In the midst of rapidly advancing technologies in healthcare, patients and clinicians are often overwhelmed with technologies that are incessantly marketed to them to improve care quality and patient satisfaction. The most notable technology currently being telemedicine for remote visits. Beyond telemedicine, a different set of telehealth technologies are gaining momentum focused on things such …
read moreAs a domain, healthcare is essentially a very much human-centered field, whether it is the patient or the clinician – both groups have different needs and requirements. Yet, for the longest time, healthcare has been delivered void of human-centered approach. Patients needs and desires are unmet or not considered; provider needs are overlooked for administrative …
read moreTelemedicine remains one of the much-anticipated modalities of care to improve doctor-patient interaction offering ease, convenience, and comfort of care right from the patient’s home. Adoption remains inconsistent across the nation, yet, even in states with no parity laws, healthcare organizations continue to offer telemedicine as a self-pay service. For healthcare organizations, clinicians, and patients, …
read moreA new paradigm in healthcare focuses improving the quality of care both within the hospital and within residential setting. Coupled with the fact patients are encouraged to actively play a part in their healthcare, the quality of care is improved with increased patient satisfaction. Perhaps even strengthening the patient-doctor connection. The golden egg is creating ….
read moreDocToDoor has partnered with Clínica de la Asunción of Gipuzkoa, Spain to begin pilot programs with Total Knee Replacement (TKR) patients. As a flexible solution, DocToDoor provides means to manage, care for, and engage patients in post-op, chronic care, and primary care. The pilot will provide patients with Andriod and iOS DocToDoor Patient app with …
read moreThe process of transforming and making healthcare smarter has led to innovations with numerous startups being heralded every year for their cutting edge solutions and breakthrough in healthcare. Often, the solutions created by startups or established enterprise often overlook the barriers faced by small independent healthcare organizations. Enterprises and startups alike fervently reach out to …
read moreThe buzz words such as patient engagement and population health have gained mass appeal in the recent years leading to apparently a new paradigm within digital health. What has emerged under the umbrella of patient engagement has been the patient portals provided by EMR vendors as an introductory offering for patients and providers. Patients can …
read moreInnovation In the current stage of digital health arena, new innovations are abound promising a great future in the coming 5-10 years. Buzz words such as ‘Internet of Things (IoT)’, ‘patient engagement’, big ‘data’ and plethora of other words keep being thrown around in the industry to indicate the grand sweeping changes in healthcare. From …
read moreInnovation in digital health has been our passion for many years. The culmination of our knowledge and experience resulted in doctodoor. We envisioned and created doctodoor as a platform for better patient engagement, greater accountability, and ease of use. However, seeing shortfalls in telemedicine and current mHealth platforms, we took doctodoor event further.. doctodoor 2.0 …
read moreDocToDoor has been selected by the India-Spain Bilateral Cooperation Program for deploying DocToDoor under the SMART Cities program in India and Spain. Under this Program, Global Innovation Technology Alliance (GITA), a joint venture of Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) & Department of Science and Technology (DST), and Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI) of …
read more2015 brought some interesting developments for mHealth – the introduction of Medicare’s Chronic Care Management (CCM) program with reimbursement for non-face-to-face care, the inception of Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR) in November of 2015, increasing focus on personalized medicine & population health, and increasing presence of health data exchange & mHealth marketplace vendors. Chronic …
read moreAs Medicare (cms.gov) continues to expand their drive for patient-centered care, they have expanded now to include Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement (CJR). Knee and hip replacement procedures remain one of the most commonly performed surgeries in United States with over million procedures performed annually (CDC Inpatient Surgery Data). With such commonality of the procedures, …
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