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HIMSS24: Showcasing Clinical Benefits from Digital Health

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Timothy Shiuh in their joint session “ Using Digital to Fill White Space Between Appointments.” acute or ambulatory care visits per year. Leveraging a maternity care app, expectant mothers receive digital perinatal education and resources, digital care pathways, and gestational diabetes and post-partum hypertension monitoring.

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The COVID-19 Era Has Grown Health Consumer Demand for Virtual Care

Health Populi

Over one-half of Americans would likely use virtual care for their healthcare services, and one in four people would actually prefer a virtual relationship with a primary care physician, according to the fifth annual 2020 Consumer Sentiment Survey from UnitedHealthcare.

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health is unquestionably becoming part of healthcare lexicon and fabric. Electronic health records (EHRs) and personal fitness trackers have helped create awareness through use. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes. From a provider standpoint.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

Growing digital health investments that will push patient utilization up. The deflating, lowering-cost factors will be: Consumers looking to lower-cost sites of care and. Health systems finding ways to provide more care using less resources. Preparations for the next pandemic, and.

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Digital Inclusion As Upstream Health Investment

Health Populi

The team offers policy recommendations, first that healthcare systems adopt digital inclusion and informed strategies to support patients in initial use of digital health tech and sustain that use over time; second, that patients’ levels of health literacy and access to digital literacies be assessed in the clinical context as a medical history (..)

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FDA and Digital Health Regulation

Health Blawg

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). Since some digital health tools will inevitably be subject to regulation while many will not, the agency has previously issued a high-level plan for streamlining its processes.