Healthcare It News

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

COVID-19 remote monitoring apps that collect and use patient-reported data (e.g., Ensuring that health apps and other PC CDS tools meet certain safety and quality criteria will also increase patient and provider confidence in the reliability and validity of these tools, particularly when the apps involve decision-making support.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JANUARY 4, 2021

More than 50% of the expected production capacity of the vaccine candidates, which are in Phase III and are getting emergency approval have been pre-booked by developed economies such as the US, EU, Japan, Canada, and the UK. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage. billion in the US alone.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

AUGUST 24, 2020

Mobile phone apps for mental health management have seen a global surge in popularity under lockdown. According to mobile app marketing intelligence firm Sensor Tower, the world’s top ten English-language mental wellness apps generated two million more downloads in April, when the peak of the pandemic was becoming a reality.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 14, 2020

Geisinger developed an in-house mobile application aimed to provide guidance to the emergency medical service communities. As social distancing measures prevailed as a primary way to reduce the spread of COVID-19, visitation policies across the hospital changed rapidly in response to (nearly daily) updates in guidelines.

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HIT Consultant

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

An open standard called FHIR, which was initially drafted in 2011, makes it easier than ever for legacy systems and new apps to exchange data. Similar to a URL for a web page, every resource has an own identification tag. – Mobile apps are especially suited to FHIR. Why Adopt FHIR?

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Healthcare Law Today

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Nate, I think that this is another area where you see innovation coming out of COVID-19, So not just in prescription, as Mark was talking about, but also subscriptions to, there’s now all these new mental health apps and other types of direct-to-consumer subscription services that are coming in, applications, other types of subscriptions.

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