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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"We already had developed a virtual personal protective equipment model in our special pathogen unit of our Medical ICU, or iSOCOMS," said Dr. Karen Rheuban, cofounder and director of the Center for Telehealth and medical director of telemedicine at the University of Virginia Health System.

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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. THE PROBLEM. USING FCC AWARD FUNDS.

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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

" Parkview Health made strategic moves in 2012 to implement and integrate Epic as its EHR for all hospitals and providers. "Parkview Health was able to retain nearly 70% of our standard care visits with patients by using video services within our EHR and patient portal, even as the physical offices were closed.

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In the senior care market, Aging 2.0 has become a very big deal

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Begun in 2012 through the efforts of Katy Fike and Stephen Johnston. We are already integrated with your EHR and make it easy to configure and automate getting information to relevant stakeholders." category tags: senior living , healthcare , Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) , Telehealth-RPM-Virtual Visits-Voice Health

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Five Digital Health Imperatives for Patient Safety

The Digital Health Corner

In a post I wrote here in 2012, I discussed some of the implications of low health literacy. 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.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

She has also been focused on improving telehealth services and implementing remote patient monitoring for the most vulnerable and underserved patients. Department of Veterans Affairs' effort to modernize its IT systems and create an interoperable EHR shared among VA, the Department of Defense, the U.S. hardest hit by the pandemic.

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Healthcare Consolidation: Opportunities for Digital Health Technology

The Digital Health Corner

The costs for EHR and other technology acquisition and maintenance are too costly for smaller hospitals, and pressures of decreased payment rates are increasing on the provider side. This often results in the maintenance of multiple EHR vendors for inpatient systems and even more if one includes outpatient setting.