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Cybercriminals seek to take advantage of rapid telehealth scale-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The massive expansion of telehealth services in response to the pandemic is likely to change the way bad actors target data. A new report from Booz Allen Hamilton notes that telehealth security is a patient-safety issue, considering the potentially catastrophic risks that come with service disruptions and device failures.

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8 must-know lessons from telehealth's new normal

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected. Naturally, the first focus was on exploring the new normal of telehealth and virtual care. How to shore up telehealth cybersecurity. How to optimize RPM for physicians.

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AccessHealth uses telemedicine to boost mental health visits by 10% during COVID-19

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

COVID-19 spurred Houston-based AccessHealth to quickly scale up its telemedicine offerings, just as it did with most other health systems nationwide. Doing this enabled patients to know that a telehealth visit did not mean less quality. NextGen and Zoom for Healthcare both were proposed as telemedicine vendors. THE PROBLEM.

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Experts from across the health IT field will share insights about everything from AI and cloud computing to telemedicine and population health. Reducing the cost of care requires aligning incentives of providers, payers and patients. Telehealth helps Mayo Clinic neonatologists better treat newborns in emergencies. Collection.

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Our Homes Are Health Delivery Platforms – The New Home Health/Care at CES 2021

Health Populi

[For more context on Philips’ pivot to hospital-to-home care in the wake of pandemic, see my post here on Health Populi published on the company’s commitment to connected care across the continuum]. Health care data is the most attractive information asset on the cyber-hacker’s target list.