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Fighting Fake COVID-19 Health News Through Patient Engagement

Fighting Fake COVID-19 Health News Through Patient Engagement

Imagine 93 million Americans searching for medical and health information online, where some of it is patently wrong, but having no way of knowing what to believe. Health misinformation has fast become a threat to compliance with health treatments, to adoption of response efforts in epidemics, and to trust between health providers and their patients. Not a 2020 phenomenon at all, the spread of false health information has gone unchecked for over a decade, with social media adding ...
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Deploying Telehealth for COVID-19

Deploying Telehealth for COVID-19

In the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, the disease now known as COVID-19, there’s a clear and present danger for community transmission. Cases of COVID-19 in the United States are, for now, still imported from travelers from Wuhan. And while the “virus is NOT currently spreading in the community in the United States,” we are not immune from the possibility. With almost 76,769 confirmed cases around the world and over 2,239 deaths in China where the novel coronaviru...
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5 Healthcare Trends in 2020

5 Healthcare Trends in 2020

 With 2019 behind us, the era of “everything online” in healthcare enters a decade where its convenience and access will spur more innovative care delivery models. The ease of automation when it comes to communications, data, and processes, has influenced patients, healthcare providers and payers to the point that they will look more and more to smarter healthcare solutions.   Patients will expect greater access to care anytime, anywhere.  Providers will contin...
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Telehealth’s Top 3 Growth Areas In 2019

Telehealth’s Top 3 Growth Areas In 2019

When healthcare meets technology, of a number of things, it means access to care in a cost-effective way. The healthcare space, in particular, has seen a large wave of consumer-driven care delivery models steered by technology  such as telehealth. In 2019, telehealth solutions made huge leaps when it came to improving patient experience, ensuring patient safety, and delivering value-based care. Here are the top three categories of telehealth solutions that trended in 2019, and will con...
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Supporting Healthy Communities Through Telehealth

Supporting Healthy Communities Through Telehealth

During the recent National Health IT Week (September 23 to 27),  the need to expand access to telehealth services was underscored as a critical component of supporting healthy communities.  Among the points of engagement for the nationwide action week was demonstrating the power of IT to transform health in the U.S. and around the globe. Aside from the need to expand access to broadband and telehealth, other actionable outcomes include advancing public and population, modernizing ...
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Patient Communication vs Patient Engagement

Patient Communication vs Patient Engagement

Relationships are built on communication and engagement. To engage, you must communicate. To communicate, you must engage. In doctor-patient relationship, this is not a question of the “chicken or the egg.”  They are both essential in a patient-centered care. The patient can be communicating but not really engaged in his healthcare, or can be engaged but not truly communicating. As the healthcare system is evolving, it does, and will, require increasing clinical produc...
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Communicating Care Through Text Messaging

Communicating Care Through Text Messaging

As patient experience not only defines quality of healthcare and becomes a core component, efforts will increase dramatically to better engage patients. So healthcare providers will be taking advantage of the wealth of new technology to improve care and engage patients through connected care and telehealth solutions. But these patient engagement solutions must ensure patient safety. And patient safety means confidence of the patient for the security and privacy of their data, information, a...
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How a Patient Engagement Platform Supports PTSD Treatment

How a Patient Engagement Platform Supports PTSD Treatment

By: Howard Rosen, LifeWIRE CEO      and William D. Harms, LifeWIRE Director of ResearchPost Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is quite unique. It is unique because it isn’t a single defined malady such as a ruptured organ, but instead a combination of symptoms (affectations) uniquely intertwined in each of its victims.  The exact combination for each individual comes from a much larger list of possible symptoms, and each may be manifest in different combination...
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Beyond Rx, What Doctors Say About PTSD

Beyond Rx, What Doctors Say About PTSD

Any traumatic experience from a physical or sexual assault, abuse, accident, disaster, or other serious events, can cause Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).  Studies show that suicide risk is higher with those suffering from PTSD, making effective treatment key to management and recovery. According to the Mayo Clinic, the primary treatment for PTSD is psychotherapy, as well as medication. Psychotherapy - or “talk therapy” - in various types can help the individuals...
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Telehealth Check-Up in the Continuum of Care

Telehealth Check-Up in the Continuum of Care

How have information and communication technologies, such as online, digital and mobile devices, figured in the wider spectrum of patient care?  The use of these technologies to access and support health care services, also known interchangeably as telehealth, digital health, or mhealth depending on the device, draws strength from the power of communication and information. These serve patients and clinicians differently but with a unified objective, to provide better and more eff...
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