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How Philips Has Pivoted In the COVID-19 Pandemic: Connected Care From Hospital to Home

Health Populi

I was scheduled to meet with Roy Jakobs, Chief Business Leader of Connected Care at Philips, at HIMSS in Orlando on 9th March 2020. We had to reinvent how to engage, monitor, and treat” patients with new approaches both in and outside the acute care setting. What a difference 90 days makes. equipment and hardware). “We

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2019: Healthcare IT gains new ground

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. As we look back on 2019, it's worth remembering how far the industry has traveled to get here. -- Mike Miliard, Editor. by Healthcare IT News November 22, 2019. by November 18, 2019. by September 30, 2019. by September 01, 2019.

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Solving the Disconnections in Connected Care

GlobalMed

Inpatient adoption has risen from 54 percent in 2014 to 85 percent in 2019 according to Definitive Healthcare’s 2019 Inpatient Telehealth Study. Any organization that’s serious about improving their outcomes with telemedicine owes it to their patients to ensure their connected care is truly connected.

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VA Connected Care Chief: Telehealth Is 'Going to Become Health Care'

care innovations

“This is going to become health care,” says Dr. Neil Evans of telehealth. A physician board certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics, Dr. Evans also serves as Chief Officer for the Office of Connected Care (OCC) at the U.S. The VA Office of Connected Care & ‘Anywhere to Anywhere’ Initiative.

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April 2019 Telemedicine News

Enzyme Health

The lawsuit highlights a national battle between ocular telehealth companies and the 11 states where connected care eye exams are banned. Visibly, a Chicago-based company that offers direct-to-consumer online eye exams, is taking the state of Indiana to court over the state’s ban of ocular telemedicine.

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How the VA laid the groundwork for a pandemic-fueled telehealth spike

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Many of those patients, however, face mobility hurdles and other challenges that can make it difficult to reach in-person care. As Evans explained, VA video-to-home telehealth encounters increased by 3,147% from 294,847 encounters in fiscal year 2019 to 9,575,958 encounters in fiscal year 2021. Also in 2021, VA provided more than 2.3

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8 Key Telehealth Partnerships and What to Expect in 2019

Enzyme Health

Explore some of the implications for patients and telemedicine providers and find out what we can expect in 2019. And if 2018 was any indication of momentum, the partnerships won’t be slowing down in 2019. As the telehealth industry grows, mobile phone and software giants are finding ways to incorporate their technology into the field.