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What to expect in Asia-Pacific health IT in 2025?

Healthcare It News

We are also seeing more general practices using the Inca shared health record and care planning tool that connects patients and their care team, as well as GoShare technology for digital literacy, patient literacy, and enrolment into continuous quality improvement initiatives.

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Ping An launches AI avatars of top Chinese doctors

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The chatbot currently covers general practice and will be later expanded to gynecology, internal medicine, pediatrics, surgery, andrology, traditional Chinese medicine, dermatology, and general medicine. It also offers simplified interpretation of medical reports and laboratory results and personalised medication reminders.

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UK aims to offer patients genetics-based medication counseling

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Videha Sharma, clinical innovation lead at the University of Manchester, explains the NHS’s plan to expand pharmacogenetics, or how people’s genetic codes influence the effects of drugs, beyond specialist care to general practice.

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Telehealth has grown by leaps at doc practices, with wide variance in usage patterns

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According to a new AMA Policy Research Perspectives report videoconferencing is a favored means of patient consults for significant numbers of dermatology practices (87.3%), urologists (87.2%), pediatricians (82.9%) and cardiologists (82%). These differing specialties are also using telehealth in different ways.

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Verizon Business and Visionable team up to empower next generation healthcare with 5G

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These environments will showcase the end-to-end care pathway from smart ambulances, control centres, hospital wards, General Practices (GPs) consultation rooms to care homes. WHY IT MATTERS.

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Four actions to prepare for Integrated Neighbourhood Teams

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What should PCNs and general practice be doing now to prepare for this change? While it is important to build relationships within an Integrated Care System (ICS), the starting point for general practice and PCNs is to consider who will build these relationships and how they will do it. Here are four actions to consider.

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Financial incentives and prescribing behavior in primary care

Healthcare ECONOMIST

Overview of general practitioners in the UK Under the English National Health Service (NHS) program, …patients register with a single general practice that acts as the gatekeeper to most other NHS services, including non-emergency hospital care.