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Risky Business of Health Trackers: What Digital Health Leaders Need to Know

HIT Consultant

Having early insight into abnormal blood sugar activity or body functioning can help individuals prevent health conditions from worsening. It can be dangerous to rely too much on comparisons, preventing companies from having a holistic view of their individual needs. Kansas is another state with stringent requirements.

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Reproductive Health Technologies: From Design Feature to Defect

Bill Of Health

The immediate impact of modern reproductive technologies, such as telemedicine, period tracking apps, and medication abortion, is to broaden access to this right for marginalized groups. The post Reproductive Health Technologies: From Design Feature to Defect appeared first on Bill of Health.

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Big Tech + Digital Health: Even Big-Ticket Mistakes Won’t Dissuade Companies From Healthcare

Health Populi

“Big Tech has the capability to disrupt healthcare, though the complexity of healthcare ecosystems is not making it easy for these companies,” according to Big Tech & Digital Health , a detailed update from HealthXL published last week. Both women are now closely looking at data privacy and private sector-power.

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The next investment priorities for telehealth, RPM and connected health

Healthcare It News

When it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic and health IT, if there's just one thing that everyone can agree on, it's that telehealth has gone mainstream. Thanks to new regulations from the government and subsequent new rules from commercial payers, telemedicine services are being reimbursed. Moore is all for telemedicine.

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2023 may bring progress in SDOH tech, telehealth and interoperability

Healthcare It News

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the important role that community-based organizations play in helping people stay healthy, and emphasized how much work we have to do in achieving health equity in the U.S. Q: The role of telemedicine is shifting. What are your predictions here for 2023?

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Health Consumers Value Sharing and Downloading Health Data, But Privacy Concerns Remain

Health Populi

The “concerned” aspect of the tech-embrace in health care means consumers are also keen to have privacy data protections and procedures in place to prevent their PHI from traveling outside of trusted health care circles. Health Populi’s Hot Points: Earlier this year, Accenture found that U.S.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

As the OMRON VitalSight, described above, demonstrates, more consumer-facing digital health technologies are bridging patients and doctors, and patients and hospitals. As we’ve been so focused on digital health tech, it’s timely to note that Google recently completed its purchase of Fitbit for $2.1