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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. Technology components that can help better organize chronic care management remotely include: Devices and Sensors: Medical devices and sensors help a physician measure the vitals and other patient parameters.

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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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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

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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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?

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How communities can better prepare for post-emergency telehealth deployments

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

More than video conducts with doctors, it’s using Internet and intranet technologies to facilitate many medical activities associated with healthcare and wellness of the body and mind. Telehealth is either real-time appointments, some variation of store and forward data exchange, or digitized medical knowledge.