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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Remote patient monitoring The question of virtual care's post-pandemic staying power has been answered resoundingly: Telemedicine is here to stay. By Bill Siwicki | October 17, 2023 News Covenant Health advances hospital-at-home program Dr. John Busigin, Covenant Health's Advanced Care at Home medical director, said that 20-30% of.

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UW Medicine CIO's advice: prepping IT systems for COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Unlike a weather event or a shooting, our response to COVID-19 is a continuously evolving process that has no endpoint and requires us to adapt by the hour," said Dr. Jane Fellner, a UW Medicine physician who provides clinical guidance for EHR changes. Help your Help Desk. Keep everyone connected and regularly updated.

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Should Physicians Give Their Cell Phone Number to Patients?

33 Charts - Digital Health

Let’s try Dr. V.’ Like Dr. Sevilla, most of us on call are primed to answer, admit, refer and advise. Another case is the critical MRI at the end of the day when I’m playing phone tag with a family. I shouldn’t be dispensing advice in that circumstance. And if I did, you shouldn’t want it. I’m in Tazmania. And I’m up.

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Voice, health, wellbeing -- notes from January 2020 report

Aging in Place Technology Watch

According to research by Voicebot.ai, consumers are somewhat interested in using voice assistants to answer questions of their various voice assistants. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , healthcare. More to follow in January 2020]. .

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

Health Populi

Dr. John Whyte, Chief Medical Officer with WebMD, spoke about how people use the internet for health care search. Top search terms for vision/optical information were for dry eye (39%, and weighted toward women seeking this answer), astigmatism (34%), myopia (29%) and floaters/flashes (24%). How can I banish bags from my eyes?

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How health IT's leading innovators are using AI now, and where they see it going

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

By Mike Miliard | August 10, 2023 News Senator wants Google to answer for accuracy, ethics of generative AI tool Sen. By Andrea Fox | August 02, 2023 News At UMich, AI-based fraud, waste and abuse system aims to cut costs and protect patients Dr. Mohammed Saeed from the University of Michigan Medical School discusses how the artificial.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

digital literacy is lacking, with just 40% of adults correctly answering questions requiring digital skills. Region Tag: Global Edition. "We can't keep thinking DSL and satellite are broadband. You cannot give people a computer, the internet and telehealth apps and expect success unless they have a digital literacy skills!