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Managing the Risks of Fast-Growing Digital Health

Health Populi

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Even with fast-growth of the sector, Beazley believes that digital health is still not yet mature, with a pattern of insurance claims still emerging. How to deal? Thus, the industry must focus on the range of risks that can be mitigated from cyber-attacks to human error and system failures.

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Digital health in Africa: hype or hope?

Lloyd Price

Digital health technologies can be used to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery, provide remote care to patients in rural areas, and collect and analyze data to improve public health. iSanté also collects data on patient health, which can be used to improve public health. The growth of the internet.

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

Topline, consumers “faced difficult choices,” Accenture notes in the report, choosing whether and how to continue their personal health care seeking to limit their risks of exposure to COVID-19. Patients represented one of three conditions, with one-third each managing cardiovascular, immunology/rheumatology, and oncology.

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

How to Become a Telehealth Specialist. Including multiple options when it comes to learning how to become a telehealth specialist: A formal classroom training that is ATA accredited, check out these options: American Telemedicine Association , University of Arizona and University of California, Davis.

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AstraZeneca launches Evinova, a health-tech business to accelerate innovation across the life sciences sector, the delivery of clinical trials and better health outcomes

Digital Health Global

Digital health The application of digital health technologies is seen as a solution to reduce healthcare costs, while also helping to improve patient experience and outcomes​. Starting from around 6% of GDP in 2006-10, the combined public health and long-term care expenditure for OECD countries is projected to reach at least 9.5%

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Top 45 Healthcare Blogs for 2019

eVisit

Published by HIMSS Media, this is a reliable, daily updated source for all your healthcare IT news, whether you're looking for the most recent updates on meaningful use rules, tips for implementing your EMR successfully, or are wondering how to leverage patient data to provide better care. Health IT Consultant.

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American Medical Association launches a Healthcare Interoperability & Innovation Challenge with Google

mHealth Insight

” This is an incredible turn around as the AMA CEO has been pointing fingers at mHealth and making claims it’s little more than modern day snake oil. Physicians have entrusted the AMA to advance the art and science of medicine and the betterment of public health on behalf of patients for more than 170 years.