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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Boston Medical Center specifically serves a significantly disproportionate number of disadvantaged patients living in the Greater Boston community. " Dr. Laurie Douglass, Boston Medical Center. They also needed to screen for seizures in high-risk populations, as well as improve their transition planning. THE PROBLEM.

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TikTok Reveals Consumers Want Engaging Healthcare Content

HIT Consultant

Dated, static educational pamphlets featuring dense explanations of illnesses and medical procedures just won’t cut it anymore. A quick search will discover that posts tagged with #DoctorsofTikTok have 8 billion views. Complex medical terms can be translated into the patient’s primary language for better understanding.

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Telehealth and community broadband, in sickness and in health

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Much more than mere video chats, telehealth uses intranets and the internet networks to observe, diagnose, initiate or otherwise medically intervene, administer, monitor, record, and/or report on the continuum of care people receive when ill, injured or wanting to stay well. and sending it electronically to another site for later evaluation.

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Study: NYC Black, Latino patients less likely than white patients to use telehealth during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A new study from the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association published this week showed that in New York City during the first few months of the pandemic, Black and Latino patients had lower odds of using telehealth versus other modalities. In areas with broadband availability, telehealth is still not always an option.

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Telehealth and mail-order abortion possible in some states during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But those who needed abortions still had to travel to clinics for care – even when it comes to medication abortions, which consist of taking a few pills. Food and Drug Administration regulations, which require mifepristone, one of the medications used in abortion, to be dispensed at a clinic, hospital or medical office.

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Hint Health Acquires AeroDPC to Offer End-To-End Platform for Direct Primary Care Providers

Healthcare IT Today

The company also welcomes Dr. Brad Brown from AeroDPC as the new Medical Director. Hint Health , the company powering the direct primary care (DPC) movement, today announced the acquisition of AeroDPC, a practice management and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) designed for DPC clinics. increase 241% from 2017 to 2021. About AeroDPC.

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Ten In Ten: Manatt’s Healthcare Priorities to 2031

Health Populi

Addressing mental health is, truly, embodied in every one of the ten pillars in Manatt’s imperatives: Ensuring access to both physical/medical care as well as mental health — ideally bundled into primary care.

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