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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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79 Percent of Doctors Are Burned Out. Can Virtual Care Delivery Help?

GlobalMed

The survey of 320 PCPs and 319 specialists reveals that 79 percent of primary care physicians (PCPs) describe themselves as burned out, as do 57 percent of specialists. That’s a sharp rise from the 45 percent of doctors that reported burnout in an American Medical Association (AMA) survey in 2011.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Primary Care In February, Apple launched a new subsidiary company tasked with providing healthcare clinics to Apple employees: AC Wellness. They are rounding out this scenario with key executive hires from the healthcare industry with expertise in primary care for Medicare patients. But how easy will it actually be?

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

who is a Primary Care Physician, Professor at UCSF & coFounder at Open mHealth (follow her on Twitter @IdaSim ). Let’s just start by letting Patients use the tools of our time to share their information with their Doctors , and let Doctors use these tools to move beyond the 2000 year old office visit only model of care.