Health Populi
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
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.
Continue Education Journal
JUNE 12, 2019
Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.
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Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
While Millennials are more likely to current use digital health tools compared with older Americans, Seniors’ killer-app for digital health is ePrescribing, refilling prescriptions, used by nearly one-half of older people. This is roughly equal to patients across all age cohorts in the study.
The Digital Health Corner
JUNE 14, 2017
There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. We need EHRs which are clinically oriented with good user interfaces.
The Digital Health Corner
JULY 17, 2017
Perhaps the best definition of patient safety is that of the World Health Organization. Simply put, it is “…the prevention of errors and adverse effects to patients associated with health care.” Improving health literacy. Patient safety initiatives have taken many forms. I would like to highlight a few.
Chilmark Research
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Our conversations with healthcare organizations (HCOs) has not been all that insightful either as their PHM definitions are as disparate as the vendors. For example, today PHM is whatever a vendor decides it to be based on their own core competencies.
LinkousThink
JANUARY 2, 2010
Remote monitoring, mHealth applications and telemedicine for emergency response are being deployed in every metropolitan area. Telemedicine, telehealth, eHealth, mHealth and telecare are all different. Telemedicine is a subset of health information technology (HIT). OK, I saved one of the best for last.
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