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RPM strategies for moving from discharge to hospital-at-home care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A variety of factors have given rise to more focus on hospital-at-home – the pandemic, persistent staffing shortages, rising costs, patient complications, such as delirium – leading CMS to increase financial incentives to provide care at home without reducing quality or access. This is at the core of population health.

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'Telehealth titans' discuss cost-savings of virtual care, describe the hospital of the future

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In a panel this past week at the HIMSS Connected Health Conference in Boston, Dr. John Halamka, international healthcare innovation professor at Harvard Medical School, and four other telehealth experts tried to arrive at a definition of just what telehealth is. Just like the EHR is a tool. "It's a tool.