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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

VA was an early adopter of digital health tools and remains a leader within US health care in leveraging technology to enhance patient engagement. million veterans interacting with the site, including their personal health data, every month. But not to the exclusion of in-person care, which will always be necessary.

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8 benefits of Telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For example, in Germany, digital health application access is regulated by the digital healthcare act (DVG: Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz) from 2019, making it easier also for patients to cover benefits from digital health, since insurances are required to pay for applications with certain specifications. Reay at al.

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Four tech and aging blog posts from September 2019

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Since the initial correlation between loneliness, social isolation and poor health outcomes, new reports have emerged to try and understand why people are lonely and what can be done to mitigate it. category tags: mHealth-Digital Health-Telehealth-Voice Health , Technology - AARP. Read more. .

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Six Health and Aging Technology Blog Posts from October 2018

Aging in Place Technology Watch

From a technology perspective, what is each players doing to help us use our voice to have a better health and patient engagement experience ? In 2010, this association was renamed LeadingAge – from the Association of Homes and Services for the Aging – a mouthful, shortened to AAHSA. Read more here. From AAHSA to LeadingAge.

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The Gamification of Healthcare : Emergence of the Digital Practitioner?

Lloyd Price

A systematic literature review by Sardi et al found that gamification began to attract researchers in the e-health realm in the second half of 2010. (6) Gamification for mHealth: a review of playful mobile healthcare. Stud Health Technol Inform. A systematic review of gamification in e-health. JAMA Intern Med.

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A Mid-Year Update on 2023 Healthcare Trends

Henry Kotula

Alternate Payment Models: Alternate payment models (APMs) in healthcare have been expanding especially since enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010. As noted by the publication Pitchbook and CB Insights , venture capital funding in the digital health space totaled $7.5