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New COVID-19 reporting requirements causing 'chaos'; contact tracing app has privacy issues

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Primary topic: Government & Policy Disable Auto Tagging: Short Headline: COVID-19 reporting requirements causing 'chaos'; contact tracing app has privacy issues Featured Decision Content: Region Tag: Global Edition Right Now:

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Steering healthcare's digital evolution: Marrying technology with the human element

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The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the crucial role of technology in healthcare, from the surge in telehealth to the use of devices like tablets for patient communication. The development of a patient-assistance app during this crisis exemplifies technology’s potential in offering practical solutions.

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COVID-19 and digital transformation

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Despite the significant pressures on services across the NHS associated with our COVID-19 response, and indeed because of them, there has been a significant acceleration of digital transformation across many areas of health in the UK. Looking beyond COVID-19.

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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

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Government & Policy Patient Engagement Pharmacy Privacy & Security Telehealth COVID-19, otherwise known as coronavirus, has entered the lexicon as if it was always there. Sam Shah COVID-19 has been deadly, it’s infective and has posed the biggest public health risk to society in almost a hundred years.

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

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The recent COVID-19 pandemic has provided a natural testbed for identifying novel ways that digital tools and technologies, geared toward patients and caregivers, can support patient-centered care. COVID-19 remote monitoring apps that collect and use patient-reported data (e.g., Region Tag: Global Edition.

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A booming digital health market, and an elusive trifecta

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While COVID-19 has accelerated the shift towards digital health, it has also given rise to a surge in workloads for CIOs and Chief Digital Officers. Despite the integration with patient data in EHR systems, the apps operate as stand-alone solutions. Region Tag: Global Edition. He is the founder and CEO of Damo Consulting.

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

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By the end of 2021, about 4 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses will be delivered globally. Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines.