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Smartphone tools can help improve health equity by improving care access and empowering patients to collect and transmit their own data via wearables, says Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine.
"We are at a tipping point where technology can help disrupt what used to only occur within doctors' offices and enable people to get access to affordable and accessible guidance," says the health system's chief digital engagement officer.
The promise of hospital-at-home in the U.S. and improving clinical informatics in the MENA region, as told by Dr. Anwar Jebran, clinical informatics fellow at UI Health and member of the HIMSS Physician Committee.
The Victorian Heart Hospital has adopted a role-based messaging platform provided by FiveP.
Houston Fire Department Associate Medical Director Michael Gonzalez talks essential prehospital management of EMS patients boosted by telemedicine technologies.
With more than 750 WiFi-enabled tablets funded by the FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program, the partners aim to increase affordable broadband access and provide psychosocial oncology care to the underserved.
The goal was to remove unnecessary barriers patients encountered when seeking answers and do so in a way that empowered the clinical team to provide the best care experience possible.
About 95% of accounts sent via secure text are paid within 14 days at the southern provider. Mobile pay also has decreased manual work for the patient accounts team by five hours per week, or 260 hours per year.
It seeks to support and accelerate the development of personalised healthcare and drug discovery.