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Can Consumer Electronics Help Stem the Decline of U.S. Life-Years? A Preface for #CES2023

Health Populi

For mental health — particularly, low-to-mid-level anxiety and depression — there are cognitive behavioral therapy apps and tools that have been shown to be useful for many patients backed by clinical evidence.

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The Home and Low-Touch Health Care – a Health Consumer Update from Capgemini

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The coronavirus pandemic has been a wake-up call for patients-as-consumers, seeking lower-touch health care services at home or closer-to-home in community health hubs. The second chart demonstrates patients’ preferences for using digital health tools before and in the advent of the coronavirus experience.

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Despite Greater Digital Health Engagement, Americans Have Worse Health and Financial Outcomes Than Other Nations’ Health Citizens

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Use of tools for prescription drugs and self-care. The first chart illustrates patients’ use of tech and tools for health and fitness by country studied. health care is Americans’ growing financial exposure to first-dollar costs as patients continue to morph into medical bill payors. In the case of the U.S.,

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Virtual Health Tech Enables the Continuum of Health from Hospital to Home

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More granularly, TripleTree defines the field first differentiating virtual health from telehealth, and then in terms of the segments that cover the marketscape. Telehealth is the sub-set of delivery methods and tools used to deliver health care services.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

We spoke with HIMSS Senior Director, Health Information Systems Rob Havasy about the data management challenges posed by remote care delivery. Virtual care poses distinct privacy and security risk factors that must be managed, with new tools and data streams to safeguard and new responsibilities on both the patient and provider side.

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“Healthcare Isn’t Healthy:” the Global Challenge of Health Equity, and Calls-to-Action

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AI tools can bring transformative changes that enhance the delivery of care and improve health outcomes.” Then there is technology: “There is a need for AI solutions to recognize diversity,” the report asserts. “AI

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In telehealth hearing, House committee weighs access against cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Telehealth is a tool in our toolkit that is largely substitutive, not additive, to in-person care," she said. Harvard Medical School Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine Dr. Ateev Mehrota proposed a more measured approach.