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LifeMD Integrates with Withings: GLP-1 Weight Loss with In-Home Monitoring

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– With these devices, LifeMD is setting a new standard in virtual care by providing clinicians with near real-time and actionable patient data that can drive compliance, enhance clinical decision-making, encourage preventive healthcare, and, most importantly, improve long-term outcomes. . What You Should Know: – LifeMD, Inc.®

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Tech can help address the behavioral health crisis, says AMA

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"All stakeholders have a critical role to play in making accessible and equitable treatment that addresses peoples’ behavioral and physical health needs a more standard practice within primary care," read the report. This past September, Array Behavioral Care Founder and Chief Medical Officer Dr. James R.

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Why a Focus on Behavioral Health is Key to Improving Quality Measures

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In this study, researchers evaluated the Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) program in Rhode Island for its effect on health care use and costs. IBH was implemented across 11 primary care practices in the state under the Care Transformation Collaborative of Rhode Island in 2016.

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

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The study title citing the “data-driven physician” is based on the key survey finding that doctors are preparing to embrace data, from both traditional sources and new ones — including information generated by patients themselves via wearable tech and remote health sensors — into clinical practice.

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Roundups: 16 Recent Strategic Digital Health Partnerships

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Walgreens and Pearl Health , a provider enablement company has announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the expansion of value-based care in collaboration with community-based primary care physicians. FIGS, Inc. ,

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“My Doctor’s Office” Should Accept Wearable Tech Health Data, Most Patients Say

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Note that the patient sample was limited to consumers who had seen a health care provider in the past two years and who also owned and used a personal wearable health device such as an Apple Watch or Fitbit.

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Disruption Is Healthcare’s New Normal

Health Populi

They said that the technologies that would have the largest disruptive impact would be telemedicine, artificial intelligence, interoperability, and data analytics. Making those connections via telehealth and virtual health technology, from a pure technical standpoint, is do-able today.