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Optimum Healthcare IT Acquires eCloud Managed Solutions

Healthcare IT Today

Acquisition Expands Optimum’s Cloud Services Team and Capabilities Optimum Healthcare IT , a Best in KLAS healthcare IT staffing and consulting services company, announced today that it has acquired eCloud Managed Solutions. We’re excited to welcome the eCloud team and to continue providing expert cloud services for our clients.”

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Behavioral health has a supply-demand issue. Can virtual care help?

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Hasselberg will outline the tele-behavioral health model developed at the University of Rochester, inspired by the eight-month waitlist he faced in 2012 as a practicing geriatric psychiatrist. Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News. Healthcare IT News is a HIMSS Media publication. Twitter: @kjercich.

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For value-based care, virtual options aren't always beneficial, study shows

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Based on a study of patient visits across all hospital-based outpatient clinics in Maryland from 2012 to 2021, telehealth visits did reduce the overall number of future outpatient visits within 30 days of a telehealth encounter by 14% and saved $239 in total outpatient costs per patient, the new study found. It’s more nuanced."

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Walmart hires Ochsner exec to lead healthcare push

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Prior to that, he was chief medical officer and executive VP of external operations at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana, as well as serving as medical director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Baton Rouge Clinic, AMC from 1997 to 2012. " Kat Jercich is senior editor of Healthcare IT News.

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For people with disabilities, accessing care can be 'overwhelming'

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Laura Jantos, a healthcare IT consultant and patient advocate, says that the first thing people in the industry should understand about her perspective is that "I am the person in the room as well." " "I know how hard everyone works," she said in an interview with Healthcare IT News about her upcoming HIMSS21 session.

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Featured Health IT Job: Senior Network Administrator

Healthcare IT Today

We like to regularly feature a healthcare IT job that might be of interest to readers. Today, we’re featuring the Senior Network Administrator position that was recently posted on Healthcare IT Central. This position was posted by New Directions Staffing and is in Savannah, Georgia.

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For Tempe AZ, Public Health Means Being a 20-Minute City

Healthcare IT Today

Healthcare IT Today sat down with Dr. Stephanie Deitrick, Chief Data and Analytics Officer for the City of Tempe, to learn more about their public health initiatives and how it relates to being a 20-minute city. Using GIS Technology for Healthier Living In 2012, Kent Larson described the concept of a 20-minute city in a TED Talk.