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How one gastroenterology practice uses hybrid virtual care to improve patient experience

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Working with a registered dietitian allows patients to quickly identify triggers and shift gears to different therapies if this particular diet doesn’t work," he noted. "Giving patients the best of virtual and in-person care is supported by two-way information exchange," he continued.

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A New Health Literacy Pillar: Personal Data Stewardship

Health Populi

The growing use of APIs in health information technology innovation for patient care has been a boon to speeding development placed in the hands of providers and patients. The goals were to identify risks and vulnerabilities and to develop recommendations for protecting health consumers’ personal health information.

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Why telehealth is more than just a pandemic trend

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

What role has telemedicine grown to play during the course of the COVID-19 pandemic? From here, telehealth will evolve to strengthen patient-provider engagement. As patient expectations grow, telehealth will aid providers in meeting those demands by being the primary tool for a modern patient experience.

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2024 SPM Update from Board Chair Mary Hennings

Society for Participatory Medicine

We developed two curriculum modules, one on participatory medicine and the other on health equity for Health Union, who became a gold member in 2023. The curriculum is now being used as part of the certification course Health Union has developed for patient leaders of its online, condition-specific communities.

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Closing the Gender Health Gap: How Digital Technology Can Support Better Women’s Health

Healthcare IT Today

That’s why I was delighted to see data and digital included prominently as key areas within the recently published Women’s Health Strategy in the UK. . Expanding the reach of women’s health services. Providing health information . For women, the planned overhaul of women’s health content on NHS.uk

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

Health Populi

Mark McClellan, former FDA Commissioner, and colleagues at Duke’s Margolis Center for Health Policy, on how the U.S. be enabled by designating COVID-19 as reportable to state and local health officials, and as a nationally notifiable condition that must be reported.” This process can.