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Drugs Vs. Digital Therapeutics – A Digital Symbiosis

The Medical Futurist

Defining DTx Digital therapeutics deliver evidence-based therapeutic interventions driven by high-quality software programs to prevent, manage, or treat a medical disorder or disease. No rocket science here, just additional steps towards patient empowerment, and better partnerships between healthcare professionals and patients.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

Self-care and telemedicine for patients The options of teledermatology services, as well as self-care platforms, are soaring. Through the app, users can check pollen, mold, temperature, and humidity levels for any location, track the flare-up of eczema, and get useful pieces of advice on how to control and manage the condition for all ages.

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Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

This includes telemedicine-administered psychotherapy to address depression symptoms and cognitive behavioral therapy to potentially decrease trauma symptoms. Finally, collaborative care models where the HIV clinician, mental health professional, and case management work as a team can help improve mental health outcomes in Black women.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

And I would say we weren’t doing training on symptom management, for example. And then there was a lot of stuff on coping and symptom management. Eric 37:42 We did a massive switch to telemedicine. You know, those rooms could be managed by oncology or somebody else who needs to see people in person.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

Eric 10:03 So you’re worried that maybe if you’re doing telemedicine, you wouldn’t be able to accurately engage functional status. I don’t know how our patients manage that. So that was reassuring that pts can be accurately determined through a video visit. Kara 10:08 Yep. Kara 10:12 Yep.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

One positive change that came about was the lifting of restrictions around the use of telemedicine. Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. The pandemic was horrific in many ways. Joe: Right.