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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This will allow patients and providers to flow between different sites. Reduce community transmission with patient self-screening. Make patient screening tools accessible prior to presenting. Priority needs to be on ensuring your patients know how to self-screen. Telehealth is critical – build capability now.

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My Health, My Data – Thinking Consumers, Privacy and Self-Care at HIMSS 2023

Health Populi

” That could include such data tags as cookie identifiers, device identifiers, and IP addresses. As we learn new technology innovations and approaches to business modes and sites of delivery at #HIMSS23, we should be mindful that a patient treated in one state may have data protections not extended by another state. In the U.S.,

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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Financial/Revenue Cycle Management Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth Video visits, temperature sensors and wearables can replace the need for clinic visits. Chronically ill patients may not always require visiting the hospital frequently if their follow-ups and routine checkups can be managed remotely.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than one-in-three patient interactions will go virtual globally – as the physician will no longer be the automatic first touchpoint. Throughout the crisis, virtual visits, remote monitoring, and patient engagement tools have effectively reduced foot traffic at clinics and delivered a large portion of office visits virtually.

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Five Offerings from the Boston Connected Health Conference 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Groove Health: Groove Health is a healthcare data company focused on increasing medication adherence through predictive analytics and patient engagement. We partner with healthcare enterprises to provide value-added analytical insights and targeted outreach programs that increase medication adherence rates in chronically-ill populations.

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Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In January 2020, Geisinger, the Pennsylvania-based integrated health system known for decades of clinical innovation, launched a multi-year digital strategy to make health easier for patients and members in its health plan. As with the rest of the world, the COVID-19 crisis came to Geisinger in a severely disruptive fashion.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

That data can reveal important information that might not make it into the patient’s own record, such as an emergency room visit. So before we go further we should ask: Why should a clinician be responsible for finding a food source or an apartment for a patient? One of my interviewees said that in the U.S.,