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First connected health service in Malaysia launched

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

WHAT IT'S ABOUT The 400-bed hospital joint venture by Ramsay Health Care Australia and Sime Darby Malaysia seeks to "revolutionise" healthcare delivery through its latest service called Connected Care. Enterprise Taxonomy: Quality Care Patient Access Population and Public Health Care

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Regional Victoria expands access to virtual care with Microsoft HoloLens rollout

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Backed by an A$80,000 (over $50,000) investment, the region-wide rollout comes following a successful trial at Bairnsdale Regional Health Service – believed to be the world's first application of the technology in a virtual medical setting. Its rollout for home visits will follow soon.

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Digital health apps could save NHS billions, says report

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digital health could save public health services in England £7.5 Around a quarter (27 percent) of consultations via the app did not need to be handled by a GP and 41 percent could have been handed by another healthcare professional such as a pharmacist or nurse. WHY IT MATTERS. ON THE RECORD.

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The Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2023 Are About Social, Mental and Behavioral Health

Health Populi

In 2014, ECRI pivoted the title of this annual report to “patient safety concerns,” a nuance away from health technology. While technology is embedded in this list, the headlines have more to do with social, mental, and behavioral health than pure-play technology and devices.

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How Consumers and Physicians View Digital Health – An Update from the Consumer Technology Association

Health Populi

Most consumers are bullish on the benefits that digital health technologies can play in their health. Furthermore, clinicians see the potential for digital health tech’s to address and improve health disparities, access and equity in improving personal and public health.

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Singapore's Ministry of Health expands virtual ward pilots

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A nurse meets a patient at their home and sets up medication and equipment for treatment and devices for teleconsultation and remote monitoring. Nurses can also visit patients up to several times a day to administer drip-based medication or draw blood for testing.

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The benefits and future of remote patient monitoring

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The pandemic exposed the need for the rapid adoption of increasingly innovative digital health technologies. Q: Who on the care team should be managing RPM (doctors versus nurses, case managers, etc.)? Then COVID-19 hit. But for RPM to live up to its potential, our industry needs reimbursement reform.