Healthcare IT Today December 28, 2020
The idea of using digital health tools in a disciplined, trackable manner (e.g. as digital therapeutics) has been in the air for quite some time. However, I’ve seen very few concrete examples of such deployments so far. This week, though, brings the news that Kaiser Permanente has made it possible for its psychiatrists and mental health therapists to refer patients to health and wellness apps through its Epic EHR.
While the Kaiser news release doesn’t say so specifically, It’s possible Epic Is delivering this capability for Kaiser using digital health management platform Xealth. As we’ve noted previously, both Epic and Cerner are working with Xealth to manage and deploy digital health tools to patients. If there not using Xealth it...
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