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VA seeing substantial growth in telehealth, key patient engagement tools

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

There's the massive electronic health record modernization , of course, but also everything from a new National Artificial Intelligence Institute to an Apple Health Records rollout to a project focused on tablet-based telehealth. Indeed, telehealth continues to be a major priority for the VA. In FY19, VA provided more than 2.6

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

Predictive analytics and other AI may however be relevant to patient safety by gathering data from the patient’s EHR (and heaven help us one day from data sets of other systems) to predict both minor and major preventable adverse events. Improving the electronic medical record (EHR).

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Intelerad Acquires Life Image, Establishing the Clear Medical Image Exchange Market Leader and Path to a Global Open Image Exchange Network

Healthcare IT Today

Founded in 2008, Life Image has created a digital platform using industry-leading interoperability standards to connect 13,000 facilities with more than 160,000 U.S. providers and 58,000 global clinics.

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Mississippi provider org's use of telehealth enables huge turnaround during the pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The last computers purchased across the agency were acquired in 2008. "Prior to telehealth services, this has constantly created problems for maintaining a substantive caseload in each of these seven counties and to adequately provide services," Brooks added. THE PROBLEM. " PROPOSAL. MEETING THE CHALLENGE.

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Weekender 7/6/18

HIStalk Weekender

For those of us out in the field working with telehealth and its various service lines, we know it is a success. Telehealth and telemedicine isn’t a narrow service for treating common complaints and sniffly noses as the writer only references. Readers Write: EHRs Have Not Reduced Paper Usage Yet. Michelle Hager ). Jayne 7/2/18.

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Electronic Prescribing for Controlled Substances Set to Take Off

Healthcare IT Today

History of EPCS Kyle Zebley, head of public policy American Telemedicine Association (ATA) , says that Congress called on the DEA to implement a policy for a special controlled substance registration process in 2008. This requirement languished for the past 15 years, probably because the DEA had a multitude of competing priorities.