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UConn Health squares away CMS audit trail and more with digital health platform

Healthcare It News

"Particularly for patients in rural areas, the digital care management approach is a proven conduit for improving access," he continued. "For example, it eliminates the time, expense and stress patients experience traveling to attend their pre-surgery class and in-person follow-up visits for joint replacement surgery."

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Physicians More Bullish On the Benefits of Digital Tools for Patient Care, the AMA Tells Us

Health Populi

While the adoption of digital tools has grown since 2019, tele-visits increased the most in adoption compared with other technologies in the study such as remote monitoring, patient engagement, and clinician decision support. Thus, there has been a significant shift in the importance of remote care.

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CIOs' 5-year plans for precision medicine and emerging technologies

Healthcare It News

One of the next big shifts in patient care will be precision medicine will be "an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account individual variability in genes, environment and lifestyle for each person," as the Precision Medicine Initiative describes it. A lot of new challenges.

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How RTM is a potential game-changer for improving outcomes

Healthcare It News

As an enabling technology, RTM has been proven effective for improving patient engagement, satisfaction, care quality and outcomes, as well as reducing costs for both patients and providers. Digital care management technology makes patient education, physical therapy, communication, etc.,

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9 Major Patient Engagement Trends to Embrace in 2022

Health Care Success

While many businesses long for a return to pre-COVID normal, savvy healthcare organizations and health systems embrace virtual and digital services that champion a patient engagement future that exceeds expectations in our new reality. Success with “patient experience” is far deeper than just making patients happy.

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5G’s Role in Improving Quality and Reach of Healthcare

HIT Consultant

This helps staff save time from manual checks, which can be an asset in mitigating overworked staff and preventing burnout. If these devices are running on a 5G network, there would be minimal interruption in the communication between patient devices and the doctors who need to evaluate the patient’s condition.

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Urgency-driven innovation in healthcare

Healthcare It News

It was that digital alternatives were being adopted as viable solutions to meet increasing care demands. The classic example is the explosion in telemedicine, which was advanced by the need for remote care during lockdown. Physician acceptance of virtual and digital health mirrors the patient experience.