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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Digital health in Africa is a rapidly growing field, with the potential to improve access to healthcare and quality of care across the continent. Cost: Digital health technologies can be expensive, which can make them inaccessible to low-income populations.

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mHealth Insights live from #HIMSS18

mHealth Insight

Chris plans to attend the following Conference tracks that have a mHealth focus: Monday 5 March (13:45pm Lando 4302): INTEGRATING DATA SOURCES TO SUPPORT CARE DELIVERY. Learning Objectives: Discuss the role of nurses in training patients to use new mHealth technologies. Outline current innovative uses of mHealth data.

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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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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. Digital resources for families and caregivers are necessary as well.

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Blood Pressure From the Wrist for the First Time – Welcome, Omron HeartGuide

Health Populi

We have entered an era where our home and body are becoming our personal health hub. Wearable tech is getting better designed, more accessible for people who don’t have to be trained clinicians to use — and the HeartGuide is an example of this opportunity made real.

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New Study of Mindfulness Apps & Online Programs

Telebehavioral Health Institute

Recently published in the Journal for Technology and Behavioral Science , the study was designed to assess the current state of the literature on the use of online programs and mobile applications of self-compassion, mindfulness, and meditation (digital mindfulness-based interventions; dMBIs). Berthod, J., Martinez, L.Z. 7, 477–515 (2022).

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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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