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COVID-19 and digital transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For instance, a new open-source app from Massachusetts Institute of Technology notifies users if someone they have been in close contact with has tested positive so they can self-isolate. In Europe, the Commission last week published the EU toolbox for the use of mobile apps for contact tracing and warning in response to the pandemic.

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Is healthcare too hard for Big Tech firms?

Healthcare It News

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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Technology brings care to home for chronically ill patients

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Video visits, infrared temperature sensors, mobile health, and wearables replace the need for clinic visits. The technology equivalent of this can be gait recognition sensors using mobile accelerometers. Technology is rapidly changing the bedside examination. Integrating technology to improve access, affordability.

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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Mobile phone apps for mental health management have seen a global surge in popularity under lockdown. According to mobile app marketing intelligence firm Sensor Tower, the world’s top ten English-language mental wellness apps generated two million more downloads in April, when the peak of the pandemic was becoming a reality.

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Health IT implementation best practices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Apps, big data, social, mobile and open APIs foretell disruption that could emerge from inside or outside the traditional health IT space. Innovation is everywhere in healthcare right now.

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Frost & Sullivan's Top 10 predictions for healthcare in 2021

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Digital enterprise vaccination management platforms will have to be built to inform the public, schedule vaccinations, automate mobile facilities, monitor outcomes and manage the supply chain for COVID-19 vaccines. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage.

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Dear Digital Healthcare: Let’s Do Better

HIT Consultant

Lots of people prefer depositing a check from their mobile phone, taking a workout class on an app instead of hitting the gym, and skipping the line at the DMV with online paperwork. Phone tags and missed calls are common. Organizations in every industry had to expand their digital offerings because of the pandemic.