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Integrated EHR enables shift to virtual post-discharge follow-up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The research team studied nearly 250,000 hospital discharges in patients with diabetes from 2005 to 2011. From 2006 to 2010, they explained, an integrated delivery system staggered implementation of an integrated EHR across 17 hospitals. THE LARGER TREND. ON THE RECORD.

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Stephen Clark, CIO, Albemarle Health, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

Being the resident MU expert Telepsychiatry HIE Since becoming CIO at Albemarle Health in 2005, Stephen Clark has made great strides in helping to advance the organization. Telepsychiatry HIE. We’ve been positioned to expand and develop a community-based HIE, but it’s going to take an investment to continue to do so.

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Kno2’s Unique Perspective on Why TEFCA is Different as They Pursue QHIN Designation

Healthcare IT Today

As we approach 2023 it is amazing that interoperability, true broad-based connectivity between healthcare systems, looks like the Verizon heatmap back in 2005 when there was as much white on the map as there was red. Much like AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile worked diligently to provide coverage to everyone in the U.S.,