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RFID in Healthcare: Navigating Security & Privacy Regulations

Healthcare IT Today

RFID technology involves using tags and readers to wirelessly identify and track objects. Addressing Security and Privacy Concerns with RFID Regarding security and privacy concerns, one primary consideration is the information stored on RFID tags. As RFID expands rapidly, it can trigger security and privacy concerns.

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Patient experience: new perspectives on person-focused care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Providers are embracing new technologies and digital tools to enable greater insights into what their customers want and need – and tailoring their efforts in response to patient feedback. Region Tag: Global Edition Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Patient Engagement Mere "patient engagement" isn't enough anymore.

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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

Digital transformation has increased healthcare access, but quality and consistency are lagging behind. The healthcare industry has gone digital faster than anyone could’ve expected. Digital health options like telemedicine and online pharmacies existed before the pandemic. We weren’t prepared. But can you blame us?

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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare

HIT Consultant

Vik Krishnan, General Manager of Intrado Digital Workflows. That’s because the capabilities patients value most—including appointment scheduling, prescription refill requests, and bill payments—aren’t always convenient (i.e., digital) or easy to self-manage. Routine, preventive care is one example of this concept in action.

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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

While nothing can beat an in-person experience, physicians can check in on them digitally, through remote patient monitoring tools or video consults. Such groupings help provide valuable information for sending alerts, reminders, and prescription refills to patients suffering from chronic diseases.

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When Buying a Pair of Jeans Competes With Filling a Prescription at CVS in Target

Health Populi

Sensory-friendly shirts will have flat seams, softer material and no tags.” As most women manage their households, health care marketers should never forget that, increasingly, as patients become payors, a prescription drug fill at the CVS pharmacy in Target may compete on the day with a great pair of Universal Thread jeans.

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The Evolution of Self-Care for Consumers – Learning and Sharing at CHPA

Health Populi

For the organization’s 2020 vision, there are three category pillars in sight: over-the-counter (OTC) drugs (the core mission for over a century), dietary supplements, and consumer medical devices (think: the CES digital health aisles, and beyond). billion in medical visits and reduce reliance on prescription drugs by a $51.6