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COVID-19 and digital transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There are various digital solutions being developed and used for this purpose around the world. 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.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than 50% of the expected production capacity of the vaccine candidates, which are in Phase III and are getting emergency approval have been pre-booked by developed economies such as the US, EU, Japan, Canada, and the UK. Remote monitoring tools and mobile health apps and services took center stage. billion in the US alone.

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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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FHIR Adoption and Implementation Challenges

HIT Consultant

An open standard called FHIR, which was initially drafted in 2011, makes it easier than ever for legacy systems and new apps to exchange data. Similar to a URL for a web page, every resource has an own identification tag. – Mobile apps are especially suited to FHIR. Why Adopt FHIR? The U.S.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Connected Health Mobility Patient Engagement Population Health Telehealth How contact tracing, contactless experiences and remote monitoring will redefine healthcare and public health. Digital front door apps are all the rage. However, the apps have failed to take off in the short term. Telehealth is here to stay.

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Geisinger's digital strategy to combat COVID-19 and accelerate enterprise transformation

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Geisinger developed an in-house mobile application aimed to provide guidance to the emergency medical service communities. As a result, we’ve modernized our application programming interface and microservices architecture, developed an enterprise strategy for patient/member data and rationalized our application infrastructure.

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