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Top 10 Healthcare IT News stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

– and the wherewithal of the information systems and digital data that keep them running – been put to the test quite like it was in 2020. Ongoing interoperability challenges as testing sites, labs, providers, payers and public health agencies tried to manage fast-moving waves of new patient data.

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COVID-19 Accelerated Digital Health Investments…But It Helps to Be Bigger, Mature and Scaling

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The research was conducted among 335 respondents, which included 182 digital health companies polled between November 2020 and March 2021. The current excitement around digital health investment sometimes finds innovators being approached by investors who want to invest in them even start telling their stories to potential investor-prospects.

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Groups Recover Together sees great success treating opioid use disorder via telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Groups Recover Together is a national healthcare company for individuals with opioid use disorder. In March 2020, Groups Recover Together closed its physical locations, stood up a telehealth platform and transitioned to 100% virtual care. "We now know that 2020 was the worst year ever recorded by the CDC for drug overdoses.

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What does the 'after COVID' business look like? IT leaders weigh in

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

This is the latest in Healthcare IT News' series of feature stories on lessons learned during the COVID-19 era. Randy Gaboriault of Christiana Care Health System has been looking at healthcare lately in three distinct periods: before COVID, during COVID and after COVID. You can read the others here and here.).

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Mount Sinai eases translation in 200 languages through its Epic telehealth platform

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And Mount Sinai's patient population in New York City is very diverse – the health system needs to be prepared to deliver healthcare in more than 200 languages. The dedicated telephone lines are answered directly by interpreters, reducing the connectivity time to less than 10 seconds. " PROPOSAL.

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Top 10 telehealth stories of 2020

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

But to gain a sense of the landscape going forward, here's a refresher of Healthcare IT News' top 10 telehealth stories from 2020: Telemedicine during COVID-19: Benefits, limitations, burdens, adaptation. Epic launches new telehealth service with Twilio.

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Prescription Drug Costs In America Through the Patient Lens, via IQVIA, GoodRx and a New $2 Million Therapy

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The report is organized into four sections: medical use trends; costs and spending on meds and growth dynamics underlying the top line numbers; patient out-of-pocket costs; and that five-year forecast to 2023. This is a good news aspect of the IQVIA report, as adherence can be a win-win-win for patients, prescribers and manufacturers alike.

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