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

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers and clinicians have pointed to behavioral health as a particularly effective use case for telehealth and virtual care. The program focused on supporting primary care doctors in managing older adults with mental illness. But what about after the public health emergency?

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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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A Fresh Look at Telehealth Patient Demographics in 2019

Enzyme Health

Recent patient surveys shed light on who is using telemedicine, why they are using it, and how benefits and barriers to telehealth use are rapidly shifting as adoption grows. We’ve compiled the latest information about what telehealth patients look like in 2019, and their makeup might surprise you. Benefits of Telemedicine to Patients.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

To this we must also factor in an issue of inefficiency of healthcare delivery, consisting in poor scheduling practices, underutilized resources, inadequate coordination of care. Healthtech can play a fundamental role in the enhancement of preventative care, as discussed previously. 2021 [6] Regina M.

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How Millennials are Reshaping the Entire Healthcare Sector

Advanced Medical Reviews

The basic reasons for rethinking IT strategy for millennial workers and patients may also motivate overhauls of care delivery, public relations and other nontechnical departments. These reasons include: The desire for instant access, which is manifested in preferences for same-day appointments, telehealth services and short wait times.

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Brigham and Women’s Primary Practice Pilots New Mobile App to Drive Patient Engagement & Collaborative Care

Consumer eHealth Engagement

According to the CDC website, “as of 2012, about half of all adults—117 million people—have one or more chronic health conditions. Care Collaboration for Hypertensive Patients. She can monitor progress towards her goal and send a secure message to her nurse.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Boston Business Journal named the hospital a Best Place to Work in 2012, 2014 and 2016.