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Saving Money, Saving Lives: Replacing Emergency Air Transport with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When a medical emergency hits – say, a car accident or a heart attack – no one’s first concern should be about the price tag attached to the ambulance or medical air transport. But the sad truth is that many patients will avoid requesting emergency transportation because they fear the cost. International flights back to the U.S.

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Health IT implementation best practices

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

From front line care delivery, including triage, clinical decision support and patient experience to back-office operations, such as billing and revenue cycle, algorithms and emerging technologies are already proving their value. Healthcare innovation solving problems. by September 05, 2018. Innovation is everywhere in healthcare right now.

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Broadband is the Achilles' heel of telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Consider a soccer-playing kid who injures a foot and goes to the emergency room. Their fight is your flight! Region Tag: Global Edition. The ER doctor sends an email note via telehealth to the parents' home and later does a Zoom session to show huge X-ray files. Likely the email gets delivered immediately.