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

Healthcare It News

It has increasingly become evident that digitalisation – from nationwide networks down to individual hospitals – has become the rule in a post-pandemic world. Meanwhile, government hospitals in Thailand have [started installing] telemedicine kiosks to [provide more] healthcare coverage.

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Ping An launches AI avatars of top Chinese doctors

Healthcare It News

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

Healthcare It News

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. The service harnesses the adaptability of mobile devices to allow doctors and hospitals to provide more virtual visits and consultations.

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

Healthcare It News

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. ON THE RECORD.

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Managing changes in primary care as an ICB

Health Care Leader News

The current pressures on the NHS are well documented, and in South East London ICB we’re very similar to the rest of the country in that we are seeing real pressure in general practice. You don’t have that massive infrastructure of support that you do in a hospital – you’re often working on your own.

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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.

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Telehealth is Health: It’s Telehealth Awareness Week

Health Populi

In April 2020, telemedicine morphed into mainstream medical care as hospitals and physicians risk-managed exposure to infection by meeting with patients, virtually, when possible. Family and general practice physicians, 80.9%, and. Urologists, 87.2%. Psychiatrists, 83%. Pediatricians, 82.9%. Cardiologists, 82%.