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Acute Disease Examples and How Remote Patient Monitoring Helps in their Management

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National Health Survey , kids under age five have the highest rate of developing acute health issues, averaging four conditions per year. The inclusion of codes for both acute and chronic diseases highlights the importance of RPM in managing various health conditions and the recognition of its value by the CMS.

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Patients Don’t Trust Big Tech with Personal Health Information Much Preferring Healthcare Providers as Data Stewards

Health Populi

Nearly all patients are concerned about their medical records getting leaked or breached, which is The State of Patient Privacy , the title of a consumer study from Health Gorilla with a headline finding that “Patients don’t trust Big Tech with their health data.”

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The Single Market for Healthcare in Europe: Learnings for the U.S.

Health Populi

In summary, three over-arching issues come out of the paper: ensuring health citizens’ secure access to their health data within nations and across EU borders; enabling personalized medicine through the shared European data infrastructure; and, assuring citizen empowerment with digital tools for feedback and person-centered care.

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Rebel Health: The Personal and Professional Passion of Susannah Fox

Health Populi

If you were involved with writing a business plan from the earliest days of digital health (in the so-called “Health 1.0 or Health 2.0” The book’s many examples of citizen scientists spans at least forty years, and even features very current insights into Long COVID and the use of TikTok in patient communities.

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Most Health Consumers Expect Technology To Play a Larger Role As Tech-Angst & Privacy Concerns Grow

Health Populi

We know web-search for health information — seeking advice on symptoms, prescription drugs, or diagnoses — has been a mainstream behavior for most consumers for several years. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Consumers getting more “angsty” about privacy, and this extends to health data.

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Support Growing for Pharmacists to Ease Physician Workload

Healthcare IT Today

In a recent survey, Surescripts found growing support for pharmacists to prescribe a select number of medications to patients, thus easing the workload on physicians. Pharmacists, for example, are trained and licensed to prescribe and renew a small number of medications. What was the most surprising finding from the survey?

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Survey: Remote Patient Monitoring Reduces Hospital Visits, Improves Patient Satisfaction

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A new survey conducted by KLAS Research and the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) on the implementation of remote patient monitoring (RPM) within the U.S. Remote Patient Monitoring Survey: Reduced Costs, Improved Patient Satisfaction. But those aren’t the only benefits of remote patient monitoring revealed by the survey.