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Physician adoption of digital health tools is accelerating, AMA research shows

Healthcare It News

Doctors across specialties adopting RPM tools. The purpose of the survey, which measured across all ages and specialties, according to AMA, was to investigate physicians' motivations and requirements for onboarding digital health technologies and integrating them into their medical practices. in 2016 to 3.8

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mPharma & TytoCare Integrate to Offer Telehealth to Pharmacies in Africa

HIT Consultant

What You Should Know: – TytoCare , an all-in-one modular device and examination solution for AI-powered , on-demand, remote medical exams partners with mPharma , a technology-driven healthcare company building Africa’s largest health management organization with a focus on making medications affordable and accessible to every African.

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CVS Health to purchase Signify Health for $8B

Healthcare It News

"As we carefully considered our long-term strategic options, we determined that CVS Health is the ideal partner, given its focus on expanding access to health services and helping consumers navigate to the best sites of care," said Kyle Armbrester, CEO of Signify Health, in the announcement.

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Advocate Aurora Enterprises scoops up MobileHelp for RPM, personal emergency response

Healthcare It News

Advocate Aurora is building out its portfolio of technologies and services for its aging patients, including home health and hospice care. That will allow its providers to create customized RPM plans for personalized care at home – boosting care coordination and helping manage chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension.

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

Healthcare It News

Today there's a huge push to integrate social determinants of health data into these larger datasets, but we remain in a situation where that data is either not collected or too general to be useful. Each locale collects patient data, but the data sets don't talk to each other. Twitter: @SiwickiHealthIT.

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

In the future, we will agree that in 2018 the lights turned on for remote care – things changed and remote care became the standard of care.”. This has been a twenty-year process, and today over ten million patients are served by healthcare IoT tools, and this number is now growing at an annual rate of 40-50%.

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Dave Ryan, Intel GM for IoT in Healthcare and the Future of Remote Care – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

In the future, we will agree that in 2018 the lights turned on for remote care – things changed and remote care became the standard of care.”. Health Care Law and Consulting. And when I asked him how the world will be different in five years he responded: “Mark 2018 on your calendar. The Harlow Group LLC.