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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Digital health technology has seen an incredible growth in the last few years, fueled by a combination of consumerization of wearable technologies, ubiquity of mobile devices, proliferation of technology incubators, attention by government health and regulatory agencies and involvement of large companies heretofore not focused on healthcare.

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Digital Health Technologies for Alzheimer’s Disease

The Digital Health Corner

Relative to Ad specifically, I would reference the incredibly informative and moving award-winning film Alive Inside , documenting the response of patients with severe Ad to music relevant to their personal past. An intriguing interactive game/tool is Tovertafel , a Dutch technology which projects via suspended box visuals onto a table.

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Three Ways Technology Can Address Healthcare’s Growing Pains

Mobile Health Matters

Currently, the process for documenting ECG strips in many hospitals requires clinicians to print the rhythm strips, then manually cut and paste snippets onto a piece of paper, before scanning them into the EHR. Arts and Crafts.

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Five Reasons why the FDA got it Right with Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

Innovation and improvements in digital health occur at lightning speed in comparison to other FDA regulated industries and require different approval and oversight strategies (see below). The Action Plan is a major step in the right direction because it recognizes digital health’s unique attributes which span both IT and clinical arenas.

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New Study of Mindfulness Apps & Online Programs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Recently published in the Journal for Technology and Behavioral Science , the study was designed to assess the current state of the literature on the use of online programs and mobile applications of self-compassion, mindfulness, and meditation (digital mindfulness-based interventions; dMBIs). Additional Reading Armstrong, C.

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COPD Management: A Guide to Remote Patient Monitoring in 2024

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Through RPM, patients can use wearable devices and mobile health applications to transmit data such as oxygen saturation levels, respiratory rate, and activity levels to their healthcare providers in real-time. By intervening early, healthcare providers can prevent complications and help patients maintain optimal health.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

I’d like to discuss what I believe are five areas of significant opportunity for quality technologies. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes. According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015.