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Cloud-based telehealth, linked with Epic EHR, helps one hospital scale up virtual care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Lee Health, a health system based in Fort Myers, Florida, has had inpatient telemedicine infrastructure in place since 2014, ambulatory telemedicine since 2015 and a direct-to-consumer system since 2019. Lee Health’s goal was to find a telemedicine system that could traverse its different verticals and that was scalable.

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Telemedicine Today: August 2016

American Well

Telemedicine Today: August 2016. Welcome to the August 2016 edition of Avizia’s Telemedicine Today! Ben Lawrence, director of nursing at Hughenden Hospital, said the telehealth service is drastically improving patient care. Telehealth Success Depends on EHR Integration. Living with Cancer in the Australian Outback.

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Marshfield Clinic boosts patient-provider satisfaction and provider efficiency with telehealth

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"Up to the start of COVID-19, almost all telehealth services were offered in facilities; the place of service was a clinic, hospital and skilled nursing facility," said Chris Meyer, director of telehealth at Marshfield Clinic Health System. "Satisfaction scores were very solid for an entirely new service launched so quickly.

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Weekender 6/22/18

HIStalk Weekender

Can you imagine if you’d been on an EHR for 70+ years and have to now rattle off 100 different medications that you’re not taking since you were born? July 2014 – co-founder Florida State Rep. October 2014 – raises $4.25 Contribute regularly as a provider CIO, IT director, or informatics nurse (anonymous or not).

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Caring for veterans: A privilege and a duty

Henry Kotula

President Obama signed a US$16 billion dollar bill to reduce wait times in 2014 to do things like hire more medical staff and open more facilities. So the VA is a national leader in telemedicine, with notable success in mental health care. It is common for nurses to say “our veteran” when discussing a patient’s care with me.

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Digital health start-ups in India: The challenge of scale

Lloyd Price

The National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) pegged the Indian Healthcare Information and Communications Technology (ICT) market at a whopping US$ 1 billion in 2014. Start-ups are bringing novel technologies such as wearable-tech, telemedicine, genomics, and artificial intelligence to the Indian healthcare system.

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

It may be too early to start imagining a world where health care is truly owned by Big Tech — you order prescription drugs with your Amazon Prime account, see a nurse at the Apple Clinic, get your benefits statements from Google, and call an Uber instead of an ambulance when you need to go to the hospital. But something is happening here.