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📡 Connected health systems use technology like telehealth, remote monitoring devices, and patient portals to link patients with providers.

📡 Using these tools for ongoing communication and monitoring promotes patient engagement and early detection of problems.

📡 Patients can share symptoms, blood pressure, glucose readings, or weight from home, enabling timely interventions.

📡 Telehealth increases access, especially for those who live far from healthcare facilities or have mobility challenges.

📡 Involving patients actively with these tools supports self-management, empowerment, and shared decision-making in their care.

Limit access to their health information

📡 Limiting access undermines transparency and engagement; patients are more involved when they can see their labs, plans, and visit notes.

📡 Patient portals and access to records enhance trust and participation, not reduce it.

Prioritize in-person visits over electronic communication

📡 While in-person visits are important, exclusive reliance on them ignores the benefits of continuous, flexible electronic communication.

📡 Connected health is about blending in-person and virtual methods, not choosing only one.

Avoid involving patients in care decisions

📡 Engaging patients requires actively involving them in decision-making, not excluding them.

📡 Connected health supports shared decision-making, where patients are informed partners, not passive recipients.