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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. It has various applications in healthcare, including tracking medical equipment and medicines, monitoring patient movements, and managing medication inventory. FDA’s Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA).

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Beyond telehealth: the virtual care technology trends that will transform healthcare

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The rapid upscaling of virtual care capacity and the mainstreaming of telehealth have given rise to new digital health tools. Data mining tools can identify subsets of populations at risk and enable caregivers to intervene on time. The same guiding principle applies to seamless communication on home-care models.

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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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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

Patients need human expertise, empathy, and guidance when navigating prescriptions to medication, at-home tests, and other remote treatments that affect their health. Perhaps a patient doesn’t understand how to take their medication or administer an at-home test. Non-adherence to medications is a huge issue.

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Drug Price Transparency: Planning for Change

HIT Consultant

These cost increases have a negative effect on patients and overall drug compliance because people tend to avoid taking medications as prescribed when the cost gets too high. This trend is also confirmed by a 2021 GoodRx survey around medication adherence and drug cost, which shows that 18.7% What’s Next for Drug Pricing.

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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The platform uses AI and machine learning that combines sensor data from the wearable with the patient’s medical history to create a unique profile that is updated in real time throughout the monitoring period. The AI continuously runs algorithms on the patient’s profile to predict decompensation.

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FHIR Adoption and Implementation Challenges

HIT Consultant

FHIR was created to not only increase communication efficiency and interoperability compared to earlier standards, but also to facilitate implementation by giving clear specifications and allowing developers to take advantage of popular Web tools. Similar to a URL for a web page, every resource has an own identification tag.

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