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Correctional Healthcare Is Changing and Here’s Why

GlobalMed

From 2010 to 2018, they saw a ten-fold increase in virtual primary care encounters and a 111% increase in telemedicine specialty encounters. CCHCS also expanded specialist access from 30 specialists in 4 locations in 2006 to 200 specialists in 22 locations by 2018. . Improved Care. Related Topics.

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UMass Memorial Health proves RPM virtual sitting is as effective as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The health system's experienced caregivers include experts in behavioral health, cancer, cardiology, children and women's services, heart and vascular care, neurology, pulmonology and surgery. For years, UMass Memorial Health has leveraged technology as a means of augmenting in-person care at the bedside. THE PROBLEM.

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A hospital without patients

Henry Kotula

Mercy Virtual is arguably the world’s most advanced example of something gaining momentum in the health care world: A virtual hospital, where specialists remotely care for patients at a distance. The virtual care center started as an office in Mercy’s flagship St. The patients are elsewhere.

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