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Riding the digital wave through COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The adoption of digital tools was seen across all sectors; it has been particularly accelerated in primary care. In addition, digital solutions enabled strong links to be created between health and research, providing valuable understanding of the impact of coronavirus, including treatment pathways and mortality.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Developing low- and middle-income countries are relying primarily on COVAX, the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, which is co-led by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, and the World Health Organization.

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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. As we shift to online options, it can be tempting for patients to try to do their own research. Phone tags and missed calls are common.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

Healthcare IT Today

For instance, researchers found higher rates of cardiovascular diseases and poor outcomes among people today whose neighborhoods were redlined in the 1930s. Like many SDoH tools, the analysis identifies vulnerable patients and does risk stratification. Our industry has put 100 million Americans in debt and causes 40% of bankruptcies.

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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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A guide to connected health device and remote patient monitoring vendors

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Biofourmis’ remote patient monitoring and AI-based analytics technology, Biovitals, provides personalized predictive care by leveraging active and passive data collected from clinical-grade patient wearables that continuously monitor more than 20 physiological parameters, as well as patient-captured data from a mobile app.

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