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Controlling Prison Healthcare Costs with Telemedicine

GlobalMed

When you think of a typical telemedicine visit, you might picture a patient in a rural town communicating with a big-city specialist, or a primary care provider triaging with an emergency room department. But there’s another, less visible realm where telemedicine has transformed costing savings and patient outcomes: correctional facilities.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

A recent study published in the American Journal of Managed Care found that provider use of a shared inpatient-outpatient electronic health record was associated with a shift toward follow-up delivered through a combination of telemedicine and outpatient laboratory tests, with no differences in 30-day emergency department visits.

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From Tele-HELP to telehealth

CiscoHealth

Established in 2006, Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres is a healthcare network based in the United Arab Emirates. CEO, Andre Daoud, realized that Medcare needed to transition to full-time telemedicine and partnered with Cisco to develop a beta version of the teleMEDCARE platform in just six days.

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A look back on 2020: reshaping the healthcare IT landscape

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

For example, technology has advanced to support new methods of delivering care such as evolving telemedicine efforts. Yet, it took the desperation associated with a pandemic to bond like-minded team members to collaborate in order for telemedicine to become an innovative mainstay in the delivery of patient care.

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ISG to Publish Report on Healthcare Digital Services

Digital Health Global

The report will cover companies offering services that help healthcare providers and insurance organizations transform their operations to meet new requirements, improve interoperability, and adapt to growing telemedicine and value-based care needs. Founded in 2006, and based in Stamford, Conn.,

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From Tele-HELP to telehealth

CiscoHealth

Established in 2006, Medcare Hospitals & Medical Centres is a healthcare network based in the United Arab Emirates. CEO, Andre Daoud, realized that Medcare needed to transition to full-time telemedicine and partnered with Cisco to develop a beta version of the teleMEDCARE platform in just six days.

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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. . The program ultimately saved the TDCJ $780 million over 14 years.