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The Smartphone Is the Consumer’s Personal Health Platform – Implications from Deloitte’s 2018 Survey

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Furthermore, voice technologies are “making noise,” according to Deloitte in A New Era in Mobile Continues, the 2018 Global Mobile Consumer Survey : US Edition. I’ve mined the US data of this global survey to divine insights for health/care. In 2018, one in five U.S. which 1 in 2 U.S. adults over 55 manage. [I

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The Digital Transformation of Patients – Update from Rock Health and Stanford

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But another patient side-effect of COVID-19 has been the digital transformation of many patients , documented by data gathered by Rock Health and Stanford Center for Digital Health and analyzed in their latest report explaining how the public health crisis accelerated digital health “beyond its years,” noted in the title of the report.

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Psychiatrists 'pleasantly surprised' with transition to telemedicine

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Department of Health and Human Services indicated that it would waive penalties for good faith use of non-HIPAA compliant video conferencing software during the nationwide public health emergency." Telehealth has also allowed behavioral health providers to connect with patients in underserved areas.

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Isn’t It Eyeconic? Vision Care in the Evolving Health Care Ecosystem

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Over one-half of 213 retail chains listed in Internet Retailers top 1000 offered “buy online, pick up in store” fulfillment in 2018. Walmart, in particular, had a huge uptick in this during the 2018 holiday shopping season.

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Asynchronous video telemedicine helps TB patients, saves costs in Guam

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services has to cope with a very serious tuberculosis problem. To help overcome the challenges it faced with directly observed therapy, the Guam Department of Public Health and Social Services turned to a healthcare technology from emocha Mobile Health. THE PROBLEM.

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Magellan Health uses smartphone-based AI tech to help Hep C patients

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While the numbers are widely variable, a 2018 analysis showed that costs attributed to “all causes” non-adherence ranged from $5200-$52,000 per person, said Dr. Caroline Carney, chief medical officer at Magellan Health Rx management.

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UPMC uses RPM to study postpartum hypertension among Black and white women

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" Since the program's inception in January 2018, UPMC has enrolled more than 3,000 women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy into the postpartum remote hypertension monitoring program who have contributed more than 40,000 blood pressure measurements in the first six weeks postpartum. versus 51.4%; p<0.001). ADVICE FOR OTHERS.

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