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Only 1 in 4 People Over 50 Use a Mobile Health App – And They Tend to Be Healthier and Wealthier

Health Populi

Among seven mhealth tools, the most commonly-used is to track exercise. The pandemic accelerated many seniors’ use of technology — from adopting video-conferencing to socialize with family and friends to using virtual care and digital health at home when faced with risk-managing exposure to the coronavirus.

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RCGP publish Roger Neighbour’s ten tips for successful Video Consultations

mHealth Insight

“Many GPs and most Patients will have little previous experience of consulting remotely by video link or smartphone. mHealth Insights.

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mHealth Guide to HIMSS19

mHealth Insight

Next week (11-15 February 2019) in Orlando (USA) 45,000 delegates will attend the world’s biggest Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition and we’ll be there for meetings and to learn about and share mHealth innovations with readers of the mHealth Insight blog. Cardinal Analytx (USA/Booth 888-33). and in Europe.

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Telehealth, HIPAA compliance and innovation tracking

Aging in Place Technology Watch

who communicate with patients via Apple FaceTime, Facebook Messenger video chat, Google Hangouts video or Skype, but now they will temporarily suspend that process. category tags: mHealth-Telehealth-Voice Health , Boomer-Senior Tech Business , healthcare. Did you know that they penalized providers (really?)

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A New Era of Virtual Care Has Begun, Accenture Finds

Health Populi

About 1 in 2 patients now receive treatment at home instead of going to a provider’s office, using virtual tools like video conference calls (“Zoom-ing” for medical care), online chat, and mobile health apps downloaded on smartphones.

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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

million telehealth episodes of care, such as a video appointment or a store and forward telehealth exchange, to more than 900,000 veterans. For example, more than 490,000 veterans utilized VA’s video telehealth capabilities last year, and 50 percent of those veterans lived in rural communities. In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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Dr. Roboto? Stanford Medicine Foresees Digital Doctors “Maturing”

Health Populi

50% of consumers said they’d welcome the ability to consult with a doctor via phone or video call, 48% liked the ability to communicate electronically via test or social media with the doctor, and 43% favored a wearable device to connect with their smartphone to monitor health.