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Digitalization in healthcare empowers patients

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In today’s digitalized healthcare environment, keeping the best outcomes for patients at the center of all activity increasingly depends on the smart use of medical data. A digital platform that assembles and structures a wide variety of data in a user-friendly format has the potential to remedy this situation.

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EMR implementation as a 'science'

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" He said the time a pharmacist spends following up with doctors about their prescriptions should also be accounted for. Systems automation, which sees growing adoption across health facilities, can also help save time completing an EMR, Dr Appannan added. "Patients [are] the mediators of health information exchange."

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What will be the impact of COVID-19 on the next wave of health IT innovation?

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And second, so much of what influences health takes place outside of healthcare settings, where patients live, work and play. Today there's a huge push to integrate social determinants of health data into these larger datasets, but we remain in a situation where that data is either not collected or too general to be useful.

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Adelaide virtual care project gets state backing

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million (around $700,000) in funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council. HOW IT WORKS The project will provide patients with chronic conditions, especially those living in low-income communities, with access to daily/regular integrated primary care services through virtual care and telemonitoring.

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Alexandra Hospital leverages cloud-based service to help patients avoid preventable chronic disease

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It generates a dynamic wellness score by collecting and analysing health metrics such as steps, exercise, sleep patterns, heart rate, heart rate variability, skin temperature variation, breathing rate, and oxygen saturation, along with blood pressure and blood glucose data collected from third-party devices. THE LARGER TREND.

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Advancing Health Equity by Addressing The Health Data Desert

HIT Consultant

Doctors have no access to data about the social determinants of health, hampering their ability to tailor care to patients. With incomplete data, certain populations are overlooked during the development of new drugs. It’s not a stretch to say that your phone knows more about many of these key factors than your doctor.

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5 Factors to Consider When Developing a Health Data Platform

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For example, it could give them greater control over their data security and architecture or they feel they know their data best and can better manage it internally. Whatever the reason, if a startup is looking to develop its own health data platform, there are five factors they must always consider. Interoperability.