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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Covenant Health began its journey with telehealth a decade prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and served as a pioneer in the region in virtual care. The health system's telehealth stroke program was begun in 2012, developing the region's first comprehensive stroke center.

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FCC and other awards helped enable permanent telehealth policy changes in Virginia

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"In addition, in 2012, UVA Health launched a remote patient monitoring program to improve patient compliance and clinical outcomes, and to reduce hospital readmissions, hospital length of stay and emergency department visits. "We procured an enterprise-wide solution integrated into our Epic EHR," Rheuban said.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Immunization administration was a key workflow within the EHR; therefore, sharing that to the registry automatically seems like a no-brainer to reduce the burden on providers. Perhaps more importantly, Meaningful Use spurred adoption on the provider side, requiring that providers use certified EHRs to receive Medicare and Medicaid funds.

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How Do Patient Portals and Personal Health Records Differ?

Lloyd Price

TETHERED PERSONAL HEALTH RECORDS VERSUS PATIENT PORTALS A tethered PHR, as defined by the ONC, is an online interface tied to an EHR with which patients may view and sometimes interact with their health data. A patient may have one portal for their primary care physician, as well as two more for their optometrist and dermatologist.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016. As a 73-bed acute care hospital, Bailey Medical Center was recognized with Ardent Healthcare’s Ardent Cup as an outstanding facility in four times from 2012 to 2017, and it earned a five-star CMS rating in 2017.

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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.

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Payer, provider trends to watch in 2019

Henry Kotula

Intermountain Healthcare, a primary stakeholder, invested $12 million in the initiative. Early efforts include experimental EHR technologies , value-based payments for even more population health management programs and wraparound services. Doubling down on digital. “Hospitals can do that today.”