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Nurses: The Force for Change

Mobile Health Matters

This week marks National Nurses Week in the U.S., both a celebration of the profession and an opportunity to educate the public about the role nurses play in healthcare and their communities. Nurses Driving Change. Nurses’ primary focus is on the quality of care, comfort and safety of their patients.

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Post-Pandemic, U.S. Healthcare is Entering a “Provide More Care For Less” Era – Pondering PwC’s 2022 Forecast

Health Populi

What enables those deflating cost-reducers is the growing adoption of digital health tools, from telehealth and virtual care to self-care in patients’ hands at home and on-the-go via mobile health apps. What a difference a decade makes for clinicians’ embrace of electronic health records.

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Older People Are Digital Migrants, and Best Buy Health Is Paving the Road for the Journey

Health Populi

The company notes the top three features and services that older people seek in a mobile phone are emergency notifications, voice assistance, and access to telehealth. Access to doctors and nurses through Urgent Care on the phone. Other features in the Lively Flip are: 24 x 7 access to the GreatCall Urgent Response call center.

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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

Health Populi

I discussed that important public health/economic challenge here in Health Populi from a RAND report.]. adults are most satisfied with healthcare information they receive through nurses and physician’s assistants, as well as eye doctors, pharmacists, dentists, nurse practitioners, doctors, and dietitians/nutritionists.

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

Continue Education Journal

Nurses, physicians, counselors or dentists can all provide telehealth services. 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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Essential Telemedicine Terms Clinicians Should Know

Enzyme Health

Collaborative agreement : A collaborative agreement is the relationship between a physician who serves in a supervisory role and a nurse practitioner who is delivering clinical services to a patient. Originating site: The originating site is the location the telemedicine patient is in at the time of remote patient service.

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Digital Health Academic Journals

Digital Health Hub

Canada H7 Health Informatics Journal 2.934 Standard/OA SAGE Publications Inc. UK H8 Applied Clinical Informatics 2.762 Standard/OA Georg Thieme Verlag Germany H9 Computers Informatics Nursing 2.146 Standard/OA Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Ltd. UK POPULATION HEALTH P1 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 14.56