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The future of telehealth: informatics, scalability and interoperability

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The COVID-19 pandemic pushed telehealth into the spotlight with exponential adoption, helping to prove its value. The healthcare industry learned that, with the right solutions, care can extend outside hospital walls and be conducted anywhere.

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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. We had to reinvent how to engage, monitor, and treat” patients with new approaches both in and outside the acute care setting. What a difference 90 days makes.

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Intermountain Healthcare: Optimizing the Provider Experience Through Telehealth Interoperability

American Well

In part one of our interview with Intermountain Healthcare, we discussed the health system’s approach to telehealth interoperability from the perspective of the patient. Did you launch Connect Care with any type of electronic medical record (EMR) integration in place? What was the provider response?

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Intermountain Healthcare: Optimizing the Patient Experience Through Telehealth Interoperability

American Well

Intermountain Healthcare, a not-for-profit integrated health system headquartered in Utah, has built a robust virtual health program that includes Connect Care , its direct-to-consumer telehealth service and Connect Care Pro , its acute care program.

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HIMSS21 tech news: Salesforce Health Cloud innovations; Vivify telehealth scheduling

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"These new care from anywhere innovations ensure that we continue this digital transformation in healthcare and empower providers, payers, care coordinators and pharmaceutical companies to deliver care for patients wherever they are," he added. Vivify Health's remote care enhancements.

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VA, Verizon to offer new telehealth access for veterans

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Verizon are teaming up to offer Veterans who are customers of the telecommunications giant unlimited access to department's VA Video Connect telehealth app. Telehealth is set for a major expansion in the U.S. Telehealth is set for a major expansion in the U.S. WHY IT MATTERS.

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A guide to telehealth vendors in the age of COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth always has been a key pillar of technology-enabled care delivery that helps hospitals, health systems and group practices deliver quality care at a distance – and often also gain efficiencies, improve patient and provider satisfaction and save costs. Check back for additions in the days and weeks ahead.