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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The future will see chronic disease being managed more from homes and physicians' offices than in a hospital setting. Chronically ill patients may not always require visiting the hospital frequently if their follow-ups and routine checkups can be managed remotely. Infrastructure to manage chronic diseases remotely.

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Vocal Markers Move Toward Clinical Use

Healthcare IT Today

Readers of this publication probably have heard of the impressive advances in analyzing voice patterns for disease. A simple app on a cell phone can detect unusual patterns in speech that suggest when a person is depressed or anxious, is losing cognitive function, or has pulmonary disease.