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

Healthcare It News

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. Data security and global trends in health IT Data security remains a significant challenge in the digital age.

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Remote patient monitoring and virtual care – a paradigm shift

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Whatever the approach, size, shape of the initiative – whether it's video-based telehealth, more device-intensive remote patient monitoring or rigorously structured acute care-at-home initiatives – all of these efforts have enormous promise, but not-insubstantial challenges.

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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The pandemic has only accelerated this process and the need to innovate better infrastructure and device investments. Technology components that can help better organize chronic care management remotely include: Devices and Sensors: Medical devices and sensors help a physician measure the vitals and other patient parameters.

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Hospital at Home: Prospects and Challenges, and Learnings from Best Buy Health

Health Populi

Privacy and scalability, where assuring the security of health citizens’ protected health information (PHI) must be designed into HaH programs. Varda Shalev of Team8 discussed prospects for Care At Home Transformed tag-teaming with Deborah Di Sanzo, President of Best Buy Health. In a webinar broadcast on 28 February, Prof.

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A stairway to a new chapter in healthcare

Healthcare It News

'Break the silos' has been a tag line in data management for a long time, and COVID-19 showed it needs to become reality. Data needs to be available, interchangeable, protected, secured, and managed wherever it is stored. The requirements of storage and data management are changing. More than just storage.

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Top Security Certifications Required for Data Protection

HIT Consultant

Paul Banco, CEO of etherFAX    How secure is your data? If your organization does not have the right security certifications in place, it’s not a matter of if a data breach will occur – but when. Today, the cost of a data breach comes with a hefty price tag – an average of $9.44 million in the U.S. million per data breach.

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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. And the data generated through our phones and smartwatches and wearable devices and smart gym equipment has everything to do with our health and wellbeing when combined with other data.

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