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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Since its inception in June of 2008, more than 86 million VA Secure Messages have been initiated by VA patients or their care teams. More and more is happening virtually (secure messaging, telephone, chat, video, mHealth apps, and more) and I think this trend will only continue. In FY19, there were more than 20.6

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Predictive analytics and other AI may however be relevant to patient safety by gathering data from the patient’s EHR (and heaven help us one day from data sets of other systems) to predict both minor and major preventable adverse events. Improving the electronic medical record (EHR).

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HIMSS14: Patiently Waiting for Progress

Chilmark Research

EHRs Look Inward. EHR vendors are at last developing moderate to advanced functionality with their portals (refills, secure communication, education, scheduling), with improved UX/UI that is starting to conform to consumer tech standards. HIEs Look Backward.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). mHealth Insights. Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link].