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PSYPACT: Telepsychology Across State Lines Officially Approved

Telebehavioral Health Institute

On April 23rd, 2019, Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp signed GA HB 26 into law, making Georgia the eighth state to enact the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact (PSYPACT), and thereby officially legalizing interjurisdictional telepsychology for states who have joined the PSYPACT. The … Read more. The post PSYPACT: Telepsychology Across State Lines Officially Approved appeared first on TBH Institute Blog.

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Impact of Personal Health Records and Wearables on Health Outcomes and Patient Response

Lloyd Price

Background: Although using the technologies for a variety of chronic health conditions such as personal health record (PHR) is reported to be acceptable and useful, there is a lack of evidence on the associations between the use of the technologies and the change of health outcome and patients’ response to a digital health app. Objective: This study aimed to examine the impact of the use of PHR and wearables on health outcome improvement and sustained use of the health app that can be associated

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Technology will only transform medicine if we get privacy right

Lloyd Price

The cost of global healthcare is unsustainable. As people live longer they have more chronic diseases, their knees hurt, their cataracts dull their vision and they can't hear very well. It’s pretty clear the human body was not designed to live this long. And yet patients’ expectations are higher, putting greater and greater costs on our healthcare systems.

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