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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

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Another article in the same week in Business Insider revealed that Apple acknowledged it is " scaling back " a key project, an app called Health Habit. The app allows Apple employees to log fitness goals, manage hypertension, and talk to clinicians and coaches at AC Wellness, the doctors' group that Apple works with.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

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It could be especially valuable for patients with long-standing medical issues who don't have a primary care doctor, or are uninsured. You cannot give people a computer, the internet and telehealth apps and expect success unless they have a digital literacy skills! Region Tag: Global Edition.

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Full coverage: HIMSS23 APAC Health Conference

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September 05, 2023 News Indonesia officially requires its healthcare facilities to implement EMRs The country enacted a Health Minister regulation on medical records in late August. Region Tag: ASIA Hide Collection: 0 Primary topic: Analytics Node settings: Exclude from Accelerate RSS feed

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Grand challenges and opportunities for patient-centered CDS

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In this Viewpoint we encapsulate the challenges and opportunities facing patient-centered CDS, or PC CDS, by highlighting key findings from the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association: Challenges and Opportunities for Advancing Patient-Centered Clinical Decision Support: Findings from a Horizon Scan. [1].

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COVID-19: a technologist’s tale

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The other aspect of medication that COVID-19 soon outed was prescribing. Apps, apps and more apps. The NHS has a troubled history with apps with local and national teams often competing to build in-house products, and thereby competing with industry.

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Boston Medical Center boosts care for epileptic kids with telehealth-analytics platform

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Boston Medical Center specifically serves a significantly disproportionate number of disadvantaged patients living in the Greater Boston community. They live in a virtual world, so this app and the ability to access their care team through text messages [are] much more comfortable. " Dr. Laurie Douglass, Boston Medical Center.

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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NHS Digital increased the capacity and range of NHS 111 (the 24/7 telephone and online service for people who need advice and information about urgent medical problems), and NHSX (which focuses on the digital transformation of health and social care) launched a competition for remote monitoring technology.

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