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Groups doubles down on telehealth with a mobile app to treat opioid addiction

Healthcare It News

Like many healthcare provider organizations, Groups, a value-based care provider of opioid addiction treatment, had to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic overnight. There are many vendors of telemedicine technology and services on the health IT market today. THE PROBLEM. MARKETPLACE.

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Crisis in the U.S. Healthcare Workforce: Why It’s Time to introduce AI

HIT Consultant

Triage, in this manner, could ensure that only patients in immediate or near-immediate need of treatment are under the direct care of a healthcare provider (HCP). Telestroke is a remote system of providing expert patient assessment and managing patient care with regards to stroke. Telemed J E Health 2017; 23: 376–389.

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Wearables Are Good For Older People, Too — The Latest From Laurie Orlov

Health Populi

For older people who are digital immigrants, they will remember their initial Zoom get-together’s with much-missed family, ordering groceries online in the first ecommerce purchase, and using telemedicine for the first time as a digital health front-door.

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Modern Healthcare Delivery – The Difference Between Digital Therapeutics and Telehealth

GoMoHealth

As providers and their patients prioritize the use of these digital tools in our COVID-19 distanced environment, it’s important to be aware of what these terms mean and how they relate to one another. Digital therapeutics are treatments that utilize digital health technologies to encourage changes in patient behavior to improve outcomes.

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Roundups: 16 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

HIT Consultant

The Strategic Collaboration for Innovation in Medical Imaging and Theranostics comprises Mayo Clinic and GE HealthCare scientists, technology developers, clinicians and other healthcare providers. FIGS, Inc. ,

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Expectations For The Connected Care Business In The Years Ahead

HIT Consultant

Deployed in over 30 countries and 8,000 clinical locations, Glooko’s mission is to improve the lives of people with chronic conditions by connecting them with their caregivers and equipping both with digital health technology for improved outcomes.

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The Digital Health Consumer According to Rock Health

Health Populi

adults were online health information hunters. Six in 10 Americans looked for reviews of healthcare providers online, another new-normal consumer digital health activity. But only one in four people had used wearable technology for health, and one in five had participated in a live video telemedicine encounter.