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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices. electrocardiogram) and would pose safety risks to patients if they malfunctioned.

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Problem Representation

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Who is the patient? Also: Exclude extraneous information – Example: In a patient presenting with fever, cough, and shortness of breath, their history of chronic knee osteoarthritis does not belong in the PR. One day later the patient also develops a rash. 2018;33(11):2010-2014. He lives with his wife and 2 cats.

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Rural-urban differences in continuity of primary care among persons with prediabetes [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

This study is a retrospective cohort analysis of electronic health records of patients from Geisinger Health System. We used fractional logistic regression models controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, baseline HbA1c, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and BMI. The majority of patients are female (54.5% rural; 57% urban).