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April 2019 Telemedicine News

Enzyme Health

mHealth App for Juvenile Arthritis Patients Shows Promise for Youth Patient-Doctor Relationships. A new Swedish-developed mHealth app called Genia is showing promise at the University of Minnesota for fostering communication between juvenile arthritis patients and their care providers.

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Why are older adults demeaned by the health and tech industry?

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Think of that as you study the Shutterstock images of what grandma presumably looks like. . The 2017 Harvard article indicates that 1 million had signed up for these home nurse visits – but there were 19 million people covered by Medicare Advantage plans in 2017. Back to monitoring, connected health or otherwise. With persuasion?

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Three Trends Shaping the Future of Telehealth

Advanced Medical Reviews

One study concluded that telehealth could generate $6 billion in yearly healthcare cost savings for employers in the U.S., In a recent report to Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ( CMS) stated that telehealth laws limit the service as a healthcare option.

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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

The CCHP website also houses a vast resource center with research catalogs compiling peer-reviewed studies in several telemedicine domains. CMS : Stands for the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services. Originating site: The originating site is the location the telemedicine patient is in at the time of remote patient service.

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

Continue Education Journal

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which will help ensure providers have the ability to set patients up with proper at-home treatment and monitoring systems. The switch to telehealth services will also help stabilize the increasing healthcare costs.

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Bringing Digital Health to Those Who Need It Most

Chilmark Research

It’s for athletes with money to burn, not seniors on Medicare collecting Social Security. Amid all the pomp and circumstance, very little from CES applied to people like my parents. Under Armour’s $400 Health Box ? Fitness-tracking headphones ? The next time my parents carry music anywhere will be the first. That doesn’t work.

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Five Public Health Needs for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

A review of studies of text messaging for health demonstrates a general positive effect on health-related behavior. An interesting recent review of mental health mobile apps in the journal Nature discusses positive feasibility studies but a lack of robust outcomes data. Asthma has been well-studied from an epidemiologic standpoint.