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LifeOmic, a healthcare technology company powering precision health with its end-to-end software solution, the LifeOmic Platform, today announced the launch of its Patient Mobile App. LifeOmic’s Patient Mobile App enables the two-way connection between the healthcare team and patient. With the LifeOmic Patient Mobile App, healthcare providers have access to a highly configurable solution that integrates directly into their existingworkflows to meet
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Exploring The Value of Metaverse Use Cases in Life Sciences
What once seemed like science fiction, interacting with people across the world has become the new normal. While we have become increasingly accustomed to video calls and instant communication in recent years, forays into virtual worlds and extended realities are still relatively novel.
In a post-Covid world, it seems strange to think that video conferences and calls were not the norm only three years ago. But the value created by virtual interactions during the last several years has
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Children’s Wisconsin Using Xealth to Digitally Engage Patients and Families
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- Xealth announced that Children’s Wisconsin, Wisconsin’s only independent healthcare system dedicated solely to the health and well-being of children, is using Xealth’s digital health platform system-wide to integrate patient education and custom content into care team workflows.
- The integration enables the faster and easier distribution of consistent communications across locations, providing patients and their families with timely access to reliable
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Indegene Launches Metaverse Capabilities for Life Sciences Companies
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- Indegene, a digital-first, life sciences commercialization company launches metaverse capabilities to support life sciences organizations with a variety of use cases, including health care provider (HCP) interactions, HCP education, and patient education.
- Indegene’s domain expertise will provide life sciences organizations a foundation for navigating the complexity of this emerging technology and the flexibility to create tailored virtual worlds. Using these, life
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Enhancing Physical Therapy With Artificial Intelligence
In 2014, Stephen Hawking cautioned that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate..”
Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced rapidly in recent years, with its impressive power and capacity to change so many areas of human life. It continues to become more embedded in the lives of average consumers. While AI might not yet be the end of humanity as we know it, we’re
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Q/A: Podimetrics CEO Talks Preventing Diabetic Amputations
Diabetes prevention is one of the biggest challenges in the healthcare industry as more than 37 million Americans (11.3% of the population) suffer from this debilitating chronic disease. As we close the year out, we sat down with Jon Bloom, MD, CEO and Co-founder of diabetic healthcare tech company Podimetrics to learn how the industry and his company are working to implement health equity change to serve patients living with advanced diabetes. The company’s FDA-cleared SmartMat provides a
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KLAS: Clinical Decision Support Point-of-Care Reference 2022
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- CDS reference tools enable clinical users to follow standard treatment recommendations and more quickly and confidently make clinical decisions. However, tools that lack strong content, searchability, and EMR integration are not efficient for point-of-care workflows and can frustrate users, especially those already experiencing burnout.
- To understand the customer experience and how each solution is being adopted, a new report by KLAS draws on feedback from a
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WebMD Strikes Deal with Patient Communications Platform Artera
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- Today, WebMD and patient communications platform provider Artera (formerly WELL Health) announced data integration that will enable providers (health systems and hospitals) to digitally communicate and engage patients on important education and information about medication affordability programs.
- The collaboration reduces the cost of care while also improving patient adherence to prescriptions -- which is a key challenge for providers -- by connecting with
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Should I Get Another Booster? How Doctors Can Help Patients Navigate the Next Phase of COVID-19
The general consensus is that COVID-19 in some form is here to stay. As people come to terms with this reality, primary care providers may be getting more questions from patients – especially older and immunocompromised ones – asking for advice on how to handle different situations. Should I get another booster? Can I start traveling? Is it OK to go to a wedding next weekend? How cautious do I need to be in social settings?
The answers to these questions aren’t always clear. A lot depends on
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Vermont State Launches Public Health Initiative for Infectious Disease Response
What You Should Know:
- The Vermont Department of Health has launched a first-of-a-kind program to support healthcare professionals with timely information on disease diagnosis, testing, treatment and patient education resources — improving public health response statewide. The program is powered by a partnership with VisualDx and is available to Vermont healthcare professionals.
- The Clinician Support Initiative provides access to a vast collection of images and clinical information
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