Digital Health Weekly - LinkedIn Edition

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Welcome to this week's Digital Health Weekly with a synopsis and list of curated articles that I found interesting!

Check our my?#DigitalHealthWeekly?for all?#DigitalHealth?and?#Health?related articles by visiting?digitalhealthnews.ca

Here is what I have in store for you this week:

• #FHIR & #MEDREC 30-days post #disccharge
• Five apps powering the future of at-home #HIV tests
• Read all about whether digital tools for #COPD #SelfManagement improve patient outcomes?
• #HealthEquity needs action not just words!
• New Amazon Web Services (AWS) service for #PrecisionMedicine

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This week's key articles from The Digital Health Weekly:

Implementing 30-day post discharge medication reconciliation using FHIR

"Medication errors are one of the most common patient safety events. More than 40 percent of medication errors are believed to result from inadequate reconciliation in handoffs during admission, transfer, and discharge of patients.?

While understanding and reconciling drugs after discharge from the hospital can be challenging, it is a necessity for greater efficacy of care delivery."

Five apps powering the future of at-home HIV tests

"The smartphone revolution is providing a promising tool to combat the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic. We’ve listed five HIV test apps in development that could help people carry out at-home HIV tests and prevent the spread of the infection."

Can Digital Tools for COPD Self-Management Improve Patient Outcomes?

"Emerging digital technologies allow patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) more options for managing their disease outside of the physician’s office. The ultimate goal: to improve patient outcomes." Lets find out what is possible with the use of #digitalhealth tools.

Declarations Aren’t Enough. Health Equity Needs Action

“Health equity is a buzzword everyone is using and a whole bunch of folks have chief health equity officers. But the real work is looking at the actual actions,” said Dr. Joneigh S Khaldun, MD, MPH, FACEP , chief health equity officer of CVS Health. “It’s not so much how many programs you have launched. It’s actually, how are you embedding this into your business decisions? How are, quite frankly, the incentives for the people who work at your company? How are the incentives aligned to disparity reduction goals?”

AWS launches Amazon Omics for precision medicine

"The cloud-based platform provides security, scale and the processing power needed for genomic data storage and analyses, eliminating the need for specialized infrastructure and workflows.

To enhance clinical insights at the point of care and help identify the best treatment or prevention options for patients, Amazon Web Services has launched a service that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and other AWS and partner products and services to run IT-heavy bioinformatics workflows."

Here is a special video to celebrate #IVD2022