Digital Health Global

JANUARY 30, 2024

The statewide nonprofit health information organization will send and receive Admit, Discharge, and Transfer (ADT) notifications at no cost for most CalHHS Data Exchange Framework (DxF) participants through new exchange EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 27, 2018

Digital health improves service delivery and clinical outcomes, and we know that cannot happen if we don’t look at the data." 1) Jembi - Rwanda Health Information Exchange (RHIE) The RHIE project comprises of an international project team and is funded by the IDRC, Rockefeller Foundation, PEPFAR and the HIPPP initiative.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

The website providing a guide to the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) asks the pertinent question: is using WhatsApp in a professional setting by healthcare workers compliant with the law? Lots of doctors take photos of patients’ wounds and x-rays and share them with other doctors on WhatsApp.

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The Digital Health Corner

JULY 17, 2017

Improving health literacy. Health literacy is defined as the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health What does health literacy have to do with patient safety? I would like to highlight a few.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 25, 2023

Parkview Health System, based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, has incorporated its telemedicine programs into a larger digital health strategy aimed at meeting patients wherever they have a need for care. Parkview Health has two large metropolitan sites and several community hospitals.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Health Populi’s Hot Points: A new study from Weber Shandwick and KRC asked a question that speaks to consumers’ trust and willingness to engage with different sources of health information. They are, in my evolving concept of the health/care ecosystem, retail health’s front-line workers.

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Lloyd Price

JUNE 10, 2018

Traditional digital health models Most developed countries have moved away from paper-based healthcare solutions and have adopted or are in the process of adopting ‘traditional’ digital healthcare models (see Figure 4). Singapore is now transitioning to a new digital health model.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A nurse meets a patient at their home and sets up medication and equipment for treatment and devices for teleconsultation and remote monitoring. Nurses can also visit patients up to several times a day to administer drip-based medication or draw blood for testing. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Health Populi

MAY 16, 2023

Strikingly, the trust deficit with retail stores for medical care was substantial, with 80% of consumers telling Wolters Kluwer that they would “probably never” go to a department store for health care. In 5 years, 61% of U.S.

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Patients’ self-diagnosing conditions online is a new-normal for people engaging with health information online — whether via WebMD and the ClevelandClinic.com or via TikTok — a growing platform for medical information. Trust with health systems is greater, but still lacking resilience year-on-year.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

We heard from the Mace family, a couple who experienced first hand the difficulties with health data exchange after Tristan (26 yo M) had to undergo an emergency heart transplant after experiencing a catastrophic cardiac event. Key takeaways: From a nursing perspective – focus on virtual nursing.

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Lloyd Price

MARCH 13, 2024

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 7, 2023

We are facing an estimated 900K deficit of registered nurses by the end of this decade. The OntarioMD Digital Health Conference returned to in-person for the first time since COVID-19. Read more… Healthcare IT Today: Health IT Potpourri. How Technology can Address Clinician Shortage and Burnout.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

MARCH 15, 2023

million users that their protected health information was shared with tech companies like Meta, Google, and TikTok. The strategy involves promising consumers their information is safe, only to knowingly provide that sensitive, perhaps even protected, health information to marketing companies for profit.

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Digital Health Global

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

About Medscape Medscape, a subsidiary of WebMD Health Corp., is the leading source of clinical news, health information, and point-of-care tools for healthcare professionals. Medscape offers specialists, primary care doctors, and other health professionals the most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Healthdirect Australia , a national public health information service in the country, recently announced that it will be working with home-grown telehealth startup Coviu, to power its government-funded healthdirect Video Call service. In April 2019, Swinburne started working with Coviu for telehealth education. ON THE RECORD.

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Enzyme Health

MARCH 27, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 9, 2023

News and Research The Connected Health Initiative released recommendations for state-level policymakers to strike a balance between protecting personal health information and supporting the use of digital health tools. Consumer engagement company Carenet Health hired Rhonda Gibler as Chief Sales Officer.

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GlobalMed

AUGUST 3, 2021

This includes a variety of nonprofit and public eligible providers like teaching hospitals and medical schools, community medical centers, local health departments or agencies, not-for-profit hospitals, rural health clinics, and skilled nursing facilities. Solving Virtual Care Access Means Tackling Digital Divide Barriers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 25, 2022

Biofourmis continues to buck health tech funding trends with this Series D extension, which comes during a downturn in digital health investment. According to a recent Rock Health report , the first half of 2022 saw 329 digital health funding deals totaling $10.3 billion—down from $14.7

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2022

Virtual cardiology care company Heartbeat Health is working with Caption Health , which applies AI to heart ultrasounds, to make scans and follow-up appointments available via telehealth. Nurse-1-1 released its live chat tool, which provides patients with access to more than 3,000 providers in its nationwide network.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Virtua Health is a nonprofit community health system with five hospitals, seven urgent care centers and 280-plus locations across South New Jersey and Philadelphia. It employs 14,000 people, including more than 2,850 doctors, physician assistants and nurse practitioners, and has more than one million patient encounters per year.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Looking five year into the future, 61% of patients saw primary care services being provided at pharmacies, retail clinics and/or pharmacy clinics, and more than half said they’d trust pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide healthcare services and prescriptions if it led to lower costs.

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Enzyme Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? Only 20% are listed here. Sign Up to see them all. Only 20% are listed here.

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Lloyd Price

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Near-record funding and a string of public offerings have led to substantial buzz for the digital-health arena. They’re the nitty-gritty problems, those which may go unnoticed by the vast majority of entrepreneurs but whose solutions help patients seamlessly negotiate a fragmented health system.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

APRIL 9, 2020

Health Informatics (HI) is a relatively new, interdisciplinary field. HI (also called Health Information Systems) uses information technology to organize and analyze health records to improve healthcare outcomes. Tools include medical terminology, information and communication systems, and computer technology.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Healthcare providers are the front-line stakeholders who, increasingly, are taking on payment and incentives to help manage individual patient and communities’ health. But trust is a precursor to health engagement, so trust can be a barrier to patients and providers working together to improve healthcare.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 9, 2023

ultimately empowering consumers to take control of their digital health journey. This is a simple example of using unrelated but relevant whole health information in a patient’s moment of need to identify adherence gaps and offer meaningful support with technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Looking five year into the future, 61% of patients saw primary care services being provided at pharmacies, retail clinics and/or pharmacy clinics, and more than half said they’d trust pharmacists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants to provide healthcare services and prescriptions if it led to lower costs.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

AI-driven care navigation platforms enable staff (medical assistants, nurses) to find patients who are falling through the cracks. Patients who have digital access to these key resources are more likely to understand when a visit to a physician, emergency room, or urgent care is necessary.

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Digital Health Today

AUGUST 16, 2019

An undeniable consequence of the IoT revolution is that consumers have no shortage of resources or access to medical and health-driven information. These patches serve as eyes and ears on the patient when the doctors or nurses cannot be there; they will send alerts if the patient’s conditions unpredictably change or destabilize.

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Telebehavioral Health Institute

JULY 11, 2023

The Headspace layoff challenge to mental health norms is the second large-scale problem with the telebehavioral health boom since January. Please take a moment to let me know if this information is helpful to you, and comment below with other resources and thoughts.

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Consumer eHealth Engagement

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Buoy Health AI triage bot True to their mission “Making health care easier, so life can be better”, Banner Health has invested in digital health technologies to support their patient experience. ” “It gave me updates on my progress without bothering the nurses.”

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American Well

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Last week I was fortunate enough to attend New York eHealth Collaborative’s Digital Health Conference 2013 in New York City. This wild and beautiful city is a magnet for all types of industry, so it’s no surprise that it’s a hotbed of digital health technology innovation. I had 48 hours to absorb as much as possible.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 25, 2019

With FHIR 4, Open APIs, Carequality and CommonWell reaching a milestone of sorts and the finalized information blocking rule from Health and Human Services coming, the table is set for notable advancements in health information exchange. Nurses are well-positioned to lead innovation and digital transformation.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JUNE 28, 2019

NewYork-Presbyterian has launched the Hauser Institute for Health Innovation, in recognition of the visionary philanthropy of longtime supporters Rita E. The Hausers have given more than $50 million to NewYork-Presbyterian in support of the hospital’s innovation programs in health information technology and telemedicine since 2011.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

APRIL 4, 2024

"This achievement is a major milestone for Corsano Health in its mission to provide continuous patient monitoring, anytime, anywhere," said CEO Dr Peter Stas. The bracelet is intended for use in professional healthcare facilities, such as hospitals or skilled nursing facilities, or at home by trained healthcare professionals.

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