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What is Digital Therapeutics

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Impacts of Information Technology on Patient Care and Empowerment
A health discipline and treatment option that utilizes a digital and often online health technologies to treat a medical or psychological condition.
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Improving Patient Care With Telemedicine Technology
Edward T. Chen (University of Massachusetts – Lowell, USA)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0047-7.ch001
Abstract
With the spread of telecommunications infrastructure, telemedicine has attracted attention from both healthcare and IT industries. Telemedicine has shown a potential to improve health maintenance, enhancement, as well as healthcare cost reduction. Many governments are boosting telemedicine applications through regulations. The purpose of this chapter is to review the major telemedicine technologies—telemedicine, wearable devices, and emerging innovative health equipment—and current issues of the impact on the patient care in the healthcare industry, the business opportunities, and threats from telemedicine.
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