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Bonus Features – February 25, 2024 – 73% of digital health vendors use FHIR APIs, 83% of clinicians think telemedicine is good for chronic condition management, plus 28 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Reps Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Bill Foster (D-IL) introduced the Patient Matching and Transparency in Certified Health IT (MATCH IT) Act of 2024 , which would standardize the way demographic information is entered into certified health IT products and ensure more precise patient matches.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly. 44 FHIR allows external third-party apps to integrate into the EHR workflow. With this new ability to combine EHR and mobile health data, iOS mobile health apps may become more useful and effective.

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AWS physician expert talks new use cases for telehealth, machine learning, cloud

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

During the pandemic, a health technology company provided IoT devices to people's homes that monitored COVID-19 symptoms, along with a platform for data collection. This results in data that is digitally available but not accessible to the right providers, creating an incomplete view of a patient's health history.