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Opioid Drug Addiction: How Digital Health Technologies Can Help

The Digital Health Corner

The NIDA of the NIH has a group of evidence-based screening tools for adolescents and adults to be used by health professionals. Notwithstanding this, many healthcare providers fail to utilize evidence-based treatments because they are not trained to do so. It has spawned interest in telehealth as a treatment tool.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

Consolidation often results in providers needing to go to new hospitals or offices, necessitating training on new EHR systems. This may be reflected in how physicians, nurses and other clinical personnel are trained, compensated, and included in policy and procedural changes. Clinical applications.

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HIPAA Considerations When Adding Video Calling To a Health App

SightCall

As an example, the covered entity could be a health insurance company while the business associate could be a startup that utilizes Protected Health Information (PHI) for its mHealth app. HIPAA compliant data storage is a hot topic for every mHealth startup handling PHI. Developers Hate HIPAA. Although the U.S.

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The new Digital Health model : Disruption, Engagement, Integration and Trust

Lloyd Price

The Philippines has implemented an open source electronic medical record system for government health facilities called CHITS (the Community Health Information Tracking system). CHITS is managed by the UP Manila – National Telehealth Centre. The program has been able to improve health care delivery in government health centres.