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Sound security practices key to fulfilling telehealth's promise, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"However, major vulnerabilities are emerging around privacy and security standards for video conferencing and messaging apps when used for telehealth (such as consumer technologies like Zoom), which can be easily infiltrated – providing hackers with additional opportunities to breach highly-sensitive information."

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Houston FQHC to deploy AI-based mental health support at no cost

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In his role as a senior analyst of digital health at consulting firm IHS, Roashan told Healthcare IT News that machine learning and chatbots could be effective next-gen population health tools in specific cases. " Andrea Fox is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Telecom companies are quietly building a big presence in HealthTech: 5 Case Studies explore further

Lloyd Price

By combining their expertise in connectivity, security, and data with the needs of the healthcare industry, they can develop innovative solutions that improve patient care and reduce costs. We explore further with 5 Case Studies - Orange Enovacom, BT Healthcare, Verizon and Visionable, Deutsche Telekom, AT&T Business.

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Women are less likely to use video for telehealth care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A wide-ranging study published this past week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that older people, women, Black and Latinx individuals, and patients with lower household incomes were less likely to use video for telemedicine care during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. healthcare system," they wrote.

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Why healthcare leaders should embrace home-based technologies

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Home health technologies will have an increasingly larger role to play in healthcare delivery as the silver tsunami of the aging population strain the system. Home-based health technologies are any preventive care technology tool that elevates health.

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Connected Health Initiative – Our Health IT Friend on Capitol Hill

Healthcare IT Today

They are a trusted resource and voice for our industry so that policymakers at federal, state, and local levels can be better informed about emerging digital health technology. Vendors can help by contributing clinical efficacy studies to CHI’s new Digital Health Evidence Resource Database to bolster their advocacy efforts.

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Can Digital Technologies Help Overcome Diabetes? An Assessment of the Recent PHTI Review

Healthcare IT Today

So there was much consternation recently when the Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI) released a report saying that digital interventions weren’t helping people with diabetes much and weren’t worth their added costs. Their rigorous standards identified 1,139 possible studies but eliminated all but 49 in the end.