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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. Infrastructure to manage chronic diseases remotely. These diseases impact at least half of the adult population globally and account for over 80% healthcare costs.

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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.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Any abnormal responses or vital stats are tagged and reported to: a healthcare organization partnering with the employer, a clinician on the employer’s staff, or a human resources professional, for a referral to a COVID-19 testing site to confirm an infection and prevent spreading the virus in the workplace.