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How Young People Are Using Digital Tools to Help Deal with Mental Health

Health Populi

For most young people, the public health crisis has been more about that social distancing from friends, a collective sense of isolation, and mental and behavioral health impacts. sought health information online in 2020, a slight decline from 2018. Some 8 in 10 younger people in the U.S.

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Health Privacy and Our Ambivalent Tech-Embrace – Lessons for Digital Health Innovators

Health Populi

At the same time, 2 in 3 people were also concerned aobut the privacy of their health information on apps. And there’s the ambivalence of “concerned embrace” of digital health. This isn’t a universal belief among all health citizens, but a majority still embracing science for medicine].

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The Future of Healthcare: Telehealth. Here’s Why You Need to Consider Telemedicine in 2019

Continue Education Journal

Telemedicine, however, is more specific and refers to the use of electronic services allowing doctors to communicate with other doctors and give consultations to patients without an office visit. The benefits of telehealth continues to grow, according to the WHO.

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The Digital Home: A Platform for Health, via Deloitte and the COVID-19 “Stress Test”

Health Populi

Among the least likely barriers were unqualified clinicians (compared with a “live” in-person doctor), the doctor’s inability to share health information with the patient, difficulty in booking an appointment, distractions from other online activities, and privacy issues. Deloitte found that U.S.

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7 Telehealth Terms You Need to Know

BHM Healthcare Solutions

According to the HRSA , telehealth “is the use of electronic information and telecommunications technologies to support long-distance clinical health care , patient and professional health-related education, public health and health administration.”. Telemedicine. Store-and-forward (asynchronous).

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The ROI of DICOM: A Candy Striper's Story

Christina's Considerations

I'm teaching this week - health informatics to nurses, public health and health administration students. Last week we discussed standards and interoperability; and it reminded me of a story. The memory was triggered by student discussions. One said it must.

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Digital Health Academic Journals

Digital Health Hub

OA JMIR Publications Inc. Canada G6 Computers in Biology and Medicine 6.698 Standard/OA Elsevier Ltd UK G7 JMIR mHealth and uHealth 4.95 OA JMIR Publications Inc. Standard/OA Springer New York USA G9 Digital Health 4.687 OA SAGE Publications Inc. UK POPULATION HEALTH P1 JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 14.56