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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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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. But what about after the public health emergency?

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Stay Calm In Your Head(space) – An Update on Meditation-As-Medicine

Health Populi

These two apps fall into what HealthXL characterizes as mindfulness and meditation apps in the larger behavioral and mental health digital ecosystem, shown in their chart here. ” The wellness category — and particularly, the ability to scale mental health services via digital technology — is promising.

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HIMSS names 2021 Changemaker Award winners

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

President, Emirates Nursing Association. Al Mahri is also group chief nursing officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, or "SEHA," where she was the first senior nursing leader to identify the importance of the nursing informatics specialty. They are: Aysha Al Mahri. Abu Dhabi, UAE. Sue Feldman, RN.

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6 challenges healthtech can help us tackle – Pt.2

Digital Health Global

When discussing healthcare waiting lists and clinicians’ shortages the public often focuses mainly on a need to increase the supply of clinicians, nurses and other allied healthcare practitioners. Two forms in which telehealth presents itself are teleconsultations and remote monitoring devices. 2021 [6] Regina M.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

The health system provides employees opportunities to take part in global mission trips, and its wellness program offers incentives for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.). For two consecutive years, the health system was named among the Best Places to Work in Illinois.