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![Tech Talk: CMS boosts telehealth coverage-7074 Tech Talk: CMS boosts telehealth coverage-7074](/images/listing_research.jpg)
Tech Talk: CMS boosts telehealth coverage
On April 5, the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized new policies that increase Medicare Advantage plan choices and benefits, including the option to expand telehealth benefits.
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![WHO drafts global digital health strategy-7067 WHO drafts global digital health strategy-7067](/images/listing_research.jpg)
WHO drafts global digital health strategy
The World Health Organization recently posted a global strategy on digital health "to promote healthy lives and wellbeing for everyone, everywhere, at all ages."
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![Tech Talk: Most mental health apps not supported by evidence-7050 Tech Talk: Most mental health apps not supported by evidence-7050](/images/listing_research.jpg)
Tech Talk: Most mental health apps not supported by evidence
On March 22, 2019, npj Digital Medicine, a Nature journal, published a revelatory study, "Using science to sell apps: Evaluation of mental health app store quality claims."
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![Tech Talk: New hearing aid embeds fall detection and alerts-7023 Tech Talk: New hearing aid embeds fall detection and alerts-7023](/images/listing_research.jpg)
Tech Talk: New hearing aid embeds fall detection and alerts
Starkey Hearing Technologies unveiled a fall detection and alert capability for its LivioAI "Healthable"TM hearing aid at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, and rolled it out internationally on February 25.
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![TechTalk: Take-homes from CES 2019-6992 TechTalk: Take-homes from CES 2019-6992](/images/listing_research.jpg)
TechTalk: Take-homes from CES 2019
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), held at the Las Vegas Convention Center in January, featured more than 1,000 speakers and 4,500 exhibitors, and was attended by more than 188,000 visitors.
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![Tech Talk: Measuring steps after surgery may predict hospital stay-6967 Tech Talk: Measuring steps after surgery may predict hospital stay-6967](/images/listing_research.jpg)
Tech Talk: Measuring steps after surgery may predict hospital stay
A study of 100 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles showed that each step taken towards 1,000 steps the day after surgery resulted in significantly lower odds of a prolonged hospital stay.
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