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Covenant Health uses telemedicine to get specialists to rural areas – and much more

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

The health system's telehealth stroke program was begun in 2012, developing the region's first comprehensive stroke center. "For the majority of Covenant Health's virtual care service lines, this virtual care technology is embedded directly into the EHR workflow.

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Parkview Health gets 70% of patients onto Epic portal, home of its telehealth programs

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"But perhaps none is more important than our electronic health record, as it serves as the backbone of our communications between providers and patients." " Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers.

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ChatGPT May Not be Ready to Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry Quite Yet, But There’s Promise for the Future

Healthcare IT Today

ChatGPT, or other AI-based language translation systems, can serve as a resource for multilingual interaction, simultaneous translation, and can help to communicate a message in a patient’s first language, reducing the language-based gaps in health care and improving the patient experience.

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3 Ways Consumers are Putting the Pressure on Health Plans

Healthcare IT Today

What is more a business problem rather than only an IT challenge, payer organizations need to address prior authorization collaboration workflows and payment processes, EHR integration, and adopt technologies like artificial intelligence, including machine learning and natural language processing, and FHIR® Standards.

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Healthcare is broken. Electronic prior authorization might be the first step in fixing it.

Redox

A 2017 Government Accountability Report estimated that PA saved CMS nearly $2 billion between 2012 and 2017 on a series of demonstration projects in just 7 states. And, when we do, CAHQ estimates we can save $417 million every year, give providers time back, improve patient experiences, and probably save a fair share of lives.

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

mHealth Insight

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians.