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Healthcare organizations shouldn't just pursue new projects for their own sake, say digital health leaders from Thomas Jefferson University. Success comes from keeping track of the good they do.

The collaborative, led by former ONC deputy Dr. Jacob Reider's Alliance for Better Health, is giving more than 7,000 Bluetooth-enabled devices to help community organizations and underserved individuals.

What’s more, at Peconic Bay Medical Center, the point-of-care tech for physicians led to a 13.5% boost in charge codes captured and a whopping 490% jump in patient satisfaction.

Nemours Children’s Health System uses multiple technologies to social distance, reduce contact and save PPE.

Key use cases for TeamViewer Pilot include real time knowledge transfer and fast remote support for hospitals and medical facilities.

"We see an enormous opportunity to enhance disease tracking for improved population health during the COVID-19 pandemic," said Scripps Research Translational Institute's Dr. Eric Topol.

The head of the pediatric practice describes the choice to implement telemedicine as a way to improve patient experience – a choice that turned out to be a valuable investment as coronavirus spread.

TigerTouch aims to simplify telemedicine for patients by offering video, voice and text messaging via smartphone.

AT&T Business' Clint Cetti gives a rundown of new health technologies that could benefit from increased capacity and speed, as well as some key considerations for health systems planning to implement the next-generation network.

The two tech giants' unprecedented partnership looks to engage as many users in disease tracing and prevention efforts as possible while tearing down the data silos of their respective smartphone platforms.