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Successful RPM needs leading edge tech, thoughtful implementations

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This technology enables doctors and nurses to monitor a patient’s vitals while the patient is in the comfort of their own home – freeing up bedspace in healthcare facilities and removing the stress of a hospital stay. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A recent study found that RPM can lead to 87% fewer hospitalizations.

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The user experience with Google: You are the product for better or worse

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Google can be embarrassed, perhaps not nearly enough. Mull the intriguing combination of ‘protecting’ your privacy, saving you from scammers getting into your email, and other altruistic (or defensive) motives. But as you click to read it, you are offered the opportunity to subscribe or sign in. Odd, since they sent you the email.

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Technology, Health Equity, and Participatory Medicine in the Care Management of Sickle Cell Patients

Society for Participatory Medicine

At the time, I was delegated to sign up patients and their families and teach them about the portal. At the time, I was delegated to sign up patients and their families and teach them about the portal. Several of the families did not have a computer or access to one, nor did they have email addresses.

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Patient outcomes point to efficacy of telehealth and virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The emergence of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting surge in the adoption of telemedicine are helping address patients’ needs without major signs of safety concerns, according to a study by Kaiser Permanente. Email the writer: nathaneddy@gmail.com Twitter: @dropdeaded209 Enterprise Taxonomy:

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Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG): emerging HealthTech sub sector is 'one to watch in 2024 and 2025

Lloyd Price

Exec Summary: Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) is a way of measuring vital signs, like your heart rate, but without touching you! Camera Captures: The camera picks up on these colour changes over time. Overall, rPPG is a developing health tech with promise for contactless vital sign monitoring. Email lloyd@nelsonadvisors.co.uk

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Help Texts launches text-based support for healthcare workers

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The subscription-based service sends semi-customized supportive texts based on what users input about their experiences when signing up and without initiation. Email: afox@himss.org. Reducing healthcare worker burnout. She developed Sharp Index to be a resource to support the healthcare industry's mental health challenges.

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Amazon looks to bring telehealth, in-person care to 20 more cities

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But its in-person services, which include follow-up blood draws and exams, have been limited so far to users in D.C. That would bring the total number of cities up to 22, in addition to the entirety of Washington state. In June, an Amazon exec said it had signed several companies to the company's telehealth service.