Category: apps
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How mHealth ubiquity will ‘transform’ the care industry
Mobile tools can play a critical role in keeping healthcare costs down, improving patient care, boosting communication between physicians and patients and fostering self-care management, according to Nirav Desai, principal healthcare strategist at Mobiquity. read more …read more
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Telehealth Makes Gains Out West
Healthcare provider leaders in California and Colorado are making impressive gains in leveraging telehealth capabilities to extend their medical specialty care delivery to far-flung populations At the American Telemedicine Association’s annual meeting in Baltimore in May, the buzz was about health systems increasingly incorporating virtual visits into their operations and how mobile technologies could play…
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Telemedicine support program helps tame out-of-control blood pressure
Telemedicine helped patients with uncontrolled hypertension improve their blood pressure readings, according to Italian research reported in BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. read more …read more
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HIMSS Europe and Wolters Kluwer Health to present webinar on improving care processes with mHealth
The webinar will be held on 25 June from 3-4pm CET …read more
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Telehealth gets big boost from AMA
The nation’s largest physicians’ association has officially put its foot forward with telemedicine, after establishing guiding principles to ensure appropriate coverage and reimbursement for telemedicine services. read more …read more
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AMA telemedicine policy emphasizes in-state licensure, in-person visits
Patient safety and care quality is a primary focus of a telemedicine policy adopted by the American Medical Association this week. It errs on the side of caution in its recommendations, calling for in-person consults in some cases, for example. read more …read more
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Telehealth provides support to rural consultants on forensic examinations for sexual abuse
Telehealth support for rural consultants is shown to improve the quality of forensic exams for sexual abuse, according to a study published in Child Abuse & Neglect. read more …read more
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mHealth Summit to host Global mHealth Forum
The mHealth Summit announced today that it will host the Global mHealth Forum, a two-day co-located event, to focus on mobile and connected health in low and middle income countries (LMICs). …read more
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ATA, Others Lobby Burwell for Eased Telemedicine Restrictions
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and a number of healthcare IT organizations have sent a letter to new HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell, asking for her waive the regulatory restrictions on the use of telemedicine. The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) and a number of healthcare IT organizations have sent a letter to new HHS Secretary…
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Groups urge feds to reimburse ACOs for telehealth
Saying they want to improve care coordination, several organizations are calling on the federal government to reimburse accountable care organizations for the use of telehealth and remote patient monitoring technologies. read more …read more