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Keeping Telemedicine HIPAA-Compliant

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Two rising trends are on a collision course: telemedicine and healthcare data breaches. As increasing numbers of healthcare organizations implement or expand telemedicine programs, and as more patients rely on text messages, email, or video to communicate with providers, personal health information (PHI) is at more risk than ever before. Now considered worth 10 times more than credit card information, as reported by Reuters, PHI is an attractive target for unscrupulous hackers. Thus, it is imperative that healthcare organizations and vendors prioritize security and compliance measures and keep telemedicine HIPAA-compliant. Read more

Rural America Faces Tough Healthcare Challenges – How a Technology-Enabled Backpack Might Just Be Part of the Answer

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Sci-Fi No More: Telemedicine Drones Are a Reality

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Thanks to telemedicine, medical drones are one giant step closer to reality. A research team in Mississippi has created three prototypes of a medical drone that can fly to the site of a natural or man-made disaster while carrying audiovisual equipment and medical supplies. Once the telemedicine drone arrives, a remote doctor can see the patient’s condition through the webcam and provide first aid directions. Read more

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Teleneurology Safe and Effective for Evaluating Headaches

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A neurologist can safely evaluate a patient’s headaches using telemedicine, according to research published recently in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). The non-inferiority study found that patients who used teleneurology had the same outcomes as patients who visited a neurologist in-person. Read more

swyMed CEO Stefano Migliorisi to Speak on ‘Telehealth and Remote Patient Monitoring’ Panel at NVTC’s 2017 Capital Health Tech Summit

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WHO: Stefano Migliorisi is the CEO and founder of swyMed. Leveraging its patented technology, swyMed expands telemedicine care to places where it was previously unavailable, powering truly mobile exceptional-quality live video encounters, at the lowest bandwidths. The company’s video telemedicine solutions, including the DOT Telemedicine Backpack, give care providers the ability to connect to doctors for real-time video telemedicine – anytime, anywhere.

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Telemedicine Diabetes Program Improves Outcomes

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Among adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, a telemedicine diabetes regimen leads to better outcomes than routine care: greater reductions in body weight, HbA1c, and number of antidiabetes medications. As described in Diabetes Care, the interventional study was conducted in Germany against a backdrop of rising rates of type 2 diabetes and growing costs of antidiabetes medicines. Read more

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Tele-Nicotine Can Help Patients Give Up Smoking

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A recent pilot study found that telemedicine is effective at helping patients reduce or give up smoking. Dubbed “tele-nicotine”, the initiative at UT Southwestern’s Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center focused on smokers in a homeless shelter. Over the course of the program, one quarter of the participants reported that they had stopped smoking entirely, and another 25 percent significantly reduced their nicotine usage. Read more