North America (FMCNA) is adopting and supporting new Connected Health technologies that empower patients to monitor, collect, and share health and treatment data with their physicians and care providers. Connected Health and new technologies in health care don’t come without concerns and risks.

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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

Health Populi

The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. What can we expect to hear relevant to the public health challenge?

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Telehealth and Program Integrity

Connected Health Initiative

In one recurrent fraud scheme, fraudsters contact target patients via telephone, pay kickbacks to providers to write unnecessary prescriptions for durable medical equipment (DME), and then send the equipment to target patients while billing Medicare.

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Addressing Health Equity Must Include Digital Equity Beyond Access To Medical Services and Insurance

Health Populi

This, too, was a challenge for people who needed health care at home, to avoid contact to avoid the risk of being exposed to the virus. But many students lacked access to either or both the physical technology and the data plan-on-ramp to the Internet.

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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. Bardy Diagnostics.