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Some Telehealth Platforms Are Tracking Sensitive Patient Data: Are They Violating HIPAA?

Telebehavioral Health Institute

According to a recent study by MarkUp and STAT, 49 out of 50 telehealth platforms share sensitive data in ways that may harm healthcare clients and patients. Shared information can include detailed descriptions of health issues, names, street addresses, email addresses, diagnoses, or prescription information.

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Wearable, Shareable, Virtual: The Demands of the Digital Health Consumer in 2018

Health Populi

As I wrote here in April 2017, telehealth and virtual healthcare are mainstreaming. This week at the 2018 annual HIMSS conference, telehealth is playing a mainstream role in discussions about right-sizing and right-placing healthcare. Three in four consumers in America say technology is important to managing their health.

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How Millennials are Reshaping the Entire Healthcare Sector

Advanced Medical Reviews

These reasons include: The desire for instant access, which is manifested in preferences for same-day appointments, telehealth services and short wait times. There is an opening for these motivations to drive significant changes in healthcare. Millennial influence on the healthcare sector: Online reviews and social media.

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Why It's Time to Embrace Telemedicine

eVisit

I t’s more than 40 years old and was developed as a way to use improvements in communication technology to bring quality medical diagnoses and care to individuals in remote parts of the world. What’s this new thing called Telemedicine? For starters, it’s not new!

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The quickly evolving COVID-19 public health emergency has warranted the growing use of telehealth and non-invasive remote monitoring devices to facilitate patient monitoring while reducing patient and healthcare provider contact and possible exposure to the virus. iRhythm Technologies.

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How Telehealth Can Democratize Healthcare

Healthcare IT Today

However, modern healthcare technology is poised to change that, helping extend essential health services into underserved areas and democratize healthcare for all. Naturally, this begs the question; what does it mean to democratize healthcare?