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Waiting for Healthcare to Happen

GlobalMed

What’s the longest you’ve waited for a doctor appointment? Every patient has a collection of grievances with the healthcare system. But there’s one complaint that seems to be getting worse and worse – waiting weeks or even months to see a doctor. When Patients Have to Wait Their Turn for Care. weeks after referral.

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The future of the waiting room, and how telemedicine and mobile health could change it

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, patients often had to wait for hours in hospital and doctor's office waiting rooms. After the pandemic quickly mainstreamed telehealth and prescheduling technologies, patient wait times were significantly reduced. Filling those out is what makes the wait time on your first visit so long.

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Healthcare 2030: Are We Consumers, CEOs, Health Citizens, or Castaways? 4 Scenarios On the Future of Health Care and Who We Are – Part 2

Health Populi

The four stories we generate are: Retail Health For All, starring “The Consumer” DIY Healthcare, starring “The CEO” Fragmentation Meets Bureaucracy, starring “The Castaway,” and, “One World, One Health,” starring “The Health Citizen.” looking far enough in the future from now to 2030, recognizing that we will have had two U.S.

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MAVEN Project's specialty virtual care avoids $11M in unnecessary costs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

And instead of waiting weeks or months for a specialty appointment, providers can get answers for their patients in hours. "Even if these patients can get an appointment, they often must wait months to see the specialist. The MAVEN Project has grown to serve 360 clinic sites today, from 118 in 2020.

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Easy Techniques to Improve IT Compliance & Automation in a Digital Health World

Healthcare IT Today

While there’s a lot of talk about IT compliance and automation, in this webinar we shared a wide variety of easy techniques and opportunities that were available to healthcare organizations to automate something for their organization in a compliant way. We also share where we see healthcare embracing automation today.

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Four factors underpin AI potential in health and home care

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Healthcare delivery is migrating away from hospitals. The last-ditch choices will be emergency room visit or long wait for a doctor visit. Consider changes that have taken place in recent years that will drive growth in apps for self-care. 80% of what happens to our health happens outside a medical setting.

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Bonus Features – January 21, 2024 – Number of compromised patient records in cyberattacks rose 108% in 2023, USCDI v5 draft announced, plus 18 more stories

Healthcare IT Today

Welcome to the weekly edition of Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.

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