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New AMA blueprint seeks to tap the full potential of digital health

Healthcare It News

The American Medical Association's had offered a blueprint as a call to action to address the divide between the unprecedented levels of digital health funding, partnerships, mergers and acquisitions – and their underwhelming impact, thus far, on healthcare quality improvement. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Delivering Patient-Centered Care Means Decluttering the Digital Health Landscape

HIT Consultant

To effectively achieve this, a digital solution must improve the quality of care in an end-to-end fashion across all phases of care: prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and care management. This comprehensive approach is necessary, since improving healthcare quality at every phase drives better outcomes and downstream savings.

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Newsletter, February 2024

Patient Safety Movement

This brings up the concept of wearable digital health technologies for monitoring. In fact, people taking prescribed opioids should have naloxone available. The question is, how is someone who has stopped breathing able to administer naloxone to themselves?