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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Peter Bloch, Market Development Manager – Healthcare at Avery Dennison Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is revolutionizing healthcare, by improving efficiency, patient safety, and supply chain management. Valued at USD 3.95

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Closing the Digital Health Gap Between Consumers and Physicians

Health Populi

Consumers are more bullish demanding virtual and digital health tools from their physicians than doctors are in providing it, based on the research findings in What can health systems do to encourage physicians to embrace virtual care? The smartwatch category, with fitness tracking, is hot in 2018, some “smarter” than others.

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A new COVID-19 wave is coming – how can health systems prepare?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Currently, hospitals rely on bar coding and manual counting to track drug circulation. Tagging drugs with RFID, he argued, would address problems with medication flow around the hospital and allow providers to tie distributions directly to a patient's electronic health record. Keep telemedicine tools easy to use.

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technologies from the Argentum 2020 virtual conference and suppliers

Aging in Place Technology Watch

These include GreatCall’s new Lively Flip phone with voice services and the announcement that Amazon’s Alexa has added 80,000 answers to healthcare questions through a partnership with Digital Health company Sharecare. category tags: senior living , Telehealth-RPM-Voice Health , Voice First/AI/Voice Assistants. Learn more at Netsmart.

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Health systems are notching big wins with their IT investments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Success Stories & ROI Having gained some hard-won wisdom about the dos and don'ts of information technology investments in recent years, healthcare providers are getting bolder in their digital transformation spending.

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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Joyoti Goswami At Geisinger in Pennsylvania, a pilot program to bring care to the homes of older patients with complex healthcare needs has shown a 35% reduction in visits to the emergency department visits, a 40% drop in hospital admissions and an average annual savings of nearly $8,000 per patient.

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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The adoption of digital tools was seen across all sectors; it has been particularly accelerated in primary care. This may not be straightforward as it concerns a central tenet to successful healthcare delivery in the UK: the relationship between patients and the service.