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How telemedicine can help everyone have a primary care physician

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The National Academy of Medicine recently released a report urging everyone to have a primary care physician. The report went on to recommend that telehealth could have a role to play in this expansion of primary care. How can virtual care enable this?

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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. People at Philips are going out of their way to make it happen,” noting “extraordinary efforts” and teams mobilizing in the pandemic to meet the moment. What a difference 90 days makes.

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. "This was accomplished over several weeks early in the pandemic and without that, VA care teams may not have been able to maximize video use during this period of time."

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Meet Telemedicine Superstar Gigi Sorenson

GlobalMed

Before joining GlobalMed, she was the System Director of Telehealth & Community Connected Care for Northern Arizona Healthcare (NAH) in Flagstaff, Arizona. “I Two weeks later I went to the American Telemedicine Association meeting. Sorenson’s team began spotting innovative new ways to apply connected care. “We

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VA Connected Care Chief: Telehealth Is 'Going to Become Health Care'

care innovations

“This is going to become health care,” says Dr. Neil Evans of telehealth. A physician board certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, Dr. Evans also serves as Chief Officer for the Office of Connected Care (OCC) at the U.S. The VA Office of Connected Care & ‘Anywhere to Anywhere’ Initiative.

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MaineHealth turned a COVID-19 grant into a permanent telehealth program

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Similar to many health systems across the country, COVID-19 created an urgent need for MaineHealth to take care of patients at a distance to keep patients and care teams safe. MEETING THE CHALLENGE. THE PROBLEM. Click here to read the special report.

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“Your care, your way:” Learning from the Philips Future Health Index 2023

Health Populi

Roughly 2 in 5 healthcare leaders look to technology to connect with out-of-hospital settings, cloud-based tech to support access to information “everywhere,” decision support tech (such as AI in clinical settings), communications, workflow applications, and patient-facing mobile check-in and registration.