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Apps and Devices That Impact Your Health and Well-Being

Electronic Health Reporter

This content is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Technology is constantly evolving and changing the way we do things in all areas in your life, including in healthcare. Technology in health care […]. Technology in health care […].

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Symposium Introduction: Addressing Technoableism: Reforming Infrastructure and Disability Representation

Bill of Health

Often when devices are painted as “solving the problem of disability” or “empowering disabled people,” they suggest that being disabled is itself a problem, and that people should try to be as nondisabled as possible. Not every disabled person has an end-goal of being nondisabled, or even being less disabled.

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Unlocking Healthcare’s Mobile Future: HIPAA-Compliant BYOD

Healthcare IT Today

No doubt it’s the biggest risk to a healthcare organization and the attackers only need a slight opening in your security defenses to wreak havoc. Here’s our summary of the session with some additional commentary and be sure to check out this summary of the healthcare BYOD session too. Plus, healthcare has up to $1.5

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What facilitated telehealth can do to improve care for high-need groups

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association finds significant association between the use of telehealth services and improved healthcare access and outcomes in communities negatively impacted by health disparities. and higher burden of chronic disease?

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ThedaCare health system sees huge patient adoption of new digital front door

Healthcare It News

ThedaCare is a seven-hospital health system in Wisconsin with 180 locations and 7,000 employees. To succeed in its mission, ThedaCare is on a path to population health – aiming to go above and beyond treating a particular condition to make care easy and accessible to help achieve better health for life. THE PROBLEM.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare It News

Connected Health Government & Policy Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth The fate of virtual care adoption is tied to the fate of broadband expansion. Some folks believe telehealth applications take up very little space on patients' computers, so how can broadband be an Achilles' heel?

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Concerning Health IT Trends: What Can We Do and What Happens if We Do Nothing?

Healthcare IT Today

There are so many exciting new ideas and technologies being implemented in the field of healthcare. For the most part, these changes can be the very necessary answer to a problem we’ve been facing for a long time. But sometimes, these changes can be concerning. What health IT trend has you concerned?