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

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Telehealth and Telemedicine Definition. We often hear telehealth and telemedicine used interchangeably, so let’s set the record straight – telehealth is the umbrella term that refers to medical services that healthcare practitioners provide to patients from a distance.

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Trust-Busted: The Decline of Trust in Technology and What It Means for Health

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How to address the trust-busted technology industry? Ironically, the more people share data in a public health crisis, the more that information can be used for good to, in the case of the coronavirus, test, track, and snuff the virus. Trust underpins health engagement, especially critical in a public health crisis.

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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

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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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Telehealth and COVID-19 in the U.S.: A Conversation with Ann Mond Johnson, ATA CEO

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The coronavirus spawned another kind of gift to China and the nation’s health citizens: telemedicine, the essay explains. COVID-19 accelerated telemedicine adoption, the story goes, being accessed mainstream through major regions of China. Q4 – How has the ATA been responding to the coronavirus phenomenon?

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A Vote for Telehealth is a Vote for American Patients’ and Doctors’ Well-Being

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health care, bring people back into the system, bolster physician well-being, and deliver on the promise of high-quality care that the U.S. has known how to deliver. Mental health via virtual platforms has sustained significant use since the waning of the public health crisis.

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Health Consumers After COVID-19 – A View from the Consumer Technology Association

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In January 2020, before we knew how to spell “coronavirus,” millions of consumers were already “Amazon-Primed” for everyday life-flows and consumer behaviors. What a difference a public health crisis makes, accelerating digital health beyond fitness geeks, Quantified Self adherents, and smartwatch adopters.