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Five Aging and Health Technology Blog Posts from June 2020

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Who can comprehend that 43% of Covid-19 deaths are linked to nursing homes? Who would have thought that telehealth definitions would include phone calls and Facetime ? Or that high speed internet would not be available in nursing homes or the dementia care units in assisted living where their relatives now lived.

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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.

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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. And while telehealth, a key component of this, has received much of the focus and spend, RPM has been gaining traction since the beginning of the pandemic. Then COVID-19 hit. Then came COVID-19.

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How UCHealth's Virtual Health Center has enabled innovation, scaled capability and capacity

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The remote patient monitoring efforts were meant to supply support to over-stretched inpatient units by creating a means to provide care for acute patients in their home, thereby reducing length of stay while aiding in managing chronic illnesses and disease. " Kathy Deanda, UCHealth. The charge became to expand it quickly.

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9 Best Telemedicine Newsletters You Should Be Reading to Keep Up With the Industry

Enzyme Health

Close For Clinicians For Employers Telehealth Jobs Family Medicine General Practice Emergency Medicine Internal Medicine Nurse Practitioners Family Nurse Practitioners Physician Assistants Psychiatry / Mental Health Hospitalist Dont see your specialty? For Broad Digital Health and Telehealth News 3.

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Polyclinics and the Labour party's Digital Health plans for the NHS

Lloyd Price

Moving care from hospitals into communities: Telehealth and remote care: Labour plans to expand telehealth services, allowing patients to consult with healthcare professionals remotely and receive care closer to home. This allows them to provide a more coordinated and efficient delivery of care.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs.